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James O’Gorman
@jamesog.net
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Geek, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin, pseudo-SRE. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️‍🌈.

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Look, recruiter, I know you're trying to flatter me, but try harder.

"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."

ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? github.com/grpc/grpc-go... Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
Screenshot of a stupid LinkedIn message from a stupid recruiter. (Is that a tautology?) "Hey James, I’m a talent partner working with a fast growing AI startup building real time Voice AI - they raised a $20M Series A led by Accel after hitting $5M ARR in just over a year. You were one of the very few Go engineers who made my shortlist - your OSS contributions to gRPC-go stood out." I highlighted the last sentence in the screenshot.
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Obligatory
"You wouldn't brandish a fireman" using the "you wouldn't steal a movie" meme style
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Really, Apple Music? 🤨
Apple Music suggesting “You might also like: Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris”
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Justified ancients of
Two Pieminister Moo pie boxes, one on top of the other. The text MOO is big and obvious when looking at them.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The album cover for Doolittle, by Pixies
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Uh, wow.

(From grid.iamkate.com)
A screenshot from grid.iamkate.com showing the UK's electricity is currently being supplied by 77.9% renewables, most of which is from wind power. Only 10.1% comes from fossil fuels (gas), 11.3% comes from nuclear.
October 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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New toy to play with this weekend.

Already had a quick go after work and it’s great!

#BossXS-1 #bass #guitarpedal #GAS
Boss XS-1 poly shifter guitar pedal
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Oh, no, Starling. This is not a good change. That new logo and font are awful. At least the old one was quite uniquely Starling. Now it's just an S? Really? The colours are pretty gross, too.
Starling bank announcing "We're changing how we look" The original is an animation from their old logo to the new, which is just an S. Descriptions of the new app icon and branding. The colours are awful, as are the fonts.
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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🙌🏻
A git diff for a PDS on a NixOS host showing replacing the PDS_CRAWLERS variable with a single entry for bsky.network, now built from a Nix list: PDS_CRAWLERS = lib.concatStringsSep "," [ # List of known relays at https://compare.hose.cam/ "https://bsky.network" "https://relay.feeds.blue" # Kuba "https://relay.fire.hose.cam" # Microcosm Montreal "https://relay3.fr.hose.cam" # Microcosm France "https://atproto.africa" # Blacksky "https://relay.xero.systems" # Dame ]
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Unfortunately ATP Airport failed though. But the GOAT worked just great whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net.... It took about 6 minutes to migrate all blobs. Not bad.
A screenshot of ATP Airport migration. Under the heading Migration Progress: There's a text in a green box saying Account Created Below that in a red box it says Migrate Data 500: Internal Server Error (INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) An internal server error occurred. trace: 6d8ea2b66ff78d1b74f371098863d0dc Deno Deploy encountered an error while processing this request.
July 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Just had a little visitor. 🦋

I’ve seen plenty of white ones fluttering about this year, but this is the first non-white I’ve seen.
A butterfly sitting just inside a window in the conservatory. It has reddish-brown wings with “eyes” along the edges.
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The face I'm submitting to Bluesky for verification
Graffiti art of The Grinch
July 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Container-aware GOMAXPROCS 🥳
The "success" kid
June 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Huh. I wonder if it’s just an iPhone thing. I think this is on by default.
iPhone focus mode settings. At the bottom is a toggle labelled “Allow Repeated Calls” which says a second call within 3 minutes will not be silenced
May 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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So, uh, this happened.

#NewBassDay #NBD #MusicMan #StingRay #BassSky
A brand new Music Man StingRay Special. It has a "Blue Dream" finish, which is a blue burst, kind of like an icy sun burst. The bridge, controls and tuning keys are black. The fretboard is ebony. The headstock is roasted maple. The bass is sitting in a Music Man / MONO case.
May 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Oh hi. JetKVM acquired.
The box of a JetKVM. It’s square and white, with a picture of the device in the middle. It’s surprisingly nice packaging. The JetKVM sitting on the palm of my hand. I have fairly small hands and it looks dinky even sitting in my hand.
May 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Ah, the email I've been expecting.

Yes, I'm middle-aged.
An email in my inbox from Marks & Spencer, with subject: An update from M&S about the recent cyber incident
May 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Is this a bass guitar or a bat'leth?

@weirdguita.rs
A Ritter bass guitar. The body and headstock are a bright red and the fretboard looks like ebony. The body is kind of teardrop-shaped, with an upwards curve that extends most of the way up the fretboard. The headstock is very long and pointy.
May 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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What’s your sign?
A sign on a wall saying COMMIT ~ NO ~ NUISANCE
April 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Hey @theverge.com any chance of you fixing your RSS feed so it's not corrupting characters all over the place?
Al companies can’t figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them â€" and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral. The markets are in disarray. Nvidia is down 7.59%, TSMC is down 7.22%. In San Francisco, sources tell us that this isn’t a big deal. But in DC, people are panicking. The core question is whether GPUs â€" the graphics processing units that are crucial to Al computing and other industries â€" are exempted from Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, and the answer is startlingly ambiguous.Â
April 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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March this year was much better for solar PV generation than March last year.

We imported less electricity from the grid this March than last, despite now having an EV and having charged it twice.

(It's weird how HA doesn't show consumed solar every day in month view, but does in the day view.)
Home Assistant’s energy dashboard for March 2024. We produced 135.5 kWh of solar, consumed 173.6 kWh from the grid, and exported 8.2 kWh to the grid. Home Assistant’s energy dashboard for March 2025. We produced 200.3 kWh of solar, consumed 158.5 kWh from the grid, and exported 11.7 kWh to the grid. Charging the car accounted for 54 kWh of grid consumption.
April 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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EBMM Stingray website right now

#ErnieBall #MusicMan #Stingray #Bass
The page for the Music Man Stingray Special saying: WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. We're updating this instrument website, stay tuned
April 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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This lady sure seems to enjoy this act.
A statue of a lady as part of a water feature. She is lying on her right side with something under right arm pouring water. In her left arm is what looks like a very long, very thick banana, which she is suckling with her mouth.
March 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Sunny morning.
A group of daffodils basking in the morning sun. Most of the daffodils are white petaled, some interspersed ones are yellow petaled.
March 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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(Can't remember the source for this)
Meme of two strong arms graping hands in unity. In the centre over the clasped fists it says "Knowing the phonetic alphabet" On each arm it says "IT professionals" and "Military personnel"
February 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM