Colm Doyle
@cdoyle.me
Just a random person on the internet. Fan of world class developer experiences and traveling. he/him
Hey, made a thing! Been dipping back into iOS dev, and built an app to fix my own terrible score-keeping in tennis. Turns out tracked data = a coach in your pocket w/ stats, trends, even flagging my slipping double-fault %. Tennis players, give Luasc a try: apple.co/3RLkAby
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Truly the only thing better than England losing the 3rd place playoff will be if they lose it after being 4-0 up.
I sometimes wonder if the entire premise of the tv show “Sugar” is “well damned if Colin Farrell doesn’t look good in a suit”
Truly the ultimate flex would be Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce booking Madison Square Garden as elaborate misdirection, and they’re actually getting married in a small ceremony somewhere beautiful in the middle of nowhere with a handful of close friends.
Not many beliefs I hold stronger than if you have a corporate box on a Grand Slam show court, and you leave it empty during a match, you should be forced to forfeit it for the rest of the tournament.
The level of institutional grift in the US right now is wild. The politest way to describe the SpaceX S1 is…aspirational…and the SEC as the main watchdog is silent. Probably cause a bunch of folks in “the right places” are going to make a fortune. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
Is SpaceX designed for the first federal memestock bailout?
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There’s this school of thought around personal budgeting whereby if you want to impulse buy a luxury item, even if you have the money you should tell yourself to wait, and if you still want it, then buy it. We need that, but for Opus and new features in your product. cdoyle.me/the-real-ai-...
The Real AI Debt Nobody's Talking About
The discourse around AI-assisted development has fixated on technical debt. Conference talks, blog posts, heated threads, all wringing hands over the maintainability of AI-generated code. They're worr...
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The irony of someone claiming some kind of moral high ground by posting on X of all channels available to them.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnthropic’s safety research head quit saying he has “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions.” Anthropic is on track to $30B ARR from selling AI while simultaneously claiming AI will destroy humanity. It’s no surprise the cognitive dissonance is making people quit.
AI made us faster at building. It didn't make us better at choosing what to build. That's the debt nobody's talking about. cdoyle.me/the-real-ai-...
The Real AI Debt Nobody's Talking About
The discourse around AI-assisted development has fixated on technical debt. Conference talks, blog posts, heated threads, all wringing hands over the maintainability of AI-generated code. They're worr...
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Questions of NIMBYism aside, this guy seems like a real charmer "One man said that unless the proposal was dropped, he would not vote for any of the current councillors. “I’ll instruct my wife and kids not to also." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
‘How dare you’: South Dublin residents vent at plan to redesignate golf amenities for housing
Majority of objections to council proposals relate to Stepaside driving range and Jamestown pitch and putt
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Absolutely chaotic idea I just had (and is possible to do). Pipe every Claude Code prompt being entered by your team to a slack channel, in real time. Not sure if genius or madness.
Things I learned this week. Performance Review week is absolutely the best time to run an engineering-wide survey, because given the choice, people will do literally anything to avoid writing their performance review.
Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
I think a very significant part of the headless chickening on what is the world’s most straightforward question (“CSAM factory- is it allowed?”) has been the crippling cognitive dissonance of journalists justifying their continued use of X to themselves. They needed it to be a Q for debate.
A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 8mo ago“So now you have the Gardaí, the AI Minister and multiple legal experts including @iccl.bsky.social saying the legislation is all there already - it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the Government not to take a position on this”.
Today I learned - there's a built-in git command to get rid of untracked files - `git clean -fd`
Not loving all the electronics that Lego are letting creep into their stuff. The Mario kart kits are the prime example. www.lego.com/en-ie/aboutu...
LEGO SMART Play Announcement - CES - About Us - LEGO.com
The LEGO Group introduces LEGO® SMART Play™, a new play innovation that brings LEGO creations to life like never before LEGO Star Wars SMART Brick
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I see we’ve entered the “unprofitable VC backed companies acquiring each other” phase of the hype cycle. cursor.com/blog/graphite
Graphite is joining Cursor
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.
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Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 9mo agoSo what's the outcome? 2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week 2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped) 0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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The number of politicians and media outlets who will pontificate on the dangers of the far right, whilst simultaneously posting about it on X drives me kind of batty. There is no law that says you have to post there. You can just stop. It literally financially contributes to the problem.
I get it, it’s going to drive traffic, and because you’ve been covering it for so long, it’s now newsworthy. But I don’t understand why outlets in Ireland are covering the “withdrawal” of “candidates” who were never officially on a ballot, and never had a realistic chance of being on one.
The DoD is transitioning to a new identity. This is a process, and to support them during this time they would prefer if you addressed them by their preferred identity, which whilst not yet their legally recognized identity, makes them more comfortable. www.axios.com/2025/09/04/t...
Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War
The Trump administration has focused on restoring a "warrior ethos" to the Armed Services.
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What kind of madness is this? Prisons in the US charge the prisoners for room and board?!? www.axios.com/2025/07/12/e...
Exclusive: Most states allow jails and prisons to charge inmates for own incarceration
The debt wheel puts up more obstacles to escaping the poverty that likely put them in jail
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The action items workflow has become a big part of my daily routine. I don’t think I could go back to a day without it.
Clonra @clonra.com · last yr.Action Items are here—your new secret weapon for staying on track. We’ll pull out follow-ups from your logs and carry them forward automatically when done. It’s a loop of effortless productivity. AI features are fully opt-in, so nothing’s sent anywhere unless you say so. clonra.com/changelog/fo...
It’s amazing how much capacity you can pack into a microSD card these days, but it’s such a pain when you misplace one. They could be literally anywhere.
It’s not obvious to current users of Clonra, as I haven’t yet rolled them out, but over the last month or two I’ve built a handful of AI powered features for the tool that is starting to make it a second brain for me. The workflow I’ve built is really powerful.
