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Ash Furrow

Personal blog · ashfurrow.comprogrammingcareer

Ash Furrow's personal blog at ashfurrow.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “Mastodon.technology Shutdown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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80mentions?
37HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2012

Compassionate Software Developer

Most-linked posts?

  1. Mastodon.technology Shutdown
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
  2. Migrating from Cloudflare
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-29
  3. Advice for Junior Developers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01
  4. Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Objective-C
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-03
  5. Building Compassionate Software
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-09
  6. Airbnb and React Native Expectations
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. rvz · 2022-12-18
    > There’s another exodus of twitter users, and most servers are run by individuals Again, Expecting non-techies to self-host their own instances after several of them falling over due to light usage and signups is quite wishful thinking and reiterates the need for users to heavily rely on more centralized instances to on board users. Well all know what happened to mastodon.technology which was run by an individual.…

    Comment linking /blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

    on “Paul Graham is leaving Twitter”
  2. freosam · 2022-10-07

    Submitted Mastodon.technology Shutdown as a story · 630 points

    HN discussion
  3. kixiQu · 2022-11-14
    > Large central services give reasonable stability as to not easily shut down altogether, having your account and all content removed. On Mastodon, this is a constant threat. I'd be interested to see the halflife of centralized services generally to be able to tease out the patterns in a way less vulnerable to survivorship bias. I recognize that invoking Google's product shutdowns is like the free space on the HN co…

    Comment linking /blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

    on “Scaling Mastodon is impossible”
  4. skellertor · 2018-05-16

    Submitted JavaScript is Good, Actually as a story · 345 points

    HN discussion
  5. gemma · 2018-10-14
    https://mastodon.technology is chock full of geeks, so the local timeline is all people's hacks and bugs and side projects. It's one of the older instances, and it's maintained by this guy: https://ashfurrow.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary”
  6. AshFurrow · 2012-03-06

    Submitted Why Objective-C is Hard as a story · 209 points

    HN discussion
  7. esperent · 2022-11-01
    I find it difficult to get my head around mastodon and federated messaging in general. It seems like a lot of effort to go to when all I want is a social messaging app. I want to make an account once and be able to message anyone else on whatever app I'm using, not have to worry about whether my chosen node happens to be connected to theirs, not to mention that something like this [0] can happen and then apparently…

    Comment linking /blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

    on “Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?”
  8. AshFurrow · 2011-12-24

    Submitted How to Learn to Write iOS Apps as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  9. qrush · 2013-02-13
    Call it my crutch, but I got an app shipped without having to worry about a lot of the baggage that comes with Objective-C as a language. Here's two of my favorite examples of things I didn't have to worry about: http://nshipster.com/nil/ (wat) http://ashfurrow.com/blog/seven-deadly-sins-of-modern-object... (6/7 of these don't apply...testing is something I need to work on though!)

    Comment linking /blog/seven-deadly-sins-of-modern-objective-c

    on “Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion”
  10. moeedm · 2011-12-02

    Submitted The OAuth chronicles: I am not stupid as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  11. mindwork · 2022-07-22
    I'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow. Here are the blogs that I follow: - https://jvns.ca/atom.xml - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml - https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml - https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml - https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml - https://sookocheff.com/index.xml - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss - https://zachholman.com/atom.xml - https://www.wezm.net/v2/…

    Comment linking /feed.xml

    on “Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?”
  12. gglanzani · 2013-01-03

    Submitted Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Objective-C as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  13. rismay · 2014-02-11
    Come on guys: NSBlog That Mike Ash is amazing. https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ Also: Ash Furrow. That guy is serious about helping. http://ashfurrow.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are the best sources of news for iOS app dev?”
  14. AshFurrow · 2011-12-10

    Submitted A Comprehensive Overview of Windows 8 Metro App Development as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  15. harpastum · 2016-05-16
    It looks like Artsy.net is using it, according to this blog post from one of their developers: https://ashfurrow.com/blog/lets-steal-other-developers-best-...

    Comment linking /blog/lets-steal-other-developers-best-ideas/

    on “Ask HN: Who is using Facebook's GraphQL in production?”
  16. marvel_boy · 2015-12-21

    Submitted MVVM is Exceptionally OK as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  17. piotrkubisa · 2019-09-29
    I could say the same about overwhelming number of articles on HN, especially those related to software development, that they are kind of an advertisement. The person also does not seem to be affiliated with CDN provider of his choice [0]. [0]: https://ashfurrow.com/about/

    Comment linking /about/

    on “Migrating from Cloudflare”
  18. AshFurrow · 2012-01-17

    Submitted How to Design iOS Apps as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  19. dblock · 2023-01-07
    Joey who opened https://github.com/artsy/README/issues/427 is one of the best 10x engineers I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. If it’s important to him to rename all branches from “master” to “joey” I’d add my plus 1. Jokes aside, please read Ash’s (another artsy alumni) post on psychological safety, hope it changes your mind: https://ashfurrow.com/blog/building-compassionate-software/

    Comment linking /blog/building-compassionate-software/

    on “Artsy Engineering Handbook”
  20. AshFurrow · 2014-01-21

    Submitted Structuring Modern Objective-C as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  21. cuu508 · 2026-07-30
    When mastodon.technology shut down, the operator commented on this, see "Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?" here -- https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

    Comment linking /blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

    on “Toot.community Is Shutting Down”
  22. AshFurrow · 2012-05-03

    Submitted Stop Saying "No" to Your Designers as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  23. falava · 2013-01-09
    Here is a list of some: http://speirs.org http://mattgemmell.com http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ http://nshipster.com http://www.objectivesee.com http://www.fruitstandsoftware.com/blog/ http://ashfurrow.com/blog/ http://www.cimgf.com/ http://www.cocoawithlove.com/ All of them extracted from here: http://ashfurrow.com/blog/blog-resources And some more: http://objectivesea.tumblr.com/ http://soff.es/ And finally, this…

    Comment linking /blog/blog-resources

    on “Ask HN: What are the best iOS dev blogs?”
  24. AshFurrow · 2012-08-21

    Submitted Don't Use OAuth for your API as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  25. AshFurrow · 2011-09-26

    Submitted One of the Worst Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  26. ingve · 2019-09-29

    Submitted Migrating from Cloudflare as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  27. AshFurrow · 2014-02-11

    Submitted We Need to Replace Objective-C as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  28. zdw · 2012-11-27

    Submitted Why Objective-C is Hard to Learn as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  29. AshFurrow · 2012-01-15

    Submitted An Argument for the iPhone's Contextual Mute Behaviour as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  30. AshFurrow · 2011-12-23

    Submitted Optimizing Core Data Saves as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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