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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(availability of SLOs unclear)

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That explains a lot / I walked into that one

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now what I want to know if main is degraded or alt is degraded

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

non-functional.net/posts/2026-1... Linux kernel bugapalooza - that list of CVEs is something else...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026

"but as the map recursively improves, eventually it becomes..." *clicks to final slide in the pitch deck* "...the territory!"

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Clip art by Adam Hillman

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Sitting in stunned, jealous awe cos my eight year old nephew just earnestly referred to the famine as a "potato outage".

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i will spend a long time complaining about how reinforcement learning is done, but notwithstanding the nature of a large language model, the interface is the humanities

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

These 3 pages (from before AI) on complex systems are worth reading Complex systems run broken but survive because the flaws rarely line up, which allows humans a chance to intervene. AI can find or make aligned flaws. We need a similar new philosophy of system defense (beyond just cyber) using AI

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I expect the whole work to be instructive! But the title might be imperative :)

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 17/08/2026

this seems more accurate given the frequency of errors right now

the github unicorn from its error pages, without the horn.

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

_Amazon_ doing this is ... unexpected.

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I kinda like that we still don’t take security that seriously, though I appreciate there are/will be downsides

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Persuant to my ingot of the 21st inst

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Useful to have Bluesky now saying if followers have found you via a Starter Park. We have done four (the 1st three may need updating): Publishers in Ireland: go.bsky.app/GS15SpY Literary Journals in Ireland: go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv Bookshops in Ireland: go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq #WITmonth go.bsky.app/KEkwYR6

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I do of course bow to local knowledge (visited in 2019, big fan), but I was led to believe they snarf all the ground-level eggs and stuff

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*turns off own access in a puff of logic*

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

apparently it's the hedgehogs which are one of the worst, which now that I think about it, also plays well with your metaphor

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Grace @gracekind.net · 10/08/2026

Our moral intuitions tell us that the layperson chanting "do a breakthrough" to the magic box should be punished for his hubris, yet here we are

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I mean if only there were an incredibly important and difficult recent subject matter where a geometric interpretation provided extremely useful intuitions

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

demis moving from ceo to chief scientist, @jeffdean.bsky.social starting his own company so, uh, complete gdm rotation i think

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Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A fun day out for all the family

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 28/07/2026

Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online

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Tom Dowling 🇮🇪 @tomtdowling.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

52% of the material was sent to Russia. Interestingly, the Irish Government was unable to admit this fact.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fabulous chart showing how the improvements in AI bug finding became visible to project owners which matches what OSS maintainers were telling me in March about the sea change to “still too many but good actually so we can’t ignore them”

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Doctor, the Master, and the Pope

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think it breaks the "linear amounts of bugs for linear effort" assumption

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"because all the brainstems need to throb at roughly the same rate" has been my go-to answer previously

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thank you! Fix pushed. Do you agree with the points? Would you add or subtract any?

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What software engineers believe about reliability: github.com/niallrmurphy... and non-functional.net/posts/2026-0...

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Dublin… perhaps the worst housing shortage in the world. … rents in the city have risen more than twofold in a decade, outpacing increases in incomes…. The proportion of 25-34 year olds in Ireland living with their parents [went] from 19% to 42%, more extreme than …London, NY and SF”

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I just had root canal work. The dentist told me to put in my headphones and distract myself with tunes. Mid-way through drilling, I got the phone call tune in my ears! I told the dentist to stop and turned the phone towards my face to see... it was the dental surgery reception, about the next appt.

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“I’m just not used to the oppressive heat of the Irish Summer”, said no-one ever, except it’s actually now true

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Increasingly true for all of us tho’ (including bosses, but bosses not typically fully aware of this)

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've created weatherdata.ie to show latest weather data and daily max and min etc from Met Eireann open data and some NI stations along, any feedback/suggestions welcome. Will look at adding ability for personal stations to be added to a personal station map in the future as wow.met.ie is going EOL

weatherdata.ie

weatherdata.ie by Carlow Weather

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New Years Resolution: DO NOT READ my archived email from the 1990s. That guy was an asshole

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sharing this with everyone I know:

From John Cutler on linkedin:

One reason some neurodivergent people (hello!) are good at strategy is that we are willing to push harder on incoherence than other people. We can push until a pattern falls out.

Of course this same skill/superpower gets you so deep that everyone else has left the room by the time the pattern finally appears.

The "bias to action" person may interpret the behavior as:

"You're uncomfortable with ambiguity, so you keep asking questions."

But the internal experience might be closer to:

"No, I'm very comfortable in ambiguity. I'm swimming in it. What I'm uncomfortable with is everyone pretending we are no longer in it."

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you cross the Dnipro, a great empire will fall

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