My name is Thomas Bibby, I live in Nenagh, Ireland. Read more about me» I am currently fooling about with Mastodon.
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- Untitled July 9, 2025Connecting Ireland is the National Transport Authority’s rural mobility programme. The review of Phase 3 of the programme has lots of happy numbers: in 2024 there were 17 new bus routes, 28 enhanced bus routes, 120,000 more kms per week, passenger journeys up 139% 2019-2024 and 38% 2023-2024 to 8 million journeys in the year. […]
- Untitled July 7, 2025Irish Rail now offer train tickets that automatically appear on your lock screen when it’s time to travel. Apple Wallet, so iPhone only for now.
- Untitled June 18, 2025Cooked: a combo of two Lidl recipes – Red Lentil Dhal and Hearty Lentil Curry. Needs at least an hour and minding a bit so the lentils don’t stick. Added a bit more liquid towards the end.
- Untitled June 15, 2025Cooked: Slow cooker veggie bolognese – BBC. Pretty good. Added a tsp of Marmite and more (frozen) mushrooms.
- Untitled June 8, 2025“Nobody would write a play entitled A Technically Equivalent Bus Named Desire” — Hacker News comment on an article about Very Light Rail in Coventry
- Untitled April 27, 2025Stephen White – rip.ie
- Untitled April 11, 2025Recent views from the bus: Mullranny Co. Mayo from Local Link route 978 to Béal an Mhuirthead, and Portroe Co. Tipperary from Bus Éireann route 323 to Limerick.
- Untitled March 13, 2025Very interesting notes from a talk given by Simon Willison to data journalists on advanced web scraping techniques
- Untitled March 10, 2025Bae Colwyn
- Untitled March 1, 2025The US government has axed 18F, an internal government tech consultancy: perhaps a minor event amidst the chaos in that country, but sad nonetheless. As an example of their work, this non-technical guide on how to reduce risk in software projects is excellent. https://guides.18f.gov/derisking/federal-field-guide/
- Untitled February 18, 2025Somehow “raddoppio selettivo” sounds a bit more fancy than plain old passing loops https://marcochitti.substack.com/p/the-long-modernization-of-the-italian
- Untitled February 9, 2025The calm of the 72 bus from Athlone to Limerick
- Untitled January 17, 2025Nenagh is becoming quite the transport hub. Taken just before noon on a Friday in January.
- Untitled December 31, 2024Interesting paper on the differing emissions impacts of long and short haul flights: “Flights of less than 500 km account for 26.7 % of flights but only 5.2 % of fuel burnt, while flights of 4000 km or more account for just 5.1 % of flights, but 39.0 % of fuel burnt.”
- Untitled October 20, 2024Housing unit completions in 2022 and 2023 in Ireland’s Southern Region (which includes the cities of Cork, Limerick and Waterford) by settlement type. From the Southern Regional Assembly’s submission to the Draft First Revision to the National Planning Framework, September 2024 (PDF).
- Untitled April 7, 2024The situation in Sudan and South Sudan is just heartbreaking. Powerful reporting by Sally Hayden in the Irish Times.
- Untitled April 2, 2024Know anyone living near Kells Co. Meath, or Virginia and Ballyjamesduff Co. Cavan? The National Transport Authority (NTA) has launched a public consultation on an enhancement to Route 187 between Kells and Virginia.
- Untitled March 9, 2024Proud to stand with over 50 people today in Roscrea at a vigil organised by the Tipperary Anti-Racism Network. Refugees welcome!
- Untitled February 17, 2024A rather rushed submission on the Slane bypass project, sent in before submissions closed yesterday
- Untitled December 30, 2023The first edition of this book by Jarrett Walker changed my life: it inspired me to quit my job as a software developer to go and work as a transport planner. I can’t wait to read the second edition, which you can preorder now.