Donncha Ó Caoimh

You'll find me here: @donncha" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.ie/@donncha Not abandoning Twitter but there are nicer places to be.

@conoro @automattic I have photos!

One of the OG Irish Bloggers, Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha, has been with @automattic for 20 years! Time really has flown since that Irish Bloggers Dinner in Proby's Bistro in Cork in 2005 where many of us met for the first time. odd.blog/2025/06/20/twe…

@jeffr0 @lukeoneil47 Thanks Jeff for the ping, and thanks Luke for linking to the Flickr photo in your post! A photo from the Automattic grand meetup that took place in Seaside. Even back in 2010, the heat and humidity there was unbearable as late in the year as September.

@lukeoneil47 Oh wow, @donncha photo sighting

@thomasbrunkard @RecoveringQ @QueenWillRock Great cover of a great song. Amazing work, Thomas!

The lads of @RecoveringQ very kindly invited me on to their show to play some guitar and talk about @QueenWillRock’s Bijou. We discovered something especially poignant about Freddie Mercury’s last recording sessions whilst examining the music.

@frank_oconnor @judesherry Weird. I see your posts come up almost every time I open Twitter, which isn't very often these days TBH.

This account is coming like a ghost ban

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@AlecMuffett @simonw Thanks Alec! I presume the new version of the plugin sorted out the problem with the cached author page? Thank you so much for reporting it.

@simonw Concur, @donncha has done us a solid.

Mastodon seems to be a lot more fragile than USENET; the whole PubSub thing seems to assume better connectivity than old-style distribution permits alecmuffett.com/article/108216

@QueenSeaside I moved to Mastodon and rarely look here any more, but thankfully I see your posts on FB!

@EoinBearla They were fabulous! Got a few photos of them for my site, although mostly it's just the HUGE crowd watching and listening to them! inphotos.org/2023/09/24/boo…

Should be a feature on the streets of #Cork every weekend #choon

@JTPHealy I remember seeing it from Cobh in 2009. It had to be turned, which was quite impressive! inphotos.org/2009/01/22/tur…

Interested onlookers at Myrtleville have a clear view of the QE2 shortly after the liner dropped anchor in Cork Harbour early on the morning of May 12th, 1988. #Cork #Ireland #ships #liners

@QueenSeaside Always loved this song, and now I'm married to a white hot lady it's definitely a champion.

@SpikeIslandCork More photos on my site at inphotos.org/2023/07/09/202… #fireworks #photo #Cobh #SpikeIsland #Cork #Ireland

Just a couple of photos of the fireworks from last night on Spike Island. @SpikeIslandCork, you put on a great show! Loads more photos on my photo blog, link to follow later. #fireworks #cork #ireland #SpikeIsland

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@EricLuke2 Thanks. I'll keep on searching. Great image of Rory BTW. Love your work, but haven't been on twitter much in a long time.

@donncha No that’s not mine 📷

When I was a teenager I photographed the great Rory Gallagher live on stage in the 1970s. I had a print made, life size on my wall in my bedroom. Fifty years later I’m having the top photographic printers recreating that photograph for my bedroom, as I now approach 70 years of age… the power of photography and music

@nearyd I asked chatgpt to write a script to do something for me. It write an actual script.. LOL. Unfortunately the code was incorrect too. Oh well. odd.blog/2023/04/18/cha…

Love it. "Write me a script for a 40 minute pilot episode for a series about ..." will now be the #1 trending query on ChatGPT.

@nearyd @mairin I'd almost go for the simpler Tá or Sea. TBH I've hardly ever used an interface in Irish so I'm not sure what the conventions are.

@mairin @donncha In which case "Deimhnigh" might suit your purposes.

@queenseaside I still think the original is a champion song but that mix of it is amazing. Thanks Kevin.

@thomasbrunkard @ikmultimedia @kzguitar Coincidentally, I'm listening to this episode of @queenseaside now. pca.st/episode/c95109…

Too Much Live Will Kill You is a petty heavy song and the solo a phrasing master class. Using @ikmultimedia ToneX, Amplitube and Sampletank here with the @kzguitar Red Special