Joe Drumgoole
@joedrumgoole.com
Dev Rel and Data Guy. Entrepreneur. Investor. A geek.
Fractional GTM at Selr.ai
Fractional GTM at Nyrkio.com
Fractional GTM at Selr.ai
Fractional GTM at Nyrkio.com
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Joe Drumgoole
@joedrumgoole.com
· Jan 11
There is only one way to combat Facebook. Leave the platform. Not just stop using it, delete your account. Expecting them to "do better" is a farcical dream.
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"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential."
This week's column, more personal than usual.
This week's column, more personal than usual.
Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing
Narrated by Liam Neeson.
www.thejournal.ie
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential."
This week's column, more personal than usual.
This week's column, more personal than usual.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Irish politcians engaging in their usual fire, ready, aim tomfoolery.
Because of external factors, this weekend’s Gist came out on Tuesday.
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Irish politcians engaging in their usual fire, ready, aim tomfoolery.
Fonts as an enemy of the state
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Fonts as an enemy of the state
2025 and adding a new keyboard to a windows laptop is still a pig of a job
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2025 and adding a new keyboard to a windows laptop is still a pig of a job
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Alternative take: who cares and why is the EU or anybody that doesn't like nazis, still on TwitteX? Just announce that you're leaving and say for where (here or whatever). My life has greatly improved by mothballing my account on the Fascist Platform & not even looking at it for a very long time
The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Alternative take: who cares and why is the EU or anybody that doesn't like nazis, still on TwitteX? Just announce that you're leaving and say for where (here or whatever). My life has greatly improved by mothballing my account on the Fascist Platform & not even looking at it for a very long time
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"Continuing to build more roads to alleviate congestion, especially in a geographically constrained city such as Dublin, is precisely the kind of failed thinking that has resulted in our capital becoming the 10th most congested city in the world."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Prof Brian Caulfield: Can anything be done to end M50 gridlock?
Motorway is daily inescapable reminder of Dublin’s status as world’s 10th most-congested city
www.irishtimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"Continuing to build more roads to alleviate congestion, especially in a geographically constrained city such as Dublin, is precisely the kind of failed thinking that has resulted in our capital becoming the 10th most congested city in the world."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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You’d never guess Elon Musk just got a fine for deceiving people on X
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
You’d never guess Elon Musk just got a fine for deceiving people on X
Hey @redmonk.com hope you saw the term chatgippty being used in the wild. I think James trademarked that :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te2I...
anthropic buys bun
YouTube video by ThePrimeTime
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hey @redmonk.com hope you saw the term chatgippty being used in the wild. I think James trademarked that :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te2I...
I've always found the standard web UI to @mongodb.bsky.social Atlas frustrating and not very developer centric, so I created my own Interface with the help of Claude. You will need an API key or a service account to use it: pypi.org/project/atla.... Docs are at atlasui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Client Challenge
pypi.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I've always found the standard web UI to @mongodb.bsky.social Atlas frustrating and not very developer centric, so I created my own Interface with the help of Claude. You will need an API key or a service account to use it: pypi.org/project/atla.... Docs are at atlasui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
How many USB transitions have you seen and do you still have this printer cable "just in case"?
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How many USB transitions have you seen and do you still have this printer cable "just in case"?
Just starting using @simonwillison.net's shot-scraper to annotate my documentation with auto-generated screen shots via Claude. Another watershed moment for Claude development.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Just starting using @simonwillison.net's shot-scraper to annotate my documentation with auto-generated screen shots via Claude. Another watershed moment for Claude development.
If the mantra of Social Media and Search was "everything is free", the mantra of AI is "everything costs"
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the mantra of Social Media and Search was "everything is free", the mantra of AI is "everything costs"
It takes 10 minutes to create a @mongodb.bsky.social Atlas cluster. Atlas desperately needs a fast starting, single node, throwaway cluster for development. Cap the CPU and Storage its for single developers and small teams anyway and make it start fast. Happy to pay for it, but make it cheap.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It takes 10 minutes to create a @mongodb.bsky.social Atlas cluster. Atlas desperately needs a fast starting, single node, throwaway cluster for development. Cap the CPU and Storage its for single developers and small teams anyway and make it start fast. Happy to pay for it, but make it cheap.
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Switched from AWS to Digital Ocean for development. Easier to use and they actually spent more than 100 dollars on the user experience. Cheaper as well.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Switched from AWS to Digital Ocean for development. Easier to use and they actually spent more than 100 dollars on the user experience. Cheaper as well.
2025 and MongoDB still takes 10 minutes to provision a new Atlas Cluster?
Unfortunately, They can't do this because they intricately wedded the name of the cluster to its creation and that name is immutable. Doh!
You can have have a fast cluster, but its called A567HGF :-(
Unfortunately, They can't do this because they intricately wedded the name of the cluster to its creation and that name is immutable. Doh!
You can have have a fast cluster, but its called A567HGF :-(
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
2025 and MongoDB still takes 10 minutes to provision a new Atlas Cluster?
Unfortunately, They can't do this because they intricately wedded the name of the cluster to its creation and that name is immutable. Doh!
You can have have a fast cluster, but its called A567HGF :-(
Unfortunately, They can't do this because they intricately wedded the name of the cluster to its creation and that name is immutable. Doh!
You can have have a fast cluster, but its called A567HGF :-(
THe combination of Claude Code and Amazon Q makes deploying to AppRunner very straightforward. Especially when you just let Claude brute force your configuration until it works.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
THe combination of Claude Code and Amazon Q makes deploying to AppRunner very straightforward. Especially when you just let Claude brute force your configuration until it works.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw
Best use of Claude Code to date, create full Sphinx docs for all my Python projects.
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Best use of Claude Code to date, create full Sphinx docs for all my Python projects.
So the Carribean Sea and Pacific Ocean are now free fire zones for the USA.
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So the Carribean Sea and Pacific Ocean are now free fire zones for the USA.
When working with Claude Code I now find I can work with two seperate projects simultaneously, prompting one while the other is doing work. Of course this burns through tokens at twice the rate.
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
When working with Claude Code I now find I can work with two seperate projects simultaneously, prompting one while the other is doing work. Of course this burns through tokens at twice the rate.
Top tip from @simonwillison.net :
Claude Code stores full logs of your sessions in ~/.claude/projects/encoded-directory/*.jsonl on your machine.
Claude Code has a nasty default behavior of deleting these after 30 days! But we can extend this...
Here is the fix : simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Claude Code stores full logs of your sessions in ~/.claude/projects/encoded-directory/*.jsonl on your machine.
Claude Code has a nasty default behavior of deleting these after 30 days! But we can extend this...
Here is the fix : simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Top tip from @simonwillison.net :
Claude Code stores full logs of your sessions in ~/.claude/projects/encoded-directory/*.jsonl on your machine.
Claude Code has a nasty default behavior of deleting these after 30 days! But we can extend this...
Here is the fix : simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Claude Code stores full logs of your sessions in ~/.claude/projects/encoded-directory/*.jsonl on your machine.
Claude Code has a nasty default behavior of deleting these after 30 days! But we can extend this...
Here is the fix : simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
One of the great values of vibe-coding with Claude Code is you never need to recreate your context window. Claude always has it. As a result you can easily sit down and do 20-40 minutes of useful work with multi-hour breaks in between.
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
One of the great values of vibe-coding with Claude Code is you never need to recreate your context window. Claude always has it. As a result you can easily sit down and do 20-40 minutes of useful work with multi-hour breaks in between.