Shane Tuohy

Today the HSE launched their long awaited Covid-19 tracking app built on the Google and Apple exposure notification framework.
I'm not going to spend time going over how this works here, because other people have done a much better job at this than I possibly could. If you want to understand how this works technically, Nicky Case has created an excellent comic explaining it...

Google Scholar is a great tool for finding research papers, throughout my PhD I’ve used it several times per week every week. It also does a great job of alerting you when your papers receive a new citation. There’s not really any value to this directly...

A few years ago, I used to use an original Xbox as an XBMC box, it recently occurred to me that there was a perfectly good 500GB hard drive sitting in there doing nothing, so I bought a hard drive caddy and decided to salvage it.
It’s not just a case of pulling the old drive out and putting it into the hard drive enclosure, which I found out the hard way. You first have to unlock the Xbox drive, as for some reason, Microsoft decided that they would lock Xbox hard drives using...

It’s been a good few months for me and Linux. One by one, all the reasons that I’ve kept a Windows partition around have disappeared. Football Manager now runs on Linux, the Zune HD can be synced in Linux, and now Sky Go can be used under Linux too.
Sky Go uses Silverlight, which has had a Linux implementation before now in Moonlight, but it didn’t support the DRM that Sky uses. However, a new project called Pipelight supports DRM and works like a charm....