Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him)

The moon behind clouds with a tree branch in silhouette in the foreground.

Dark night in the west

That is why Pharoah is spending so long building a mausoleum..

Ooh Cheese and Chive rolls!

Half a hug
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Panenka
Beautiful Cracked Eyes
Ghost Mountain
Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall

The real horror is the "P/E ratio" (share price to earnings ratio - essentially how long would it take for the company to earn what it is capitalized at).

For Tesla: 308.1 meaning it would take over 308 years of current earnings to cover its market capitalisation.

That is utterly insane.

Number of shares x price per share.

In a normal time this will tell you how big a company.
In this case it tells you how much too high the share price is.

A small calf standing in a field with a roller behind it. It has new yellow tags in both ears.

Well Santa does not get everything right - but in his defence, what even is a "calf roller"?

A small black dog with blond highlights sitting on a wooden floor

Hope this wee chap helps

Is that a coffin under the tarpaulin?

In recent history only (then) Prince Andrew has done a worse "clearing my name" interview.

Image of a red fox with black paws standing over logo which reads "Dublin Inquirer"

In 2024 we gave up 3.5% of our revenue. This year it'll be 4%. To get there we added some €2,500 grants for "local" projects. Things I like that act as forces for good. One of these is @dublininquirer.com . If you can, please subscribe. They do fantastic things. www.dublininquirer.com/membership/

I think my skills are best suited to "clapper boy".

And of even more value in financial services is the ability to ask "what changed"?

One of the things I have started doing in event sourcing is to return any output from a projection as a structure of:

projection id {int}
projection version {int}
as of event number {int}
value

Then whenever this value is used you can perform a "is this still correct" test on it.

You could certainly look at when projector V2 is on the same event as projector v1 then switch them (programmatically).

How does it know it is caught up?
i.e. what if a new event is appended between it getting to the top and it flipping the feature flag?

"What am I supposed to be worried about now?"
(Current topic on @mrjamesob.bsky.social )

What is your acceptable false positive rate of this technology?

My script has been selected for filming in the film course "5 minute film" despite the fat that I was away for class this week.

I suspect this was a way of volunteering me for a lot of grunt work.

YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland The Blame Game: Flegs

For anyone who doesn’t understand the Flag situation at City Hall. This old clip from The Blame Game tells it quite well. #speirgorm youtu.be/o8JqKxrloQQ?...

There is no "wrong" way to do that part of the job - it seems.

Ask not for whom the belle toils,
She toils for you.

EventCentric 2025 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/) https://eventcentric.eu https://www.linkedin.com/company/eventcentric-eu The problem space for software is often the automation of… Ian Cooper - Automating Business Processes - EventCentric 2025

By the end of this talk you should feel comfortable understanding how to identify, model, and automate your organisations business processes.
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How will a rise in Japanese interest rates affect global markets? Investors worry about fallout from yen carry trade unwinding after speech by BoJ governor

"The world has changed and the old economic models no longer apply"

Meanwhile - back with the old economic models:

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(Gift article - first 3 views)

So the UK is going to have a mental health enquiry that is not allowed to mention COVID to follow on from the economic health enquiry that was not allowed to mention BREXIT.

Normal country lads. Very normal.

He just farted himself awake and is peering grumpily at me.

Mate - your spinal column is about a foot long. How can the front end not know what the back end is doing?

Our little black dog is the anti-Bagpuss.

When he wants to go to sleep he makes everyone else go to bed.

The irony of the nation which invented protectionist fuel economy regulation having to roll back fuel efficiency targets to save their own dying SUV industry...

Politicians.

You have to hand it to them...

In a plain brown envelope,
under the table.

Collage of prints from my site #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

One of the handwritten gift notes that I can include for free with all orders, if desired.

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Big day in our house. Kiddo received his Gr7 HPV vaccine. My dad died of oral cancer that could have been prevented by this amazing anti-cancer vaccine. My husband's research contributed to the development of Gardasil. Full circle here for us and we are all having big feelings about it. ❤️💉❤️