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David Molloy

@davidmolloy.com

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Newsletters Editor at the Australian Financial Review, ex-BBC News in London. From Ireland, in Australia. davidmolloy.com

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 25/07/2025

I've updated my @obsidian.md theme so everything looks pretty and that's basically the same as actually accompishing the work I have to do today, right?

A screenshot of the Obisdian notetaking software, with brightly multicoloured folders on the left, a central panel with notes on SQL database queries in the centre, and a panel on the right with a complex web of links and nodes - all in a calm, deep pastel blue colour scheme

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 07/05/2025

New job, new bio.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 11/02/2025

I've been spending a few weeks back in Europe - took a nice stroll around the French mountains near Grenoble this past weekend.

Flat farmland sits in front of a looming snow-capped mountain range with colours hanging halfway to the summit

A bridge through a rural town bends slightly around the river curve with a mountain ridge visible against a blue sky

A country laneway lined with bare winter trees.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 24/01/2025

I left summer storms in Sydney and flew to Ireland for winter storms. Holy moly has it been breezy here in Dublin. Nothing for it but a cuppa tae and wait for it all to blow over. #Eowyn

A teacup with the words “Conas ata tu” in Irish, which means “How ar you?”.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 16/12/2024

Moving to Australia for parent leave means I entirely skipped winter this year. Sitting on the verandah on a summer evening watching the kookaburras isn't a bad December activity.

An Australian kookaburra bird is seen in part silhouette against a blue sky with green eucalyptus trees on the horizon.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 05/12/2024

Getting used to Summer Christmas down under. Warm is good, but it also feels somehow... wrong. No mulled wine to be found at markets either!

An enormous towering Christmas tree decked out in red and green baubles in Sydney's Martin Place street. People strolling past it are in summer wear of shorts and dresses.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 26/11/2024

Pandemic is great - a co-op game where it's all players against the board. Heat, a racing game, is also excellent but maybe a little deep. And I love Coup for a cheeky "liars" game but one that is very simple and light.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 26/11/2024

The discs on the side of a discbound notebook function like a spiral-bound, allowing you to lay it flat; but pages can also be removed to reorder things, or when you need a junk scribble or to hand someone a note - all without ruining your notebook. Beautiful! cultpens.com/products/ato...

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 24/11/2024

A good Sunday.

A photo shows bright coloured cards on a game board, as two people play the board game called Lost Cities

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 22/11/2024

Round and round we go on the social links parade...

The Bluesky icon being added to a row of links on a website, with Threads being third in the row.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 20/11/2024

"We'll stream it from The Cloud - it'll be grand!" ...when it works, it's excellent. But when it doesn't, it's *catastrophic*, to the extent you can't even see the runway. #Microsoft #flightsim

A view out the left cockpit window of a Flight Simulator plane- showing the ground as a blocky, pixelated mess with no discernible features.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 19/11/2024

The modern day one software experience in a nutshell: Microsoft Flight sim 2024 has offloaded a lot of tasks to the cloud, and so demand has crashed their system on launch.

A computer screen reads: login queue; too many users are trying to connect at the same time.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 17/11/2024

I've been using Obsidian for my notes lately - it's local, powerful, and free - and they've just released a very cool official web clipper that captures key metadata - including the original publication date - and body text. Still not ideal for audio / video, but neat! obsidian.md/clipper

A screenshot of a BBC News report on the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022.

A screenshot of the Obsidian web clipper results, pulling in the body text of the article as well as metadata

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 16/11/2024

The poser desktop.

A Fujifilm camera lies on a brown leather desk pad next to an Audio Technica condenser microphone on a mic stand.

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 15/11/2024

Australian warning signs are a different breed, lads.

A red warning sign with yellow symbols includes warning for Blue Ringed Octopus, Sharp Oysters, and Stingrays

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David Molloy @davidmolloy.com · 11/11/2024

Sydney's Sculptures by the Sea art trail in Bondi last week - some very cool stuff. Well worth the lovely walk, even with steep stairs and a baby!

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