New Year’s resolution: shorter standups. Reality: “Just one more thing…” #Agile #Scrum #Columbo

New Year’s Day standup: Yesterday: too much celebrating Today: coffee Blockers: everything #Agile #Scrum

Oh noes, OpenAI think we're not the bestest of countries

Wow phys.org/news/2025-12...

If you start listening to this recording of Orlando Gibbons' 'This is the Record of John' at 23:58.13 on New Year's Eve, midnight will strike as John says "NO". Start 2026 the right way. youtu.be/l7Rj1Z-fqaI?...

Happy Wran's Day! The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year. "Up with the kettle And down with the pan Give us a penny to bury the wran" Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Nollaig shona dhuit, agus athbhliain faoi mhaise dhuit. #Cymraeg #Gaeilge

Boy what day is it? Christmas Eve! What time is it? Round one o'clock! What's the wifi like? Holding steady! Is YouTube still up? Not a bother on it! Then it's not too late! Cratchit! Post the video! Is Tiny Tim dead yet? Jaysus he's in his nineties now, what were they feeding him at all? #speirgorm

Definition of Done for Christmas: Laughter Full bellies No one checking Jira #Xmas #Agile

Merry Christmas to the best the now deceased Irish Twitter had to offer. #Speirgorm

Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm

Isn't there a Grand Stretch in the Evening? #GrandStretch #speirgorm

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Christmas backlog refinement is just everyone arguing about whether roast potatoes are a feature or a dependency. #Agile #Xmas #DontGetMeStartedOnSprouts

Remember, Agile is about delivering value early. So we opened the good wine at 11am and called it a win. #Agile #Xmas

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This morning at #Newgrange #SpéirGhorm #Neolithic #Solstice

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Christmas Scrum update: Gifts wrapped Diet maintained Blocked by Quality Street #Agile #Xmas

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

A post from UK lawyer Neil Brown, who I very much respect A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, & doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone decoded.legal/blog/2025/12...

Santa’s running SAFE now. Instead of one guy delivering everything, it’s 14 teams of elves synchronising at PI Planning while Mrs. Claus cries in the bathroom. #Agile #Xmas

What do we want? "Plygain"! When do we want it? 3 o'clock on Christmas Morning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdz... #wales #cymru #plygain

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Atlassian has put F1 racing game into Confluence. "To disable the Car Racing Easter Egg feature, contact Atlassian Support. There is currently no in-product toggle for end-users to turn off this feature themselves". Imagine the JIRA card for it & pushing this above actual bugs & improvements. #FFS

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

People talk about the dragon on our flag. They rarely talk about our skeletal rap battle demanding horse #MariLwyd #wales #cymru

Thought for the day: be back home before the street lights come on #70s #Freedom #Responsibility

#TheGrandAuldStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack #SpeirGorm

😂 From the Carmelite church in Kildare, Ireland. (Apologies, I have no video credit, as it was a WhatsApp forward). #SpeirGorm

The Mab - a modern take on the Mabinogion with a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life after being rescued from destruction

Yeah, I really think this is a good thing to do. My 30s and my 40s have been marked by me getting back into to lots of things (D&D, Warhammer, video and board games) that I loved as a kid and abandoned as a young man to fit in. Basically, relearning how to play.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Ideas are common, but not equally distributed. Some people try to force meme their sole idea for their entire lives. For a certain class of person, that idea is "what if we could deskill workers?" And so (decades before computing became male-dominated) tech has been trying to replace developers.

Psychological safety isn’t a soft skill. It’s a productivity multiplier for Scrum teams. #Agile #Scrum #Safety

Quite a good set of questions.

Dublin Zoo has performed the first ever recorded cataract surgery on a common hippopotamus worldwide.

New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one. It's government by Dunning-Kruger. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...

If your team is quiet in stand-ups, it’s not introversion, it’s usually a safety issue. #Agile #Scrum #Safety

Scrum without psychological safety = sticky notes on autopilot. Scrum with psychological safety = real change. #Agile #Scrum #Safety

The new link to the #SpeirGorm feed. Pass it on!

High-performing Scrum teams share one trait: they feel safe learning out loud. #Agile #Scrum #Safety

The Four Stages of #LateLateToyShow emotion

Ok that's enough now Toy Show. Some of us have already used all our tissues #latelatetoyshow #toyshow

And now, the winner of the Inaugural Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence!