ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy

Watching the racist loons in the UK talking about how they aim to save the British Isles, it seems particularly timely to repeat a simple fact you may not be aware of Ireland is not a British isle Yes, most everything you've been told on that topic is wrong. articles.hughsheehy.com/british-isles/

Thought. This current generation of AIs can generate working code far faster than people can describe what they want.

I can't even see one group of 4 in today's NYT Connections. Hey ho. I'm sure an AI can do it.

Running multiple AIs in parallel. Gemini Aragon 4 (which is excellent now that I FINALLY found out how to use it), Claude (also excellent) and Codex - which just told me that I'm out of my 5hr allowance when Claude would barely be getting warmed up.

The three saddest songs I can think of...in no particular order. Any competitors? Compay Segundo (with Charles Aznavour) Jacques Brel, Stromae music.youtube.com/watch?v=PLIr... music.youtube.com/watch?v=zAxi... music.youtube.com/watch?v=xHxa... Sometimes my 700 song playlist goes odd places!

A 40 year old movie. Great soundtrack too.

Sad news. A giant has left us. www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

The most shockingly bad chart I've seen in ages. Was it made as a deliberately bad chart?

Trying Google Argon 4. The first challenge was figuring out how to get access to the thing. For a search company, Google does not make it easy to find that out.

If there even was a debate anymore, there's nobody better to start to end it. www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

Who knew how historical he really was!

Not that impressed by the Tesla flying car, tbh. Feels decades and decades behind the curve. youtu.be/dulB5nlKYCk?... youtu.be/0TCLCDVjoxI?... youtu.be/faiFfBxhT8s And if you want the ultimate of "doing silly things with cars near lots of people", this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I5s...

I was in Portadown earlier today. A beautiful day there, and the countryside around really is lovely.

The same sad answer increasingly applies to a simple question that could be about almost any natural resource, or lots of natural things in general. "What's the best X to eat/use/see?" is the question. And the answer is "Whatever's left." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

The totals involved are big enough by now to make me really hope that it's not financial turtles all the way down. www.ft.com/content/678b...

Very cool

Might not be the first place you'd think of for shoes, unless you're from Kilkenny. Good value too. In certain styles

Trying to cancel Virgin Media. Their AI assistant has been programmed by a moron. And now there are 29 people ahead of me in the queue to talk to a human...which I didn't want to do anyway.

Your French language practice for a fine Sunday. Vesoul. If you can do this in Karaoke, I'm impressed. Even if you're actually French. music.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IT...

This is one of the key issues in modern tech, finance, society, etc. How fast, and for how long? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Listening to music. This banger came past. music.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV_... Learn to sing it. Worth every minute.

I just bought blue suede shoes from the shoe company in my home town. They are very nice. Even my stylish son approves. I don't even listen to Elvis. Though I presume blue suede shoes pre-date him too.

The "cruel and unusual punishment" argument against the death penalty - at least by lethal injection - just got a LOT stronger.

Is there music cheerier than this? music.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzu...

A new design on my webshop. It has particular meaning as a pregnancy shirt! Maybe less controversial as a mug. www.cafepress.com/dd/140281586 In honor of President Trump's recent description of the Irish. Who could disagree?

We just over dosed on garlic. I think we'll probably do it again. Sorry.

I had started planning a trip to Portadown again. Hadn't been in a while.

I confess I find it surprising that this is 35 years old. Has there been anything as heavy as this album since? music.youtube.com/watch?v=__TD...

Ok. I smiled.

My little HubSpot add on for Thunderbird is live in the Thunderbird addons directory. Finally. If you use Thunderbird (seems people still do) and Hubspot (lots do), it helps a lot. addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunde...

Trying to update a Windows 10 2-core I5 that was last updated in 2023. Nearing 24 hours now. Once it's updated and files come off, Linux goes on.

British politics is becoming quite scary.

This is a real kick. Blogger was supposed to be safe. @Google is clearly lining up to kill it off.

The reason engineers or scientists or even software developers often work into the night is very simple and nowadays explainable in AI/LLM terms. The context gets wiped and if you can finish without doing that, it's a lot better. Meantime, off to bed.

I win.

All 16 cores running hard. Doesn't often happen. Running test suites across a codebase.

I clearly don't understand the rules of twitter. I've reported multiple accounts for saying variants of "All {insert religion/race} are {insert insult}", often in the vilest terms. Maybe one has been a successful report. Ever. What am I missing.

Not a view I'd seen before. 6" guns looking out on the entrance to Cork Harbour.

Running Google Gemini at the command line (agy) my overall impression is that no-one in Google is actually using it. Can't be.

My "doh" moment for the week. I did my online shopping and bought 1 banana.

Our new branding here in Ireland. Apparently.

Even getting an addon through the Thunderbird approval process is slow. This is after a couple of weeks.

If you're going to make unit conversion errors, make them somewhere safe.

Remember the line? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Are we there yet? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/m...

The hard thing with the AIs at the moment is to have them NOT try to overbuild. The idea of a crude POC or crude MVP with "Yes, i know it's crude...that's fine" seems beyond them.

Note, not in Ireland. Not hard to guess why, or why not. blog.google/innovation-a...