James O’Gorman

@jamesog

Geek, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician (bass 🎸, piano), and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin, pseudo-SRE. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️‍🌈.

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YouTube Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir jamesog.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

James O’Gorman@jamesog· 7d

My face when some podcaster or YouTuber says "you know how everyone's in dozens of group chats…"

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jul 10

You can also see this at Berkhamsted castle for free which is probably better

A group of archers, and a man in front of them with his sword sticking out suggestively, while he points at a motte which is captioned “The Butt”

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 28

From the current issue of Private Eye.

Bluesky also banned
THE government confirmed today that, despite being left off from the initial list, Bluesky would be included in the social media sites banned for under 16s.

Said a Downing Street spokesman, "We're determined to protect impressionable teen minds from being exposed on Bluesky to friendly polite conversation on topics ranging from albums of Miles Davis to classic 70s Hollywood movies and the best era of Doctor Who."

He continued, "Filling teenagers' impressionable young minds with this genial chat is no way to prepare them for the hellish Al future that awaits them."

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 23

There we go 😆

Carrot says: I was going to lower the temperature, but then I decided I like watching you suffer.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 23

32° and this is not the snark I was hoping for.

Carrot weather saying: It’s frakking hot out.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 23

Joke’s on you, Carrot. I don’t have AC.

Carrot weather showing the current temperature at 30°C and saying:

I look forward to seeing your reaction when you open your air conditioning bill.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 22

It certainly likes this spell of rain 😆

Carrot says: it’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is suffering from incontinence.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 22

The next couple of days are going to be… delightful

A Grafana panel with two dials showing the bedroom temperature to be 27.9ºC and my office to be 30ºC

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jun 3

I swear I'm going to end up building a tool to fetch Wired's RSS feed, filter this junk out, and re-serve it

A screenshot from my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) 10 consecutive "posts" that are just coupon codes for various shite. This isn't even all of them, there are more.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· May 26

I had a little visitor this morning. I just happened to look out of my window to see this little fella sitting on the telephone line. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a snap before he flew off. Didn't even have time to adjust settings, I but I think it came out alright.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· May 26

🫢

James O’Gorman@jamesog· May 23

A mocked ST:TNG episode title called “Riker gets his tits out (part 1)”

James O’Gorman@jamesog· May 6

I do like me a blue guitar.

A MusicMan StingRay 4-string, single humbucker, in "Blue Dream" finish. The paint starts as a pale blue/green, with a darker blue towards the edge of the body, fading into black on the outside.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· May 3

Preach it, Carrot.

Carrot weather saying: Sure, wind turbines can produce clean energy on the cheap, but they can also ruin the view from rich people's palatial estates.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Apr 24

Ooh, happy 3rd Blueskyversary to me! 🥳

My account as viewed on internect.info showing I created my account at 24 April 2023 at 19:15 BST

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Apr 20

Holy moly. Comments have been made about GitHub's "real" uptime as not even having one 9 (around 89%, technically one 9? 😆) but I just checked mastodon.social's status page and WOW are they way worse: status.mastodon.social

Mastodon.social's status page, showing uptime over the last 90 days is around 41% for website & API, background queues, and streaming API. But media storage has 100%.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Apr 8

Well that’s better than what I got today.

Carrot weather saying: The weather is perfect. At least, that's what the SJWs want you to think. Better stay in the basement like a good little incel.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Apr 6

Carrot weather speaks the truth.

Carrot weather saying: “Enjoy spring! But don’t trust it. This season loves to betray you.”

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Apr 4

@weirdguita.rs I don't think you've posted this one yet www.guitarworld.com/news/jared-d...

Elwood Francis of ZZ Top holding a 17 string bass guitar. The body and headstock are bright yellow. The tuners are 9/8 split.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Mar 6

"all my apes gone" tweet but "tables" superimposed over the word apes

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Feb 15

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

The album cover for Queens of the Stone Age's Rated R

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Feb 11

Peavey Milestone I Squier Strat HSS Yamaha FS820 acoustic Spector Euro LX Music Man StingRay Special

Left to right:
Yamaha FS820
Spector Euro LX in natural burst
Squier Strat
Peavey Milestone I
In the foreground there’s a Boss ME-90B multi effects bass pedal

Music Man StingRay special in blue dream finish, and the Spector from the previous photo

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Feb 9

Nice to get welcomed with proper Irish weather when I landed in Dublin this morning.

The view from an airplane window, sitting outside the gate. It’s pissing down outside.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Feb 1

This is who runs this account

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jan 25

Dear Bluesky, what is this shit and why is it in my sidebar? I've got trending topics turned off, and I'm not in the US.

A banner below the list of feeds showing something related to NFL playoffs.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Jan 20

Uh, no thanks, Bluesky. Why would I want to see random shit from Discover when I'm looking at Following?

An info box in the Following feed saying:

We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Dec 2

Don't often post work things, but this is too good. Our former head of engineering calling out our CEO in an IYKYK way.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Nov 21

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.

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Nov 17

Obligatory

"You wouldn't brandish a fireman" using the "you wouldn't steal a movie" meme style

James O’Gorman@jamesog· Nov 12

Really, Apple Music? 🤨