👋 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
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.
Last night I went out to Claremorris to see Blindboy Boatclub doing a live podcast show. I was given the ticket for my birthday and Louise was supposed to be going with me too but she was in Portlaoise with Éabha.
On mastodon, I follow an amazing Irish artist called Ciara and she so generously provided a line drawing of one of her Samhain pictures for smallies to colour in (and hopefully big smallies too, because I’m going to join in the fun)
I’ve been reading a lot of smaller blogs recently and have really enjoyed the shorter stream of consciousness posts that pop up in between the longer form, full on blog entries.
I had a GitHub Action that commented on Discussion posts if they had a specific label attached to them that stopped working suddenly this week. This was done through a Ruby script that is called by the GitHub Action.
We went for a walk today to celebrate Mother’s Day after the girls had handed over flowers, cards and presents that they’d variously made, bought or cajoled me into getting. We didn’t have a huge gap of time between athletics this morning and a birthday party this evening so I had to find something short and fun. I ended up finding a walk in Mulranny that was described as taking between one and two hours.
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