Conor O'Neill

@hughsheehy @icedcoffee I'm playing the long game 😉 Eventually Elmo will get bored with this and move on to something else. Landing on the sun maybe. Would be nice to outlast him.

@conoro @icedcoffee I thought you'd given up on it too....but clearly not

Twitter/𝕏 is 20 years old. It will be a further 11 months before I sent my first tweet. A platform that really changed the world.

Well done & a big thank u to the Douglas Tidy Town crack team of volunteers for removing the despicable antisemitic graffiti found this morning. corkbeo.ie/news/local-new…

It's an amazing slice of 1965 life. "I don't care for these American shopping methods" - i.e. a self service supermarket. Also the Vesta curries on the shelves. Which I definitely tried in the late 70s.

Watching The IPCRESS File again. 1965. Caine is fabulous. They could re-release tomorrow and it'd be 100x better than most of the trash I've watched in recent years This is the famous scene where it's actually Len Deighton's hands because Caine couldn't master the egg cracking

@hughsheehy I thought Supabase did some sort of MCP for the usual suspects like Codex. Haven't looked in a while.

@conoro I'm looking for an equivalent for Codex and Postgres.

This makes Claude Code and DuckDB CLI even more of a no-brainer. If you need to do data analysis, they are a killer combo. The Accenture-Killer-Combo 😃 Days and Weeks of work reduced to minutes and hours.

Lad driving his pick-up truck on a remote road section of the Kerry Way this morning. His dog barking at maximum volume, hanging out the window. Going past house after house, well before 8am. I now understand why some rural murders happen between neighbours.

@kingkane I'm afraid if anyone learns that I didn't play Elite until last year, and that was on an emulator, my nerd passport will be revoked.

@conoro A housemate had an X-Windows book and I thought it must be magical. I wonder should I try one? Can you play Elite on them?

Reminded that I was never a SUN fan. In a 1995-2000 startup, half the company ran insanely expensive SUNs. My team ran higher spec Gateway 2000s w/ Windows NT for a fraction of the cost. The day I installed Linux on a spare one, I knew SUN was toast. youtube.com/watch?v=9MCPCL…

This week, vile antisemitic graffiti including the Nazi slogan “Juden Raus” (“Jews Out”) and support to Hitler were sprayed across signs at Ballybrack Woods in Cork, Ireland - a peaceful public space for families and children. Local volunteers spent their Friday cleaning this hatred away. Thank you for standing up! Read more: corkbeo.ie/news/local-new…

On this week’s episode of 'Ireland doesn’t have an antisemitism problem' - Antisemitic graffiti was sprayed across signs in a public park in Cork, including the Nazi slogan 'Juden Raus' ('Jews Out') and messages expressing support for Hitler, in a space meant for families and children! Local volunteers had to spend their time cleaning that hatred away. Should we brace ourselves for some of the good ol' predictable responses? 'Where’s the proof this happened?' 'It’s probably staged' 'It's a false flag' 'The Jews did it themselves' 'It’s just one isolated incident' 'Show me more examples of antisemitism in Ireland I’ll wait' …followed by the usual gaslighting, minimising, deflecting, denying. Whatever other examples provided won't be good enough, either. Same script, every time. For those of us who once wondered why some of our ancestors felt the need to hide their identities - the past few years, especially since the October 7th massacre - have answered that question 💔

@kingkane We had some in college but then a few HP 9000 Unix workstations arrived and became the new hotness. In work in the 90s, all of our IC designers used them as they were the "standard" for ASIC work. But X Windows was soooo ugly.

@conoro I have only seen them in academic settings and I did honestly have a hankering for one. Just to see what they were like to use.

But to be serious for a second. No one wants to feel like their main activity on a phone is "shopping". Prime Video is a joke. Fire Tablets are for Netflix. Stop now. Build a decent LLM (finally!) and Agentic framework. Only then try again. reuters.com/technology/ama…

0.001 of a second. That’s how Lauren Roy 🇮🇪 claimed the LAST fastest time spot to reach the Women’s 60m semi-finals at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń. Catch all the action LIVE on Virgin Media 2 🏃‍♀️⚡ #WorldIndoors #TeamIreland #Torun2026

Alexa is "agentic" now, which means she preemptively orders 47 AA batteries because you bought a flashlight in 2019. You cannot return them because the return window closed during the 12-hour Glacier retrieval of the return policy PDF.

To make a phone call, you first select your Region. Calls from us-east-1 are free; everywhere else incurs a $0.02/minute surcharge plus a per-second "voice packet egress fee" that doesn't appear on your bill for 47 days.

The home screen has 437 app icons, each with a slightly different design language. 12 of them do the same thing. 3 are deprecated but can't be removed. One is just called "Amazon Basics Phone" and it's a worse version of the dialer that already ships with the phone.

1981, Thin LiZZy Top Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill of ZZ Top pose with Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott during the band’s visit to Dublin. The photo was taken by Erica Echenberg when ZZ Top played SFX Hall during their El Loco tour. ⚡️⚡️ Texas beards meet Dublin cool. 🤘

𝑫𝒂𝒚 2 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑰𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏!🤩 - Lauren Roy qualified for the Women's 60m semi-final's - Ciara Neville finished 4th in her 60m heat in her first major championships in five years - Maeve O'Neill placed 6th in her first global 800m semi-final - Mark English just missed out on a spot for his first ever global final! Coming up this evening 👀 - Andrew Coscoran & Nick Griggs - Men's 3,000m Final - 18:22 -Lauren Roy - Women's 60m Semi-Final - 19:14 -Lauren Roy - Women's 60m Final - 20:20* *Subject to qualification 📺 Watch live on Virgin Media TWO 📸 Sportsfile #IrishAthletics #WorlIndoorChamps less