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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/09/2026

Full endorsement. I hope there’s no reason to think they’re at risk! 😝

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 16/08/2026

It's super nice. Woodstar is just a good UX pass away now from being 100% viable.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 03/08/2026

Same. No issues so far apart from what I assume is the Neo not providing quite enough juice.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 31/07/2026

I think double check: they’re not ending the programme outright, just replacing it with another one.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 27/07/2026

Deliciously, Anthropic’s AI was the off-ramp I needed for me to delete this fuckbag and any indirect association with him from my life. The moral obligation to suck the air of his blowhard moral-saviour soapbox theatre is now.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/07/2026

Truly though: I’m leaving Ruby and Rails behind and feeling more optimistic about making software than ever.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 23/07/2026

Ruby on Rails IS omakase, but YOU are the fish.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 23/07/2026

@gavinsblog.bsky.social is having amazing success with solar + battery. Hasn't paid for electricity since installation, selling additional capacity back to the grid.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 23/07/2026

It’s amazing. A whole class of “does this cafe have a plug under the table” problem just goes away. I’m tempted to get another one so I can have one charging at home to hot swap into my backpack every day.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 23/07/2026

Like it did with the internet, Google is slowly enshittifying Dublin.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 23/07/2026

Rails is a self-help cult, created by a fascist who has engaged in 20 years of propaganda to control a bunch of smart people to work for him for free in order to enrich himself and his friends. Then I would start chanting: “if you can’t see the fish, you are the fish”.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 29/06/2026

Other thing I bought that I took a chance on as maybe frivolous: 100w power bank. Damn, it's come in to its own the last two days: yesterday out and about with the boys, and today in a café without access to power. Amazing to fast charge a MBP without needing a power socket.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 26/06/2026

Isn't it remarkable? I've been in Denmark for that ritual twice and I've never experienced anything quite like it. Fond memories of dancing with a bunch of graduates with Andy Delcambre (not on BlueSky?) at 2am many years ago.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

It’s possible to love the EU and poke fun at it at the same time. 😛

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

Just wait until the EU finds out.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

The charger came with a high-watt capability cable, and I ordered 6 more. Fast charging here I come!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

Well, I think there's been a lot of not giving a shit over the years, particularly in the USB world, what with mini USB, and micro USB and USB itself with general shitness. It's just a shame that USB-C couldn't solve the last mile of usability.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

It’s wild! If only there was a way of differentiating different versions of the same thing with some wild identifier, like … different colours! Could never work…

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/06/2026

Got a bedside charger from Anker that has a little screen that shows the wattage draw. Well, it turns out I've been using cables that can't handle more than 12w to try to power a laptop from a 65w charger. What a mess!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 09/06/2026

Did you play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle? I’ve been enjoying that.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/05/2026

It’s the summer holidays. For us that means 13 weeks of boys off school. They’re always relieved when it comes, but they’re always ready to go back… after three months off!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 27/05/2026

The problem is that every time something looks good, you peel back a layer or two and find rot, and it becomes “well, if everything is rotten…”

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 21/05/2026

Damn I need to detect the embed before cross-posting.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 21/05/2026

YouTube has been recommending Pentangle to me for a while, but this one is really doing it for me. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LmaGtC2yYmk?si=lTNQDKQOsbOEZRDZ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; au… paulca.com/posts/110

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 15/05/2026

Cool, b'fheidir go bhain mé triail as

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 15/05/2026

Tito as Gaeilge: blog.tito.io/posts/tito-a...

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Tito as Gaeilge

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 09/05/2026

The most beautiful thing to me about e-biking is the weight:load ratio. A 30kg bike carries 3 humans totalling 150kg. 5 times its own weight. We'll routinely whizz by 1600kg Range Rovers, typically carrying one adult, 0.05 times their own weight. And it's not even like… paulca.com/posts/109

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 09/05/2026

My e-biking plan today: - 3km with 2 boys - 12km with 1 boy - 8km with 1 boy - 10km with 2 boys - 4km solo - 5km with wife and 1 boy I packed the spare battery!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Got to see Madra Salach in a tiny venue in Dublin with about 70 others, and had the proud pleasure to be the ticket provider for the gig. I'll write a post on the Tito blog, but damn that was something special.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

He did follow the golden rule of attempting an Irish accent: pick one regional accent rather than trying to do "Irish". The girl in AKOTSK was going all over the map in her attempt.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

I had a cheeky look and my Chrome didn't autocomplete it. It's never trust that property though!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Our one is called `info` `name` might be autocompleted, but maybe?

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Let me know how it goes!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Get them and try them for crimes against the Irish accent. Except maybe Brad Pitt. Nobody seems to be able to make up their mind about his portrayal 😂

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

It's a combination of a few minimal techniques. The first is hashcash on first interaction, which does a small proof-of-work algorithm. At the same time, there's a 3 second timer, so the form can't submit before that. Any submission within 3 seconds of page load is rejected. And _then_ a honeypot 😀

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Within 1 day of putting the contact form live on pro.tito.io/home we had over 100 spammy submissions. I was determined to solve it without a captcha. Used a few little tricky techniques but nocaptcha. Enquiries dried up to a trickle so I assumed it was broken, but no, just effective!

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Why does it always take a crisis to shift the status quo?

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

It just occurred to me that US and UK folks probably can't tell when an Irish actor is doing an American or British accent. Almost always, that _definitely_ doesn't work the other way. If you want an Irish accent in your production, the safest choice will always be an I… paulca.com/posts/106

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

The one thing I couldn't believe about "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" was that after casting an Irish actor and encouraging him to use his (real) Irish accent, they cast two kids for a flashback scene and had them do Oirish accents. There needs to be a forever rule in… paulca.com/posts/105

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 30/04/2026

Finished "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" last night. I really enjoyed the book, and the graphic novel. I feel like people who make Game of Thrones stuff should simply never diverge from the books. The TV representations are at their best when they follow the books.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 26/04/2026

10yo took himself off for (decaf) coffee and pastry this morning. Sent me a picture of the table when he got there. Definitely my son.

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 25/04/2026

Best thing about “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” so far: Irish actor speaking in Irish accent and it’s grand. No bother. I guess Liam Cunningham sort of did that in the original series?

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 24/04/2026

If you want to support a more equitable society and believe better is possible, Kim Crayton is a great educator for white people who want to understand oppression and learn from it. You should subscribe: www.lifebeyondthesupremacymyth.com/…

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