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"Vague memories, nothing but memories" is a technology blog by Mícheál Ó Foghlú. Perhaps it's more of a history of my interest in blogging technology, over the past decades (1999--present), rather than a deep mine of useful content. Like many people I have switched my micro-blogging style activities to social media in the past decade.

The title is taken from the Irish poet and playwright, W.B. Yates, from the poem Broken Dreams.

Blogging History

  • Current Blog (started 2014-02-03)
    • Originally used Node.js and Ghost
    • Switched to Go and Hugo 2020-03-01, returning to statically generated site
    • Switched to Zensical 2026-07-10, a modern Rust-powered static site generator
    • Hosted on Firebase Hosting
  • Previous Blog (started 2012-06-07)
    • Used Ruby and Octopress, first statically generated site from markdown
  • Original Blog (started 2002-02-06)
    • Originally used Perl and Greymatter
    • Switched to Perl and MovableType

Current Position

  • Engineering Director, Core, Google Ireland (Sep 2022)

Previous Positions

  • Engineering Director, Core Developer, Google Munich (Mar 2017)
  • CTO Red Hat Mobile RedHat.com (Oct 2014 to Feb 2017)
  • CTO FeedHenry Ltd. FeedHenry.com (2010 to Sep 2014).
  • Executive Director Research, Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) (2004 to 2010)
  • Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Mathematics & Physics in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). Note: the department used to be called the "Department of Physical & Quantitative Sciences" or abbreviated to "P&Q". (1996 to 2014)

Publications List

Hosting

This site is hosted on Firebase Hosting, built using Zensical, a modern static site generator by the Material for MkDocs team.

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