👋 Hi, I'm MikeGriffin. I live in Castlebar, a town in Co Mayo, in the West of Ireland.
I enjoy running and being outdoors. I race over a range of distances from 200m to 10km.
I work as a Senior Engineer at GitHub, building internal tools for our support team. I mostly code in Ruby, but I'm also learning some Golang. I started off with PHP and bash scripting.
You can email me at me@mikegriffin.ie, and also find me on Mastodon at @maidhc@mastodon.ie
For the Mayo AC 5k series this year, the club asked members to write up a short profile by answering some running related questions which were then posted on the club website. I took part and my profile was added to the site in June.
I’ve reached a milestone of blood donations, twenty times and I was given a lovely reward pin to commemorate it
Last night I played my first full match for Castlebar Mitchels.
In the last few days every time I ran a Ruby command or anything to do with Rails or RubyGems, I got this warning:
There’s a new skatepark that opened a few weeks ago in Castlebar. Last night I brought Róise and Sadhbh down to check it out. Róise brought her roller blades and Sadhbh had her scooter and her roller skates in the car. I brought my skateboard and hoped I wouldn’t fall and break myself.
Louise has been going to a weights class every week for a few months now and she finally persuaded me to give it a go this evening. I left her with the girls at the pool and headed down, not really knowing what I was letting myself in for.
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