ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy
@hughsheehy.com
Irish. Sailor. Engineer. Former dog walker.
I talk sense and use facts.
You may or may not like that.
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CEO http://goeve.com
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I talk sense and use facts.
You may or may not like that.
Human
CEO http://goeve.com
https://linktr.ee/hughsheehy
BE, MBA, patents
🇮🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇳🇱🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇪
#evcharging #electrictransition #climatechange
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ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy
@hughsheehy.com
· Oct 24
Why Ireland is not a British isle
A brief history of Ireland and why it is not a British isle.
medium.com
Watching the racist loons in the UK talking about how they aim to save the British Isles, it seems particularly timely to repeat a simple fact you may not be aware of.
Ireland is not a British isle.
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Ireland is not a British isle.
medium.com/o6o-internat...
A take on a Chinese EV that should have all US and Euro auto-makers sweating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H...
Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked?
Xiaomi (yes, that Xiaomi) made a ridiculously good car for the price.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A take on a Chinese EV that should have all US and Euro auto-makers sweating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H...
My skepticism about "Agile" is well known. This report (see image) was linked from a recent IEEE article on failures in software projects. It suggests that I'm right about "Agile".
The IEEE article is here. It's quite serious, even a bit dull.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
The IEEE article is here. It's quite serious, even a bit dull.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My skepticism about "Agile" is well known. This report (see image) was linked from a recent IEEE article on failures in software projects. It suggests that I'm right about "Agile".
The IEEE article is here. It's quite serious, even a bit dull.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
The IEEE article is here. It's quite serious, even a bit dull.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
Every now and then I bump into stuff I did long ago. The Brent field is gone now, but it did a job at a time it was needed. Let's make it - or anything like it - not needed again. youtu.be/r0szeqVsk0Y?...
Brent Charlie: End of an Era
A look back on the incredible engineering and significance and of the Brent oil and gas field as it marks the final end of production and ongoing…
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every now and then I bump into stuff I did long ago. The Brent field is gone now, but it did a job at a time it was needed. Let's make it - or anything like it - not needed again. youtu.be/r0szeqVsk0Y?...
As always with the IEEE, worth a read. This time on software projects and avoiding failure.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.
spectrum.ieee.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As always with the IEEE, worth a read. This time on software projects and avoiding failure.
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
This is pretty sad to see.
Answers to FOrrest Brown questions on R&D Tax Credit.docx
goeve562-my.sharepoint.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is pretty sad to see.
Are there new ways of evading the often enormous basic physical (i.e. physics) issues that would make an orbiting data center seriously tricky, and I've somehow missed them? Power, latency, cooling, maintenance (let's ignore installation), hard radiation, etc.
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Are there new ways of evading the often enormous basic physical (i.e. physics) issues that would make an orbiting data center seriously tricky, and I've somehow missed them? Power, latency, cooling, maintenance (let's ignore installation), hard radiation, etc.
I made pasta carbonara the classic Italian way the other day. No cream. Just eggs and cheese. Bloody lovely. And a doddle to make. Why did I not learn this recipe before?
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I made pasta carbonara the classic Italian way the other day. No cream. Just eggs and cheese. Bloody lovely. And a doddle to make. Why did I not learn this recipe before?
Seems a simple question. What's the answer where you work?
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seems a simple question. What's the answer where you work?
Pleased to be featured in Business Plus this week. Lots of people out there doing good work on EV charging and - in general - on solving the energy issues and climate change
What we've been doing in Go Eve aims - above all else - at making the EV transition easier. And it does.
What we've been doing in Go Eve aims - above all else - at making the EV transition easier. And it does.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pleased to be featured in Business Plus this week. Lots of people out there doing good work on EV charging and - in general - on solving the energy issues and climate change
What we've been doing in Go Eve aims - above all else - at making the EV transition easier. And it does.
What we've been doing in Go Eve aims - above all else - at making the EV transition easier. And it does.
Xiaomi has gotten to 500,000 cars in a fraction of the time taken by any other automaker, ever. Leapmotor got from 500,000 to 1,000,000 faster than any other automaker, ever. You might not even ever have heard of Leapmotor.
The EV revolution is not coming. It's here.
The EV revolution is not coming. It's here.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Xiaomi has gotten to 500,000 cars in a fraction of the time taken by any other automaker, ever. Leapmotor got from 500,000 to 1,000,000 faster than any other automaker, ever. You might not even ever have heard of Leapmotor.
The EV revolution is not coming. It's here.
The EV revolution is not coming. It's here.
Good idea.
Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data."
New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing | TechCrunch
Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data."
techcrunch.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good idea.
Waves in Ireland.
youtu.be/zXyo6L3fqjU?...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Waves in Ireland.
youtu.be/zXyo6L3fqjU?...
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Slumming it tonight.
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Slumming it tonight.
Whooping cough, ffs.
“An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the deadly bacteria in the state this year. Before 2025, Kentucky had last recorded an infant whooping cough death in 2018.”
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Whooping cough, ffs.
Meantime, Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and colleagues. If you were travelling, I hope that went well too!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Meantime, Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and colleagues. If you were travelling, I hope that went well too!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
An odd take on the housing crisis. The political center-right and the center-left and the left and most of the right should all try to solve the housing crisis - for a LOAD of reasons. And, for a load of reasons, none of them have any intention of it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
An odd take on the housing crisis. The political center-right and the center-left and the left and most of the right should all try to solve the housing crisis - for a LOAD of reasons. And, for a load of reasons, none of them have any intention of it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It's easy to chase the same metrics as everyone else. Easy and often unhelpful.
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
Rory Sutherland on fat-tailed marketing and why creativity outperforms efficiency
The biggest wins in marketing rarely fit into neat dashboards. Marketing guru Rory Sutherland joins us to unpack why creativity is “fat-tailed,” how a few outlier ideas create the lion’s share of…
wfanet.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's easy to chase the same metrics as everyone else. Easy and often unhelpful.
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
Anyone else remember Ratners?
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Anyone else remember Ratners?
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist walked into a bar, and other such thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
Jokes about engineers, physicists and mathematicians. And how they help understand.
People are different.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist walked into a bar, and other such thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
Interesting. The Cloudflare outage earlier this week was caused by two minor mistakes. The second mistake allowed the first one to cascade onto essentially all of the production machines and break them.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Interesting. The Cloudflare outage earlier this week was caused by two minor mistakes. The second mistake allowed the first one to cascade onto essentially all of the production machines and break them.
Ireland doesn't do enough on defense. But at the same time we're stripping what little we have to give it to Ukraine. And that feels like the right thing to do.
Ireland has quietly delivered five air defense radar systems, likely Giraffe Mk IVs, alongside 34 vehicles and three bomb disposal robots to Ukraine. The radars, mounted on tracked platforms, can detect low-flying threats up to 50 km away. Ireland also pledged €66M via the EU for non-lethal support.
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ireland doesn't do enough on defense. But at the same time we're stripping what little we have to give it to Ukraine. And that feels like the right thing to do.
AIs - or LLMs - still can't reliably tell the time. Another nice article (with link to the underlying study) from the IEEE. AIs only seem to be smart. Doubt EVERYTHING they tell you - perhaps unless it's the text summarization task that they do seem pretty good at.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
AIs - or LLMs - still can't reliably tell the time. Another nice article (with link to the underlying study) from the IEEE. AIs only seem to be smart. Doubt EVERYTHING they tell you - perhaps unless it's the text summarization task that they do seem pretty good at.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
Original grok post in French.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok denying the Holocaust here
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Original grok post in French.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Take that JFK and Ronald Reagan.
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Take that JFK and Ronald Reagan.
As a small country, Ireland doesn't often have great days in soccer.
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
As a small country, Ireland doesn't often have great days in soccer.
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...