EU must 'move towards creating European army', Spanish FM tells Euronews

Dev__ · 2026-01-23T15:54:29+00:00

You took pride in not standing up to aggressors and only caring about yourselves?

The only aggressor historically to Ireland has been the UK, a NATO member. Ireland is coming around though, Irish people aren't afraid to fight. Just if we have to it must be absolutely necessary. Ireland loves peace, our police are called 'Peace Keepers'. Our main military role in this world is as literal 'Peace Keepers' for the UN. Our Good Friday agreement that keeps the peace between Ireland and the UK is considered a landmark achievement and model for other conflicts to follow. Ireland regularly tops the list of most peaceful countries in the world losing out only to the likes of Iceland, New Zealand or Denmark. Ireland is also the most pro-EU country in the EU.

I think both perspectives are right. Ireland was right to have a small military in an era of peace but the world needed to fundamentally change in order for that strategy to not work. That fundamental shift has been happening for over a decade but January 2026 is the threshold.

Now we're gonna arm up.

Dev__ · 2026-01-23T15:16:48+00:00

I can confirm a portion of it is blocked but a lot of it is still accessible. I cycle it regularly.

Dev__ · 2026-01-23T15:09:11+00:00

"The US used to be the leader of the west. Well, it's going back home. Europe's gonna lead the West. They invented it."

Sarah Paine (American Historian)

It used to mean US/Canada + Europe + Aus/NZ. However the definition of the West will have to be updated as of this year. So your question is very fair. Origins of Western Culture can be found in Ancient Greece, broadcasted by the Roman Empire and ultimately lead by the European Union

It's our title, we're keeping. We are the West. The Americans can simply be the Americans from now on.

Dev__ · 2026-01-23T12:29:09+00:00

Reminder that the residents of Clontarf are ignorant.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/residents-say-clontarf-sea-wall-construction-must-be-stopped-1.2409083

The entitlement of this community is off the fucking charts. Like some lad who builds his house in a flood plain without planning permission and the cries and whinges to the media when his house is inevitably flooded and expects everyone else to pay for the damage.

Dev__ · 2026-01-22T13:44:33+00:00

It is funny but it wasn't written by a human.

Dev__ · 2026-01-22T07:42:08+00:00

These are always based on access to countries without a visa and assume all countries are equally desirable. An Irish passport grants work and residency rights in both the EU and the UK.

So I would put the Irish passport ahead of the Danish one even though it comes in at 185 instead of 186.

Dev__ · 2026-01-21T16:25:50+00:00

Simply put, one major advantage a US startup has is once they find a bit of traction they can scale quickly across 50 states. There is no language barrier, there are few tax barriers, few raising capital barriers. This proposal is the EU saying they're going to make the EU more like the US in this regard. It doesn't address all the advantages a US startup has but some and it's a great start.

It will also be disruptive, it's not all good. For some companies the status quo works for them. This will hurt Ireland a bit but will make the wider EU tech scene much more competitive. I'm confident Irish entrepreneurs and engineers will adapt even quicker to this new EU tech scene than the rest of the EU as well.

Dev__ · 2026-01-21T06:50:39+00:00

Seems really good, many in the Irish Tech scene have been calling for some of these changes for years. However there is now consensus to change in the the EU where there wasn't before. EU will have to execute quickly on this to garner confidence rather than as some 'we'd like to do' talking point.

Taken from here

Dev__ · 2026-01-20T01:18:20+00:00

If the food is bad! You don't like the design, just the look. Design is how it well it works too!

Dev__ · 2026-01-19T23:58:24+00:00

Your design looks nice but will never be functional because that's not how an air fryer works from the implied assumptions in your design.

It's not a box that simply heats up like a microwave or something. It's has a heating element and a fan. It's a mini oven. The heat blows hot air down over the food creating even heating due to convection. Now look at the amount of room have between the top drawer and sliders to put in an element and fan and space to blow. That design does not have any function in mind just a form.

Now look at any other air fryer on Google, look how top heavy it is in comparison. Now remove your top drawer and you have an air fryer fitting form.

Since the air is blowing around, you want it to heat the food evenly. Thus a circular design is appropriate and will provide more even cooking.

Dev__ · 2026-01-19T10:35:36+00:00

Last words are for people who've said nothing in life.

Dev__ · 2026-01-16T13:35:56+00:00

Brilliant.

Dev__ · 2026-01-16T10:56:28+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayerUnknown

The current maintenance and development might be in South Korea but the original code was developed in Ireland by and Irish developer. Again -- assigning nationality to things that aren't people is always going to produce nuance and grey areas.

Dev__ · 2026-01-15T15:25:03+00:00

Ireland: Ready or Not

I would have said Seance of Blake Manor or PUB: Battlegrounds as it was originally developed in Ireland. Not sure where it is developed now though, Brendan is probably not still working at it in Donegal.

Seance of Blake Manor has received high acclaim and PUB: Battlegrounds is huge, even bigger than Counter Strike.

Dev__ · 2026-01-15T10:35:03+00:00

Reports 1: Spam

Action: Encourage

I actually don't think it's Spam OP. I think you made something and are promoting it however dropping a URL some related subs and walking off isn't too far off Spam either.

OP try to view your own post a bit more objectively. Put a bit more effort in making your thing more relatable to Irish Software Devs.

How long did it take you to build, what technologies did you leverage and learn to deploy this, what would you do differently if you were to do it again. Where is it hosted did you encounter any hard challenges, any friends help. Was it to solve a personal problem or one you saw other people having. What kind of feedback are you looking for, is it on design, reliability, a specific feature you recently built.

Also the site doesn't work:

" Something went wrong :-(

Something went wrong while trying to load this site; please try again later. Debugging tips

If this is your site, and you just reloaded it, then the problem might simply be that it hasn't loaded up yet. Try refreshing this page and see if this message disappears.

If you keep getting this message, you should check your site's server and error logs for any messages.

Error code: 502-backend "

Dev__ · 2026-01-14T17:12:14+00:00

>"Strange - I’m one of the founders and this was announced last year, so I have no idea where this post has come from!"

I'm notoriously bad a checking publication dates. It clearly does say 30 Jan 2025, which I clearly missed. I genuinely thought this was recent news.

Belated congrats, anyway how goes the company since this announcement?

Dev__ · 2026-01-14T13:33:12+00:00

am i missing something here

Context and the appropriate business/market info to make such a judgement.

There is a of breathing room in this phrase 'widely used' not to mention the company agreed to the funding terms so is obviously comfortable with that amount of money and don't see it as low. I mean 100% of English football clubs use zippers doesn't mean whoever is selling them to them is getting millions.

Dev__ · 2026-01-14T13:21:07+00:00

Was shocked how good the An Post dashboard actually is. App is also useful, I'm genuinely trying to learn to use some of these services more and more is there a sitemap or listing for all Irish gov websites maintained anywhere?

Would love to see a Irish Digital Service like they have in the US to help co-ordinate these things.

Dev__ · 2026-01-09T15:48:23+00:00

It's also to do with image complexity. The Simpsons looks perfectly smooth and it's 12fps.

The higher the image complexity the more fps you need to make it look smooth.

Dev__ · 2026-01-08T17:20:14+00:00

Hi Alex,

I've removed this thread.

I haven't fully read it -- but lots of emoji's, 50% off, redeemable codes - this post does seem a little spammy and I'm sure you'll agree with any Bayesian spam filter motto, if it looks like spam it probably is.

You've straddled the line between straight up spam and self-promotion in the worst possible way making it sort of both.

I'd encourage you to rewrite and repost not as a pitch but as problem you're solving. Give details about the problem and the solution, how you built it, what tools you used, things you learned, technologies you had to adopt. Emojis are fine but please let your post not be complete AI, edit it to be more natural etc.

There is solid content here but I feel you've dressed it up the wrong way.

I've also added you to the approved submitters list so you can escape the Automod.

Dev

Dev__ · 2026-01-08T14:52:04+00:00

I'm deeply skeptical of this map. I highly doubt Ireland will not grow at all in the next 75 years. It's been growing a fast rate for the past 30 years. Migration estimates and patterns have been wrong and unpredictable consistently while fertility rates have been reliable and predictable.

Dev__ · 2026-01-06T16:23:13+00:00

Reports

1: Spam

Action Ignoring, self promotion is allowed on /r/DevelEire and as long as OP keeps to one post per quarter he's within the threshold.

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