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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 27/09/2026

I spotted something I've never seen along the canal towpath near Intel in Leixlip — yellow holly berries. Anyone seen these before? Guessing they just be some kind of garden escape?

Podfeet @podfeet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Finale episode of #ProgrammingByStealth Tidbit 19, @bartb.ie explains how his choices of tooling to build nice terminal commands and provide color in the terminal (like red for error messages) were based on simplicity, the fewest dependencies, and active support. pbs.bartificer.net/tidbit19

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Building a JavaScript CLI App with NodeJS

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 23/09/2026

A second harvest— it's been such a good summer that the wild flower meadows in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth needed to be harvested for hay twice!

A portrait-oriented landscape shot taken on a yellow-born field of fresh cut hay with a round hay bale in the foreground, and a large three-story neo-gothic building with a big church spire in the background, and a clear blue sky above. Because of the warm low sun, the bale casts a long shadow.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 21/09/2026

It's almost like the wonderful red #autumn (#fall) colours in the Boston Ivy wash down from the roof of Stoyte House in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth!

A view towards the Ivy-covered gable of a large three-story Georgian building along a path running diagonally toward the door at the centre of the gable. The Ivy is green on the lower half of the building, but a deep burgundy red on the top half. A tree branch frames the top-right corner of the image to balance the portrait-oriented composition.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 21/09/2026

Broken symmetry — nature trumps the architect's designs 🙂 One of the arches through Stoyte House for accessing St. Joseph's Square in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #blackAndWhite #architecture

A view of a large stone arch cropped to the exact edges of the surrounding stone work. The arch is perfectly symmetrical, but the ivy encroaching into it is all in the top-left corner.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 20/09/2026

The Boston Ivy in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth is starting to turn red, St. Joseph's square really is at its most spectacular in #autumn (#fall)!

A portrait-oriented view of a part of a grand old building covered in ivy, mostly green, but one section gas turned a deep rich burgundy red. There is a stone arch at the bottom of the frame, allowing pedestrians through the building, and big Georgian window with small white-framed panes directly above.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 20/09/2026

Chestnuts in the making — still some time to go before they're ready for roasting on any open fires 🙂

A close view of a light green growth on a branch surrounded by big darker green pointed leaves. The growth is absolutely covered in crisscrossed spines, making it look quite intimidating!

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 20/09/2026

Red, green, and a hint of blue — some really stunning red #autumn (#fall) colour on our street.

A close relatively wide view of a branch with a handful of long pointed very deep vibrant red leaves surrounded by green leaves with patches of blue sky and a hint of a suburban street visible though the gaps.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 14/09/2026

Tiny little Fairy Foxgloves clinging to the edge of the #RoyalCanal quay side at Pike Bridge east of #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A close top-down view of a small plant with two stalks topped with purple flowers looking along a stone wall towards water. The plant has small leaves tucked close to the stonework, and two short flower stalk shoot up from these leaves towards the camera. Small spherical groups of a handful of all-purple flowers, each with five well separated petals with a ridge running down their centers

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Podfeet @podfeet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In this quite gloomy installment, @bartb.ie brings us the latest #CyberSecurity news. I think I said more than once, “It's the end of times”, while we were recording for the show tomorrow! www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/09...

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Security Bits — 12 September 2026 - Podfeet Podcasts

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Age Verification News: Microsoft adds...

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 11/09/2026

The season is coming to an end, and as the days cool, the butterflies need to spend more time sunbathing to raise their body temperature. This makes them a lot more docile, making closeups a lot easier! I snapped this beautiful Painted Lady #Butterfly in @maynoothuniversity.ie. #Maynooth

A top-down diagonally composed closeup of a mostly brown butterfly, perched on big dark yellow daisies with conical black centers with wings wide open. The butterfly’s torso is brown and hairy, and there are little areas of different colours towards the edge of the wings, mostly orange and black, with a little white.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 05/09/2026

Racing the train — I was genuinely curious whether the distant #IrishRail InterCity train or the approaching runner would reach me first along the banks of the #RoyalCanal easy of #Maynooth. I was hoping the'd get to me at the same time, but alas, the train 'won', so the runner is quite small.

A yellow-fronted silver and dark green rounded railcar-type train approaching from right to left on the far bank of a tree-lined rural canal. There is a gravel towpath on the near bank, and a runner can be seen approaching in the mid-distance. The sky above is overcast, and a branch from the nearest tree frames most of the top of the scene. The railway, canal, and towpath run straight and parallel, so all converge at a vanishing point near the right-middle of the image.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 04/09/2026

The seasons are changing, and #autumn (#fall) is definitely coming! This European sycamore leaf still had one foot in summer when the wind blew it down 🙂

A five-fingered leaf lying flat in dark tarmac. The leaf is a tie-dye-like equal mix of green and yellow.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 04/09/2026

Want to support a fantastic scientific instrument named for NASA's first female chief astronomer? Adopt a pixel while you can! science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...

A certificate showing that Bart Busschots has adopted a pixel on the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 04/09/2026

The branches of the elder trees around #Maynooth are literally drooping under the weight of a bumper crop of elderberries!

A close view of a big cluster of hundreds of tiny black berries with green leaves and more clusters of berries visible behind in soft focus.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 03/09/2026

The sunflowers in their sheltered spot at the top of Main St. in #Maynooth are at their best at the moment! #Bloomscrolling

A shallow depth of field portrait-oriented portrait of a big yellow sunflower bloom at the top of a stalk with a layer of big round pointed leaves further down the stalk included below. The sunflower is growing in front of a natural stone wall with a well trimmed hedge behind.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 03/09/2026

I'm not allowed to build this till my birthday in January — this is gonna take some serious self-control!

A big Lego box set of the Star Trek Enterprise bridge and transporter room with 1701 pieces.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 03/09/2026

The wild Dog Rose flowers I enjoyed along the #RoyalCanal this summer are ripening into rose hips!

A close view of a cluster of three glossy light-green oval-shaped half-inch long berries in a green hedgerow with a branch with opposing small oval leaves in the foreground.

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Let's Talk Podcasts @lets-talk.ie · 03/09/2026

Let's Talk Apple 156, the show for August 2026 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta156 The three main stories are the passing of the baton from Tim Cook to John Ternus, Apple and the EU agreeing to App Store terms, and new Mac hardware.

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Let's Talk Apple episode 156 — August 2026

August may be the news silly season, but there's still plenty of Apple news to digest! The show starts with the usual few follow-up, some legal and regulatory updates, some HR news, and some updates t...

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 02/09/2026

A very Irish autumn hedgerow — juicy blackberries surrounded by deep red Haws (hawthorn berries)!

A close view of a cluster of blackberries at the end of a branch with lots of greenery dotted with small very deep dark red berries behind.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 02/09/2026

This month's featured category on Glass is "Anthropomorphic", it has me seeing faces all over the place, like in these weed cutting boats on the #RoyalCanal — think floating Thomas the Tank Engine eating weeds! (Check out the gallery: glass.photo/explore/categorie...)

A black and white shot of a small work
Boat moored to a wooden quay on a narrow rural canal. The boat is sealed up for the night with metal shutters with eye-like handles, and the join between them is evocative of a nose.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 02/09/2026

Spindle is one of Ireland's lesser known wild trees — despite having wonderfully shaped little pink fruits, they are very subtle when blended into a hedgerow, with the berries tucked in close to the stem. You'll only spot them when walking attentively.

A close view of a cluster of small pastel-pink pumpkin-shaped berries.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 01/09/2026

The first Horse Chestnut conker of the year on the #RoyalCanal towpath in #Maynooth.

A ground-level wide and close view of a large nut brown in a fleshy spiky green husk that has split open and one third has come away, revealing the nut. The nut is lying on a gravel path next to a wall, and a stone arched bridge is just visible further down the path in soft focus. The sky above is cloudy.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 01/09/2026

More signs of autumn's onset — deep red Haws (Hawthorn berries) along the hedgerows in #Maynooth.

A close view of a cluster of small deep dark red berries against a background of lush green leaves.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 31/08/2026

Fresh blackberries! Autumn is definitely making its presence felt.

A close view of a little cluster of six blackberries at the end of a branch against a background of light green leaves.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 31/08/2026

A developing fir cone.

A small young silvery green seed cone standing up on a branch covered in silvery dark green needles.

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A dull but calm day on Lough Ramor near Virginia in Co. Cavan, Ireland.

A view across a still lake on an overcast day with a marina with sailing boats in the foreground, and green hills on the far bank of the big lake.

I’ve been holding off posting on the passing of Dolly Parton to be sure I wasn’t just getting swept up in the hype. So, was she really “all that and a bag of chip”? Having listens to this, I know she was! overcast.fm/+AA7_X2C20

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One final #Butterfly shot from the insect garden at the library in #Maynooth University — another Red Admiral, this time perched on a lone Black-eyed Susan with wings half-cocked ready to fly away.

A relatively wide view of a mostly black butterfly perched on a lone big dark yellow daisy with a black cone-shaped center. The focus is on the butterfly and flower, and the genetic greenery behind is in soft focus. The butterfly has striking red and white bands that evoke naval rank insignia.

A Small Tortoiseshell #Butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan in the insect garden at the library in #Maynooth University.

A close view of a brown and orange butterfly sitting on the petals of a large dark yellow daisy with a black center. The butterfly has a very hairy brown torso with wings that are predominantly orange but also have spots of black, white, and even a little blue. The butterfly has its wings wide open, and the view is looking down at the butterfly’s face from above, so the wings are at an oblique angle.

Podfeet @podfeet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reposted by Bart Busschots

Programming By Stealth Tidbit 19 has turned into a 3-part podcast, learning about how @bartb.ie created a module to pull titles and URLs from news sites for Security Bits and Let's Talk Apple. This real-world example has a lot of meat on its bones. pbs.bartificer.net/tidbit19 #ProgrammingByStealth

pbs.bartificer.net

Building a JavaScript CLI App with NodeJS

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 29/08/2026

A majestic Red Admiral #Butterfly on the Black-eyed Susans in the insect garden at the library in #Maynooth University.

A portrait oriented wide but close view of a big mostly black butterfly perched on a very big dark yellow daisy with a black centre. There are more big flowers around the one the butterfly is perched on. The butterfly has red rims around the wings and white bands near the tips, reminiscent of naval rank insignia.

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Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 29/08/2026

A big Painted Lady #Butterfly on the Black-eyed Susans in the little insect garden at the library in #Maynooth university (a lovely little hidden gem on the campus!).

A big mostly brown butterfly with wings wide open perched on a very large dark yellow daisy with a black center surrounded by more of the same flowers. The butterfly’s torso is brown and hairy, and there are white and black regions towards the butterfly’s wing tips.

Bart Busschots @bartb.ie · 29/08/2026

I love the way @spsheridan.bsky.social approaches these videos, the people experiencing the eclipse are as much a part of the story he tells as the eclipse itself! youtube.com/watch?v=oZjV...

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2026 Spain Total Solar Eclipse

YouTube video by Steve Sheridan