Brian O'Donovan (aka BOD)

A while ago, I wrote the wordle_cheat program . It works by calculating a list of possible words that match the clues that you have been giv...

 I just discovered a very useful feature of PowerPoint called "performance coach". It allows you to practice presenting your slide...

Ireland introduced a postcode system called Eircode relatively recently in 2015. Controversially it is not possible to map from an eircode ...

  I recently read a New York Times article about cheating in Strava . It seems that there is a site dedicated to helping people falsify th...

Until recently Irish users were forced to use the https:amazon.co.uk  site. This was annoying because prices are quoted in pounds sterling r...

  Some time ago I wrote the wordle_cheat tool. Although I created it as an open source tool on GITHUB , I never thought anyone else would h...

Many Irish surnames (including mine) start with O'. This can be troublesome on websites that treat the apostrophe after the O as an unma...

My older brother Cormac is a Professor of Neurology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. This is impressive enough already, but now...

 My last post  to this blog was about a hack to eliminate advertisements on YouTube . I could see why Google would object to the post becaus...

  YouTube is a great site. It includes an amazing collection of educational and entertaining content. The only problem is that most videos ...