James Gallagher

47, living in rural Co. Roscommon, Ireland ..

Big fan of cats. Missing commuter cycling from when I lived in Dublin

Experimenting with being on mastodon.ie too: @JamesTheCiotog

I was on Twitter as @jamesgallagher too

James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-17

An #IrishRail InterCity service Dublin accelerating out of #Maynooth along the #RoyalCanal on its way to Sligo. On the one hand this is a location I’ve used a lot so I was reluctant to share another, but with that beautiful early summer weather I just couldn’t resist 🙂

A landscape shot of a silver and dark green railcar-type train with a yellow nose and a rounded look approaching along the far bank of a perfectly still canal with a towpath on the left bank with a stone wall on it’s left side. Both sides of the scene are lines with trees and there is a bluer sky with a dappling of very small and thin fluffy clouds overhead.
2025-05-17

@davidnjoku This is something of a hot take and potentially touching on a sensitive subject. You’ve noted before how many countries have Nigerian athletes now - I look at Ireland where a lot of second generation Nigerian-Irish folks are killing it in sports. Rhasidat Adeleke being the incredible stand out. Is there a talent drain effect coming into play here? Hasn’t impacted other countries (yet?)

2025-05-16

@steggy Chercher on 9th
Edit: Sorry, forgot to paste the link chercherrestaurant.com

2025-05-16

Had Ethiopian food for the first time this week (I was in Washington DC for a work thing for a couple of days and had seen a mention somewhere there was a good selection of places to eat it there). Oh wow! So, so good. Really must try to get to gursha.ie in Dublin some day
#food #EthiopianFood

2025-05-16

@rob Sorry to hear that .. hope it becomes less of a burden (as much as it can!)

2025-05-16

@rob Any chance you’d be suitable to have an anti-emetic prescribed?

James Gallagher boosted:
Ben Royce 🇺🇦benroyce
2025-05-10

Jessica McCarty @jmccarty_geo
At a NASA Earth meeting 10 years ago, a white male post doc interrupted me to tell me that I didn't understand human drivers of fire, that I def needed to read McCarty et al.
Looked him in the eye, pulled my long hair back so he could read my name tag.
"I'm McCarty et al."
James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-09

Are there any European based translation apps available similar to Google Translate, but not Google or MS?

Looking for English to French, Dutch, Flemish in the short term and access to other European languages later? TIA x

James Gallagher boosted:

If you're curious about why a user or server has been blocked, and feel the need to ask the responsible party why it happened:

Please for the love of fucking crisps ask them via direct message.

NOT. PUBLIC. At best you risk sending a bunch of tedious dicks their way.

At worst you're going to alert some absolute fucking oddball who will make that person their hobby for a number of years.

Value the sanity of safety of mods.
If you don't the whole job is fucked.

James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-04

Hello fediverse friends, I would like a favor from you folks. I have spent the last year toiling away on my capstone project for a BSc degree.

It's a website that lets you track your own job applications.

Could you help do a user evaluation for the website and fill out a survey?

Website: apptrax.nigelb.systems/
Documentation: apptrax.nigelb.systems/docs/us
Usability Survey: bit.ly/apptrax-usability

James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-04

@foone
Not trivial with the error correction and redundency in QR codes. This is a working QR code after all.

2025-05-02

@ronanmcd ah, you’re still sound all the same 😂

James Gallagher boosted:
Enfys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍⚧ 🔜 Outlineenfys@wetdry.world
2025-05-02

Fedi via Teletext has to be one of the best ideas I've had in a while

A photo of a TV displaying a teletext page of a toot, it says "Enfys, enfys, This is a test toot!! Please ignore this toot... Or don't, you'll find out what it's for soon enough :) 02/08/2025, 14:08:14
2025-05-02

@brad Have you thought about getting a nice little stand for it .. maybe a small tasteful spotlight

James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-02

youtu.be/XIR35CgBfvM THE RUINATION HORNPIPE - in G Major. One of my own compositions, appearing for the first time at my YouTube channel today.

James Gallagher boosted:
jacquelines 🌟jacqueline@chaos.social
2025-05-02

it really does say a lot that LLM spam generated with the intention of being rude is genuinely hard to distinguish from your normal, garden-variety open source issue commenter

James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-01
James Gallagher boosted:
2025-05-01

🇦🇹🚄 A #QuickVacation starts best with a wonderful train ride together with a full menu. It was RJX 862 from #Vienna🇦🇹 to mountainous🏔 #Innsbruck🇦🇹 and a delicious clear root vegetable soup🍜, Vegan🌱 Szechuan Mapo Tofu with soft wheat🥢, Viennese mustard lentils with dumplings and fluffy Semolina flummery with strawberry🍓 rhubarb sauce at the #ÖBB🇦🇹 #diningcar 😍.

The ÖBB Taurus loco in red livery at Vienna main train station.Lentils dish in the sunlight at the dining car's table.Mapu tofu dish.The semolina flammery with the red strawberry sauce in a white bowl next to it.
James Gallagher boosted:
2025-04-30

#GameDev poll: if you were making a custom scripting language for narrative games, would you try to make a pretty general purpose language with a few extra affordable to make some things easier, or make a detailed design of the kind of game you want to make and make a DSL that is very strongly tailored for that? Or maybe just a framework in Lua or something?

What do you think are the pros and cons of each approach? Help me think. I've been struggling with this for a year.

Please boost

2025-04-30

@richardtroupe Pimsleur gets recommended a lot and I see it has Irish

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