Changes to my ThinkPad Setup: October 2025
It’s been a while since I have written a post on my ThinkPad collections. In fact, it’s been a while since I have written anything on this blog for that matter.
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My Latest ThinkPad Setup: New Laptop and Distro
It’s official. I’ve now become a new, fully-fledged member of the ThinkPad cult community. What have I done? I’ve only gone at bought yet another ThinkPad - this time a ThinkPad T...
More Than Just a Title: Rethinking the Value of a PhD
I remember a couple of years ago now I was waiting in the GP surgery to collect my prescription and when the receptionist called my name over, I recall her saying “Mr Ashford, your prescripti...
For the Love of JavaScript! — Notes from a Python/Go Dev Going Back to the Browser
In a recent blog post, I talked about a little web app I built which process data in real-time from the Bluesky f...
Fun with Bluesky and Websockets
Do you remember the good old days when we used to have complete free-for-all access to the Twitter API? Oh, those were the days. I remember making so many different projects that used the API in so...