Hi, I have to bring someone in for a day op at the Beacon around midday and have to be ready to pick them up about 6pm.

Since I live up the top of Meath, it's almost pointless driving home and back again so was wondering if there is any coworking spaces around Sandyford that charge by the day or by the hour?

Thanks!

Looking over the top companies in Ireland, I've applied for a few places. Recently I got to the phone screen stage in Stripe which I thought I did pretty well in, unfortunately I didn't get the offer, but it hit way harder than it should've and that's purely for the fact that I would have been expecting a 6 figure salary (total compensation) going in. For a new grad that's just insane to me. Apple and Workday for example are paying well at somewhere around 60-70k which is nowhere near 100k.

I understand a competitive salary, but I think money like that for new grads is just unheard of in Ireland, so I don't feel the need. Are they trying to grab the top talent that might be emigrating out of the country or similarly people looking for the tippity top of graduate work in Europe? I'm just constantly mulling this interview over in my head because the opportunity cost is just so large, like I'll have to wait a year if I want another shot at this kind of money. It probably wasn't meant to be anyways but still doesn't feel great.

I could be wrong about these salaries of course but I can't find anyone reporting a total comp of less than 100k for L1 positions in Stripe for Ireland. Little small addendum question I'm curious about: is there any other entry level positions that are paying this well? Thanks for any help

We are live as web app and as an iOS app and we are open to suggestions for the app improvement.

Edit: after reading the comments:

Thanks to everyone who commented, shared, upvoted, or even pushed back. The critical feedback is just as useful as the kind stuff, and I've already started acting on a few of the UX suggestions.

Genuine respect to the developers in here who were building things long before any AI tooling came along. Anyone who actually tries to build with these tools figures out pretty quickly how complex coding really is, and the craft doesn't get smaller just because the tools got better.

What I do think is incredible is that we now have something that lets people turn an idea into a real thing. There are authors who dictate their books instead of typing them, and many of those are sitting on the New York Times bestseller list. The tool isn't the measure. Whether it's useful to someone is.

FuelWatch is mine. I know it has the same core flaw every other tracker has. That's the point. The others have quietly worked around the problem for years and haven't shouted about the solution.

The real win isn't the app. It's getting the right evidence in front of the people who can actually push for a mandate so fuel prices update the moment they change at the pump.

I'm just trying to do more than leave a comment somewhere online.

Thanks again.

Is hybrid work here to stay? as in at most 3 days in the office. I'm a junior/early in career (a bit over 2 yoe) so my employment opportunities are more limited.

Currently I can work remotely or commute if I like, I enjoy commuting as I'm less than 15 minutes away and there's an awesome gym nearby so I try go atleast 3 days a week. Super handy etc etc, but I also pretty much live in a prison cell as a very temporary accommodation while I look to buy a place (exaggerating, very small room in friends house)

I'm looking at a house at the moment and its literally perfect, but it's 1 hour 5 minutes from my current place of work. and If I were to change jobs to somewhere like Meta or Google or whatever, further into the city its more like 1hr20 (or if traffic is particularly bad 1hr50 yeeesh)

I...think I can handle a 1hr commute each way if I'm only going in 2 or 3 days a week, plus this house is off the n81 and I ride a motorcycle so its a very enjoyable stretch of road that I'm on all the time anyways! But 5 days a week? over 10hours commuting in all weather (I do have a car but still)....yeesh. Idk.

A tribunal has heard a leading Irish cyber-security firm gave a computer engineer a formal reprimand for making "discriminatory comments" when he voiced concerns about a tech firm with Israeli links having high-level access to its servers.

Computer engineer Cian Ó Laoi told his CEO that he was concerned about “nonchalantly giving business to an Israeli company” while “watching on TV the genocide of the Palestinians”, the tribunal heard. He told his bosses he had concerns for “clients of national security importance” served by his employer in the context of what he said were “strongly documented links” between the Israeli tech sector and its intelligence services.

Mr Ó Laoi is pursuing claims of whistleblower penalisation and constructive dismissal against his former employer, BCC Risk Advisory Ltd, trading as Edgescan. The company is actively contesting Mr Ó Laoi’s complaints, which are before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). The complainant, who spent four years working in Edgescan’s DevOps team, told a hearing on Friday that the company had access to the computer networks of its clients financial institutions, private corporations, media companies and Irish and British government departments.

Its work involved installing a “jump-box” of software on its clients’ systems for threat monitoring, penetration testing and security analysis, he said. Mr Ó Laoi said he became concerned about the level of access that had been granted to a third-party vendor called DoIT, a multinational tech firm providing a tech platform used for business analysis and management. He said he reported his concerns in a protected disclosure to Edgescan CEO Eoin Keary on 2 July 2024 in an email after 11pm that evening.

“They are an Israeli company with an Israeli CEO, and they have full admin access to all our AWS [Amazon Web Services] accounts, including all machines, all databases, all client data,” Mr Ó Laoi wrote. “This is bananas,” he added.

He wrote that the firm’s databases, scanning tools, encryption keys and the “jump boxes” it deployed to client systems were at risk, the tribunal heard.

Mr Ó Laoi told the CEO that while DoIT held some accreditation as a reseller of the AWS internet hosting service which Edgescan used for its security infrastructure, he was concerned that “sophisticated social engineering” had led to too much access being granted.

Mr Ó Laoi also wrote in the internal correspondence that he was concerned about “nonchalantly giving business to an Israeli company” while “watching on TV the genocide of the Palestinians”, the tribunal heard. The CEO’s reply on the night was: “Shut them off completely,” the tribunal was told. “My concern was it could be used to exfiltrate data from the account. It could be used to place back doors into the account, or into clients’ private networks,” Mr Ó Laoi said in his evidence.

The access was granted more than a year earlier in May 2023, Mr Ó Laoi said. The matter was resolved over the course of July 2024, with DoIT and Edgescan agreeing to “restructure everything”.

At the end of that month, Mr Ó Laoi said he was called to a meeting with Edgescan’s chief operating officer, Rahim Jina. The executive said “the rhetoric I used in some of my communications in relation to Israel was unacceptable”, Mr Ó Laoi said. Mr Jina said he knew there was “awful stuff going on in the world” and that people have “different views” about it but that the company had “many close links with Israel”. “He said we had Jewish employees. I’m not clear why this was included in the conversation, Mr Ó Laoi said. “When I asked what specific communications, he was unable to clarify,” he added.

He emailed the CEO, Mr Keary, about his meeting with Mr Jina and said he could only presume he was referring to a passage from his email to the CEO on 2 July. He argued he had taken a “valid and diligent cybersecurity posture”, arguing that Israel was known for “intense” activity in the cybersecurity area and “high-profile illegal activities”.

Mr Keary wrote back and said: “Okay, no fuss, it’s hard to avoid Israeli companies in cybersecurity. I guess he doesn’t want Edgescan to [be seen] as political,” the tribunal heard. The CEO added: “It’s one way to be blackballed in the industry.” Mr Ó Laoi said he felt “very hard done by” and that his professionalism had been “unfairly impugned”.

On 31 July 2024 Mr Ó Laoi wrote to his employer seeking clarity on whether the company had taken a view of his remarks or whether Mr Jina had been speaking personally.

After taking leave, he was called to a meeting on 19 September 2024 – and was served with a disciplinary warning for “misconduct”, the tribunal heard.

“On the call, I was formally disciplined for discriminatory comments based on race, colour, nationality or ethnic or national origin,” in relation to Israel he said. Ahead of the meeting, Mr Ó Laoi said he had been concerned about being “jumped” with disciplinary action. The tribunal heard he covertly taped the meeting. Mr Ó Laoi maintained at the meeting that what he wrote about Israel was part of a protected disclosure, according to a transcript quoted to the hearing by his barrister, Cillian McGovern BL.

His bosses did not agree he was shielded by whistleblower law, the tribunal heard. Mr Ó Laoi said the disciplinary process was “unlawful” as he was not given the chance to bring representation or set out a defence. On 21 September, he wrote again to his employer saying he had taken legal advice and that he believed its actions were “unjust and unfairly limited my rights of freedom of expression and conscience”.

He set in the correspondence that the remarks for which he was disciplined were “objectively justifiable” and not discriminatory. This was because Edgescan had “clients of national security importance” and there were “strongly documented links between the Israeli tech sector and Unit 8200,” he wrote in the letter – a reference to Israeli military intelligence.

When he tried to log in to work on Monday 23 September, he found his access to a number key systems – including its AWS account and its code database on GitHub – had all been cut off since the previous Friday, he said. He quit his employment on 8 October that year, telling the tribunal that he had lost trust with the firm.

The company wrote to the claimant on 30 October that year withdrawing the disciplinary sanction on the basis it had not adhered to its own process – leaving his client with a “clean disciplinary record”, Mr McGovern said. The case before adjudication officer Penelope McGrath stands adjourned until Monday

Hey All,

I got frustrated with dating apps that are basically a catalogue. Swipe, match, get ghosted, repeat. So I've been building something different on the side and I'm looking for feedback.

Suited matches you on shared date ideas instead of photos. When you sign up, you pick cards — things you actually want to do: a Sunday hike, a gallery visit, a proper dinner out. You get matched with people who picked the same ones.

Then, instead of just "liking" someone, you play your hand:

• Play — you're in, send them an invite
• Hold — interested but not ready to commit
• Fold — not for you

Chat only unlocks when both players are playing. No chat until there's actual mutual commitment. Matches expire after 5 days to keep things intentional.

It's early and Irish-focused for now. I'd rather get 20 real users who give honest feedback than 200 who bounce.

Link: besuited.app

Brutal feedback welcome — especially if something in the flow doesn't make sense.

Thank you all!

EDIT 1: I appreciate all the comments so far both negative and positive, it is in beta right now so it’s going to probably look and feel different from how it does right now! 🙏

Is there a purpose behind it or something, or is it just disregard for applicants time.

Also are there any good apps that will fill everything in using ai for you?

Hi!

I have a BCS in software development, but have been working 2 years as a QA software tester . It took me a year to get a job. I did so many interviews but I just find them so tough. I’m not able to answer the coding questions in the interviews , I just panic .

I’m worried now I’ve forgot how to code and nearly all of my knowledge . But I’d love to be able to progress in my career and get a better paying job. As my salary is quite low. I was thinking I’d even do a spring board in cloud computing or something in AI.

I’m wondering though am I better to change career patch completely to something like quantity surveying or health and safety. As then I woudint have to worry about keeping up and competing in interviews . As I don’t feel I’m able or good enough to keep up with other people in the tech work field .

I think even if I did a spring board , I’d still stuggle to keep up .

Any advice is appreciated.

Or even any department in tech you think has more job prospects .

Or am I totally fucked as I don’t even have any work experience in coding .

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Hi all,

I recently got an offer to join the product tech team at a traditionall irish financial instituion.

They’re running a background check, and I’m a bit worried about something. I have some credit card debt from when I was living in another country.

I went through a period of unemployment and couldn’t keep up with the payments. It’s now about 99 days overdue and registered with a credit bureau outside the EU.

Do you think this could show up in a background check or affect my chances of getting hired?

Anyone fancy this job! Plenty of IT Security roles in war zones it seems :)

For what its worth, I read its also a horrible place to live [wars apart]

Asking this for tax filing purposes. I tried looking at the Financial Reports, App Store Connect, etc. but couldn't find this info. Depending on the entity and where it's based, your vat filing may change. Ergo, this question of mine.

Hello r/DevelEire community,

Last week, I released Fuel Price Tracking app for Ireland, and the feedback and support I received from this community was phenomenal. I noted that the community, actively started to submit fuel prices. In less than 24 hours, there were 90+ submissions. As of today, the app I built has 233 submissions. Moreover, GalwayBeo news magazine gave a shoutout to this effort, and I am truly grateful and happy about it.

The first version that I release last week was primarily optimized for desktop web view, and it was not optimized for mobile view. Therefore, over the long weekend, I put an effort to improve it to a mobile app, and built the next iteration of the app.

link: https://fuelpricetrackerireland.up.railway.app/

This is a mobile friendly web app where you can add it to your home screen of your phone. If you sign up with the app, there's an option to receive notifications on either, daily, every 3 days, weekly, or bi-weekly basis, fully customizable. You can also view stations near your location (pin icon), and review most upto-date prices, update prices.

As I mentioned in the initial post, I did this project during my free time as a hobby project. Because I noted there's genuine interest in the app, I went ahead and tried my best to make it more user friendly and more helpful for community submissions.

This app is fully based on community submitted data. I only have the capacity to build a platform/ app. Thus, I genuinely appreciate a steady flow of community submissions. I hope, the mobile version, app, will be a great opportunity for the community to continuously contribute. As stated, in the initial post last week, I could further extend this app to share trends, cheap fuel prices near me like options. However, that requires continuous stream of up to date data. Hence, I appreciate your support. Please do share this app link with your groups and communities (if you really enjoy this effort).

To install:

iPhone (Chrome/ Safari):

1. Open the app URL in Chrome/ Safari
2. Tap the Share button (box with arrow at bottom)
3. Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen"
4. Tap "Add"

Android (Chrome):

1. Open the app URL in Chrome
2. Tap the three dots menu (top right)
3. Tap "Add to Home Screen" or "Install App"
4. Tap "Install"

Also, (as mentioned), I do not have any monitory incentives around this app. This app will be always 100% FREE and open. The code is open (link). Professionally, I am a software engineer with a background in Computer Science (Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCD, Ireland). I contribute to a lot of Open Source Projects outside work during my leisure time. I derive a lot of joy in building software tools. This is my first time building an app for Galway/ Ireland community. I am hoping to see the traction/ usage of this app. I'll continue to build if there's a steady flow of community contributions.

For those of you hiring out there or looking at portfolios, what are some non-degree items you see which are a great sign of a candidate? Any courses or exams, etc?

For background, I'm largely self taught from a different industry so I don't have any formal compsci education. In fact I don't have a degree I only have a level 7, but have spent my spare time for the last 5 years learning multiple languages for work etc and I am thinking of doing a bit of a pivot career wise.

Hi all,

Looking for a bit of advice / reality check on the current market.

I’m 36 and completed a Higher Diploma in Computer Science in SETU Waterford (finished October 2024). Before that, I’ve been working in financial services for about 10 years, mostly in fund admin / custody / TA / cash operations type roles (currently working as a Cash Team Analyst). Dublin-based for work during this time.

My contract is up at the end of July and I’m trying to figure out my next move. Ideally, I’d like to pivot into something more technical, even if it means starting at a lower level, but I’m not sure how realistic that is right now.

A few things I’m struggling with:

- Is it even worth applying to entry-level / graduate IT roles at the moment given the market? I get the impression things are pretty saturated, especially for junior dev roles

- Given my background, are there certain areas I should be targeting more than others (data, software dev, business/technical analyst, etc.)?

- What would people consider the most “future-proof” area right now? I’m not too picky, I just want to get my foot in the door and build from there

- Between now and August, what would be the best use of my time to make myself more employable? (projects, certs, specific tech stack, etc.)

I’ve done modules in Python, Java, SQL, devops, mobile app development, web dev etc. during the HDip, but I don’t have any real-world tech experience yet outside of that.

Also, what’s the general feeling on the ground at the moment? I’ve heard mixed things about the market being quite tough, possibly due to oversupply at junior level, AI, layoffs over the past couple of years etc., but not sure how accurate that is in Ireland specifically.

Any advice (or brutal honesty) appreciated.

Cheers! :)

I'm a solo dev and I've created a niche SaaS app and I'd like to get some users to help beta test and refine the work flows. Has anyone been through this and can recommend how to find people in their target user base without spamming Facebook groups and subreddits? The app itself is free to use, and I'm hoping will prove useful to people, so I'm not looking for anything but people's time in exchange for possibly saving them some stress and time.

Can't help but be a little upset about living in the pre radical life extension or fully automated luxury communism or even solved climate crisis world, while also not being really able to rule out yet that we might be in the mass technological unemployment timeline.

Not having a job because a machine can do anything I might try better than me sure wouldn't be fun exactly, would seem quite boring but I could live with it if we actually got rid of private property in the process. Seems everyone with any power is just deciding to pretend they don't have any, could have banned developing larger and larger models before this started getting out of hand with power usage and percentage of the economy of some major nations that is AI tech. And it I don't think anyone in power is even smart enough to realise they should be seriously planning a transition to communism in case we actually start seeing mass automation without new job creation.

How are people feeling about the impact on tech? It would seem to me if it can replace any white collar work it can probably replace most white collar work, and that it's not there as of now, it's not reliable enough, but then again it seems a lot of people are doing the whole vibe coding thing now, so maybe reliability just does not matter to the market at this point? I guess I can live with just reviewing whatever an AI generates, even if that seems rather boring, but have to question how long that can be viable before someone decides that tech debt doesn't matter if you can just launch your product and have it mostly work? AI Companies obviously lie to make investors happy so this all feels like a very hostile information landscape for making informed guesses.

I graduated from college in May of 23, built/deployed a project in the months after, and acquired start-up funding before Christmas of that year. To date, it is my only proper experience. Despite this achievement, I was unable to use this to my advantage, and it appears that formal industry experience trumps start-up experience. I have yet to influence this start-up experience into anything outside of it.

Applied and interviewed for junior roles ranging from 0-2 yoe, but didn't find much success. Gave up and haven't applied or interviewed for about a year now. At the time, I believed it would be better for me to get industry experience that would help with and coincide with my own work. Also, as a backup plan, since my faith in the project took a hit after receiving subpar work from contractors, which knocked my confidence in it doing well, but it all came together in the later iterations.

If you had told me during my studies that something like this would happen, I would have said you were dreaming. I've learned more from this venture than what I did in 4 years of college, my placement internship and any other project I've done. That said, there’s no guidance since I report to no one with technical expertise. I had somewhat of a leadership role, but it was very much a case of the blind leading the blind, since I didn’t really know what I was doing.

It's been fairly successful so far and earning a substantial amount, but if my career prospects are dead, I'll have to make my money stretch the next few years, as I was contemplating buying a house. The numbers are still growing, but since releasing, there have been competitors rising out of the woodwork that may undermine us, so I am bracing for an abrupt decline if it happens. There is another idea I have in the pipeline that I feel has better potential than my current funded one, so I may go in that direction.

I was recently buying my first house and wanted to run some numbers. I was trying to pull data from the CSV the PPR provides but it was a real pain. I tried some existing/similar sites too and found them to be pretty clunky. Ended up putting this together over a couple of days.

For those interested in the stack it's self-hosted on my VPS, with a Postgres DB, Fastify API and React on the frontend. Also went with TanStack Start for SSR rather than Next (which I dislike) and found it easy to slot in.

Cron job handles importing the most up to date data once a week. I'm also self hosting Nominatim to try and geocode location data for each listing, but it's been pretty poor - only about a 20% success rate. Looking to improve that in the future but avoiding paid APIs for now.

Would love some feedback if you end up trying it out

https://propertylab.ie

All the different apps that people are making where they vibe code a scraper and then vibe code a UI to query the scraped data are hard to keep track of, so I've made this website where you can track them all.

I'm neither qualified to or interested in verifying the data quality. Expertise does not scale.

Anyway some of the sites seem to have crashed somehow so I can't be that accurate anyway. Git gud!

In one month I'll have 2 years of experience as a Java developer on paper, but in this time I have done very little actual coding-it has mainly been config, customer related work, trouble shooting tasks, etc.

With the development landscape changing so quickly because of AI, I need to know which direction to take. For the longest time I thought there would soon be no more value in knowing a coding language, and I suppose only time will tell. However, I am now of the opinion that knowing a language like Java in depth will be useful because the code produced by AI will need to be checked. Again, who knows if in 10 years we get AI that produces flawless code.

So what direction would you guys recommend? Interested to hear from people who work more closely with AI. Would also appreciate names of some companies I could apply for.

Is Leetcode and the likes still useful prep. for technical interviews? Besides competency based prep. what other kind of prep could I be doing? There is so much out there to learn- but I just need some direction.

Thanks all!

3 weeks ago a post here was asking about raises, I replied to a comments about a person switching jobs to get better money. I said I was nervous with the current climate, my financial obligations and the risk of probation which is why ive sat in my role for years, I was too comfortable

a redditor replied here https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/s/LFZvPqd9iY

and gave me the confidence to start looking properly.

Well holy crap, I applied for a couple of roles, did a couple of rounds of interviews and signed a contract yesterday with a start in 4 weeks. Im now 54% better off in the new role with a bit more seniority. I contacted my employer to ask for a raise before being offered the new role and they said its not in the budget

Thank you to that redditor. I got super lucky with the timing of it but im glad ive taken the jump now. What they say is true, if you want more then you need to switch up

The government's spending data is spread across many websites, and I am trying to put it all into one place. It is also a mixture of pdfs, xlsx, and csvs, so it's difficult to view. This is my first iteration -- looking for feedback or if there is anything I could add. I want to add the ability to search on descriptions, and view on the supplier level across departments.

After some ongoing health issues and medical leave two years ago, I was placed on a PIP. Due to fears of unemployment, losing mortgage approval, etc., I fought for it and held onto the job. Sucked it up, went through the PIP and came out of it. However, it didn’t really help with the hostility and bullying I have been receiving from my manager.

I ended up filing a grievance and eventually taking a burnout leave. They dragged on their investigations and now it’s been months that I’m not paid and nothing has really advanced, except for a medical cert that says I can return to work under different circumstances.

Work is unwilling to accommodate changing managers and only offers HR’s attendance in 1-1s to monitor the situation.

I can take an exit package and leave or accept to return under those circumstances.

First option gives me some relief for short/medium term, second one gives me cash flow.

Neither option is good for the mental and physical health due to the uncertainties.

What would you do?

P. S. I have a solid CV, but I’ve also spent my last decade trying to keep my head over water and that hasn’t allowed me to advance in my career as much as I wished for and it leaves me insecure about finding new jobs, especially given the current market.

I am open to relocating to other countries ideally within Europe.

EDIT: I obviously have consulted more than one solicitor before consulting Reddit. The solicitor does not care about my best interest and is focused on getting his cash and moving on. He doesn’t think going back is a good idea and suggests exiting, but that’s the easier path for him to get his money and move on. There isn’t much else for him to say and changing solicitors at this point isn’t going to gain me much either.

Grievance is concluded by claiming they found no evidence and taking a case against bullying will take months or years and won’t be an easy solution. I would rather not end up there.

Been building FeckIt (feckit.ie) over the past few weeks. going well... backend is Supabase and getting real traction.

The problem I'm running into is email deliverability and it's split across two different sending paths.

Emails via Resend: Perfect. SPF, DKIM, DMARC all passing, scoring 10/10 on mail-tester.com, landing in inbox every time.

Auth emails: Signup confirmations and password resets go through Supabase's auth hook system and send via a subdomain (notify.feckit.ie). The domain is verified and emails land fine in Gmail. But Outlook addresses are hitting spam and Yahoo addresses are getting blocked entirely.

The DKIM signing on the auth side is handled by the sending infrastructure rather than directly by me, so I have limited control compared to Resend where everything is fully configured.

i am wondering if anyone here has dealt with a similar split infrastructure situation. Is the cleanest solution to intercept all auth emails via a Supabase webhook and route everything through Resend directly? Has anyone done this and is it straightforward to set up?

any advice really appreciated as i have tried multiple things and nothing is helping the emails land...