James O’Gorman
@jamesog.net
Geek, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin, pseudo-SRE. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️🌈.
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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Related #golang PSA:
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
words.filippo.io
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Related #golang PSA:
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
Even noise cancellation can’t cancel out “See it, say it, sorted.” 😒
January 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Even noise cancellation can’t cancel out “See it, say it, sorted.” 😒
This was an excellent read, thoroughly recommend it.
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to £1.99 for one day only, get in there 🐆
There Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' Guardian
There Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' Guardian eBook : qntm: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This was an excellent read, thoroughly recommend it.
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I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
Slightly diminish a band: Mild Chili Peppers
Slightly diminish a band: Somewhat Odd Al Yankovick.
Slightly diminish a band: 9,999 Maniacs.
January 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Mild Chili Peppers
Colin is one of my favourite examples of interviewing a junior-ish engineer. Hiring for Cloudflare's edge team generally required A Certain Set of Skills™.
Colin is one of those rare people who was able to reason things out and make good guesses when he didn't know and showed a lot of promise.
Colin is one of those rare people who was able to reason things out and make good guesses when he didn't know and showed a lot of promise.
I've been going back and forth on posting this one, but it's nice to get back into writing. Part memoir, part technical document on my time at Cloudflare: blog.colindou.ch/posts/my-tim...
My time at Cloudflare: A Retrospective
It’s been just over a year since I left my 7 and a bit year stint at Cloudflare, and I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the experience. I have … a lot of thoughts, and I figured the best way to get t...
blog.colindou.ch
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Colin is one of my favourite examples of interviewing a junior-ish engineer. Hiring for Cloudflare's edge team generally required A Certain Set of Skills™.
Colin is one of those rare people who was able to reason things out and make good guesses when he didn't know and showed a lot of promise.
Colin is one of those rare people who was able to reason things out and make good guesses when he didn't know and showed a lot of promise.
Reposted by James O’Gorman
Reposted by James O’Gorman
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
words.filippo.io
January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
I look forward to the first LEGO botnet.
LEGO is launching the most ambitious brick it’s ever made: a tiny computer that fits entirely inside a classic 2x4 LEGO brick. It will make entire LEGO sets come to life — with humming lightsabers, roaring engines, light-up blasters, and more www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...
Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
Starting with Lego Star Wars.
www.theverge.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I look forward to the first LEGO botnet.
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Go 1.26 is coming soon, and the official release notes are pretty dry.
So I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples.
Read on and see!
antonz.org/go-1-26
So I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples.
Read on and see!
antonz.org/go-1-26
Go 1.26 interactive tour
New with expressions, type-safe error checking, and faster everything.
antonz.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Go 1.26 is coming soon, and the official release notes are pretty dry.
So I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples.
Read on and see!
antonz.org/go-1-26
So I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples.
Read on and see!
antonz.org/go-1-26
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Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years?
Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!
Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!
Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
RSA test vector crowdsourcing instructions
gist.github.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years?
Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!
Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!
Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
Reposted by James O’Gorman
Here is how For You works: it finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Here is how For You works: it finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
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Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network.
Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network.
Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
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Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬
Today I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out a weird error from the Kubernetes API server with a CRD I'm working on.
I asked Claude about it and it figured out the problem in less than a minute. It was so obscure I don't think I would've ever figured it out.
I asked Claude about it and it figured out the problem in less than a minute. It was so obscure I don't think I would've ever figured it out.
i'm finally kinda getting the hang of when to use these. dumb refactors, threading config through a bunch of files, boilerplatey stuff, fixing some syntax thing or when you don't know how to use a package right etc
but nothing beats the flow state of just banging out a bunch of code
but nothing beats the flow state of just banging out a bunch of code
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out a weird error from the Kubernetes API server with a CRD I'm working on.
I asked Claude about it and it figured out the problem in less than a minute. It was so obscure I don't think I would've ever figured it out.
I asked Claude about it and it figured out the problem in less than a minute. It was so obscure I don't think I would've ever figured it out.
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And the video now on YouTube! Which may be one of our funniest videos ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And the video now on YouTube! Which may be one of our funniest videos ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
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Just posted on Six Colors: Apple is forcing iPhones to update to iOS 26 to patch security holes
Apple is forcing iPhones to update to iOS 26 to patch security holes
I wrote earlier this week about the important security updates Apple just rolled out in its 26.2 operating system updates. Among the security fixes are...
sixcolors.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Just posted on Six Colors: Apple is forcing iPhones to update to iOS 26 to patch security holes
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This is the good shit ⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is the good shit ⤵️
Meanwhile here in England our system barely generated 100Wh today
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Meanwhile here in England our system barely generated 100Wh today
Ooh, sneaky. Bluesky updated the age assurance endpoint. Just updated my PDS Caddy config to fix the bypass.
gist.github.com/jamesog/22f4...
gist.github.com/jamesog/22f4...
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ooh, sneaky. Bluesky updated the age assurance endpoint. Just updated my PDS Caddy config to fix the bypass.
gist.github.com/jamesog/22f4...
gist.github.com/jamesog/22f4...
Good grief this looks awful.
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Good grief this looks awful.
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Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 12
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 12
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Gist of Go: Concurrency is out!
Learn Go concurrency from the ground up with 50 auto-tested exercises and tons of interactive examples.
It's a full course + book in one.
antonz.org/go-concurrency
Learn Go concurrency from the ground up with 50 auto-tested exercises and tons of interactive examples.
It's a full course + book in one.
antonz.org/go-concurrency
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Gist of Go: Concurrency is out!
Learn Go concurrency from the ground up with 50 auto-tested exercises and tons of interactive examples.
It's a full course + book in one.
antonz.org/go-concurrency
Learn Go concurrency from the ground up with 50 auto-tested exercises and tons of interactive examples.
It's a full course + book in one.
antonz.org/go-concurrency
I've always said he was a terrible person and a terrible actor who ruins every film he's in
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I've always said he was a terrible person and a terrible actor who ruins every film he's in
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In praise of Seattle, which set up a huge Pride programming connected to the World Cup match it’s hosting - before anyone knew which teams would be taking the field.
Turns out it was Iran v Egypt, two countries where homosexuality is illegal. Egypt wants Pride banned.
Seattle isn’t backing down.
Turns out it was Iran v Egypt, two countries where homosexuality is illegal. Egypt wants Pride banned.
Seattle isn’t backing down.
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In praise of Seattle, which set up a huge Pride programming connected to the World Cup match it’s hosting - before anyone knew which teams would be taking the field.
Turns out it was Iran v Egypt, two countries where homosexuality is illegal. Egypt wants Pride banned.
Seattle isn’t backing down.
Turns out it was Iran v Egypt, two countries where homosexuality is illegal. Egypt wants Pride banned.
Seattle isn’t backing down.