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Paul Swail

@paulswail.com

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Fractional CTO in Belfast, Ireland paulswail.com Also: ⚽️ 🎹 🏋️ 📚

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 21/09/2026

Can’t get to this screen quick enough when I’m added to yet another WhatsApp group

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 07/08/2026

Was in Belfast city centre yesterday for the Fleadh with family and friends. Best ever atmosphere I've experienced in the city. So much going on, a diverse mix of people and everyone getting on.

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 30/07/2026

In the new AI coding world, I'm even more bullish on a single git monorepo for the entire product (irrespective of deployment architecture). Currently working with a legacy product with granular repos, such a pain

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 11/06/2026

Wrote up something that's been bugging me about agent skills distribution... they get shared like npm packages but that mental model breaks down for the most common types of skills (workflows) paulswail.com/agent-skills...

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Agent skills don't travel well — Paul Swail

Agent skill distribution has a fundamental tension baked in: workflow is personal, but the tooling treats skills like dependencies.

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 02/12/2025

My city ❤️ ✊ www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

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Palestinian flag raised over Belfast City Hall

Councillors in Belfast have voted to erect the Palestinian flag over City Hall.

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 10/07/2025

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie

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Let Them Play

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 02/08/2023

Received unsolicited marketing email for a dev tool, went looking for unsubscribe button thinking it was just something I'd signed up for and forgotten about then seen this shady message:

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 22/07/2023

Chasing quick wins vs playing the percentages 🙈 Wordle 763 X/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩

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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 25/04/2023

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