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Oisín Hurley

@oisinhu

Principal Consultant @ Chunky Labs https://chunkylabs.com Science, technology, programming, electronics, 3d printing, books, writing, photography, nature, tabletop games, cooking. Terribly nerdy. A dog turned up in my house in 2020 and is still here.

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The Ambiguity of the CTO It's such a terrible title. It's such a wide role. It's not useful in a huge percentage of companies. You should really only have a CTO if technology drives your strategy. And you should treat them appropriately.
12.03.2026 08:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg already

03.03.2026 14:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Used to be a firm favourite of mine.

21.02.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfesh software dev since 1991 here - probably about 10% overall. This rises to maybe 30% in "enterprise" companies. IMO there are software engineers and there are programmers, two subsets of computery people. The former makes systems, the latter writes code to spec. Latter cannot do former.

21.02.2026 10:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only 664 more people needed for us to pass our threshold.

Please, please, if you haven't signed already. Don't presume others will. Sign and share

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#Speirgorm #Ireland #SixNations

05.02.2026 17:06 👍 34 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 5

Absolutely knackered tonight so won't make it. Saving the energy for the Open Source conference tomorrow (where I am being put to work)

05.02.2026 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very cool! I hadn't seen the Kif visualized before, and this looks great :)

14.11.2025 16:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fucking grotesque. That a civilizations fear of death is so bad, and it's attitude to the tides of living is so underdeveloped, that they think making this kind of thing is a positive.

14.11.2025 13:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0


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Meeting assets for Zoom Meeting are ready! Meeting summary Quick recap Kate expressed frustration about an AI companion feature that she felt was misleading, and Rachel suggested turning it off. Next steps Next steps were not generated due to insufficient transcript.

LMAO. @kateholterhoff.com accidentally turned on Zoom's AI Companion at the start of a call and then immediately turned it off. It still sent us a recap.

05.11.2025 17:27 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

This reminded me that I still have a list of the first 1000 Ireland accounts on Twitter somewhere...

06.11.2025 19:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LEGO Constitution II class / Lilium Brick Yards A scale model of the Constitution II class first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, recreated with as much detail as possible. Ships of this class: USS Enterprise (refit) USS Enterprise-A Scale Co...

I am loving , LOVING the new Star trek related LEGO content but if that price is a little bit galaxy class to swallow then please, can I recommend you go visit @liliumbrickyards.com whose inspired creations are worthy of your shelf space too

@liliumbrickyards.com website liliumbrickyards.com

06.11.2025 15:18 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Lordy it's the first Thursday of a month AGAIN #DalkeyOpen

06.11.2025 18:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.

01.11.2025 12:44 👍 171 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 0

You are almost always correct Simon but you've absolutely duffed it on this Snack bar issue.

01.11.2025 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats that was a long haul! At least the mass of dogs and cats would help keep the place warm 😂

01.11.2025 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪

31.10.2025 09:23 👍 883 🔁 467 💬 12 📌 50

RTE panel show Impossible Challenge

25.10.2025 13:33 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Even more exciting, DynamoDB is now available in us-east-1.

22.10.2025 21:22 👍 140 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 3

Great game, proper deserved result for Munster!

18.10.2025 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

200% support for you there buddy

18.10.2025 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think no. Especially the older ones. If I run the clock back to when I was in mid-20s, there would be no therapy, either human or real!

18.10.2025 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Things that are fake:

- Alpha males (debunked by the original researcher)
- MSG causing headaches (never replicated)
- Learning styles (no evidence)

Things that are real:

- People will believe anything if it confirms their priors

15.10.2025 05:59 👍 107 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 0

oh god it's month 10 already 😬

I should be there!

01.10.2025 11:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I definitely heard the Benny Hill
music in my head when I watched that

29.09.2025 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

barf!

26.09.2025 08:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You have the blood pressure of a teenager there 😀 I generally triple-measure when using the cuff as the first one can be off.

25.09.2025 12:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How has this metric worked out over time? Is it consistently inaccurate, or chaotically inaccurate? 😀

25.09.2025 10:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

jesus wept!

25.09.2025 09:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big crowd in front of covered concert stage. Giant screens left and right of stage showing an old but yet still topless, Iggy Pop

Big crowd in front of covered concert stage. Giant screens left and right of stage showing an old but yet still topless, Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop, baked as fukken badger doing "Passenger" in 1977 in Manchester youtu.be/TZth4CNaEBA?...

Iggy Pop, needing to sit down for a couple minutes every now and then, doing the same song in 2025

24.09.2025 21:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0