James O'Gorman
@fedi.jamesog.net
General geek, gadgeteer, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️🌈
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Want to write an HTTP access log consumer for stuffing logs into (probably) DuckDB to do analytics-lite. Caddy is already writing one file per vhost but while writing a file tailer in Go is doable is kind of annoying to deal with all the edge cases. Tempted to switch to using a fifo instead but […]
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mastodon.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Want to write an HTTP access log consumer for stuffing logs into (probably) DuckDB to do analytics-lite. Caddy is already writing one file per vhost but while writing a file tailer in Go is doable is kind of annoying to deal with all the edge cases. Tempted to switch to using a fifo instead but […]
I fucking hate websockets. #grumpysysadmin
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I fucking hate websockets. #grumpysysadmin
Womp womp, IBM HashiCorp have canned Terraform CDK
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Womp womp, IBM HashiCorp have canned Terraform CDK
Oh my, has GitHub finally fixed Dependabot for Go?
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oh my, has GitHub finally fixed Dependabot for Go?
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
I've got multiple shelves full of old computing text books that I can't decide what to do with. Most of them are probably too outdated to be useful now. Can't decide whether to just stick them in the recycling or look for somewhere to donate them.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I've got multiple shelves full of old computing text books that I can't decide what to do with. Most of them are probably too outdated to be useful now. Can't decide whether to just stick them in the recycling or look for somewhere to donate them.
Saw today that Rockin' 1000 is coming to Manchester in March 2026. Kinda tempted to apply to join...
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Saw today that Rockin' 1000 is coming to Manchester in March 2026. Kinda tempted to apply to join...
No longer "answer to the ultimate question" years old :-(
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
No longer "answer to the ultimate question" years old :-(
I’m having to do things with MySQL. I feel dirty.
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’m having to do things with MySQL. I feel dirty.
In the 90s I had a similarly weird design tower PC from Gateway Computers. It was an inverted T, where the motherboard was flat on the bottom, so the bottom of the case was like a thin desktop, but had a tower glued on top.
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
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mastodon.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
In the 90s I had a similarly weird design tower PC from Gateway Computers. It was an inverted T, where the motherboard was flat on the bottom, so the bottom of the case was like a thin desktop, but had a tower glued on top.
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
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? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
Sometimes I wish Slack had the ICQ feature to see what someone is typing live so I’m not just sitting here watching an animated … for minutes while they reply
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Sometimes I wish Slack had the ICQ feature to see what someone is typing live so I’m not just sitting here watching an animated … for minutes while they reply
Aaaaaah DuckDB arrays are 1-indexed. Were they inspired by Lua? 😅
What's worse is accessing index 0 silently returns nothing. Guess who found out the hard way...
What's worse is accessing index 0 silently returns nothing. Guess who found out the hard way...
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Aaaaaah DuckDB arrays are 1-indexed. Were they inspired by Lua? 😅
What's worse is accessing index 0 silently returns nothing. Guess who found out the hard way...
What's worse is accessing index 0 silently returns nothing. Guess who found out the hard way...
Really, Apple Music? 🤨
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Really, Apple Music? 🤨
Justified ancients of
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Justified ancients of
Reposted by James O'Gorman
https://www.thenerve.news is a promising new indy media site run by Carole Cadwalladr and lots of other good people. Sadly no fediverse presence yet though, by the look of it.
The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.
www.thenerve.news
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
https://www.thenerve.news is a promising new indy media site run by Carole Cadwalladr and lots of other good people. Sadly no fediverse presence yet though, by the look of it.
Timing of this is incredible, just got a notification about domain renewal for a project I started 2 years ago and haven’t touched since just after I registered the domain 😬
https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115431393118718818
https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115431393118718818
Heliograph (@Heliograph@mastodon.au)
Attached: 1 image #domainname #renewal #related
mastodon.au
October 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Timing of this is incredible, just got a notification about domain renewal for a project I started 2 years ago and haven’t touched since just after I registered the domain 😬
https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115431393118718818
https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115431393118718818
Happy back-to-the-one-true-timezone day for those who celebrate
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy back-to-the-one-true-timezone day for those who celebrate
October 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Love the smell of us-east-1 outages in the morning
October 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Love the smell of us-east-1 outages in the morning
New toy to play with this weekend.
Already had a quick go after work and it’s great!
#bossxs1 #bass #guitarpedal #gas
Already had a quick go after work and it’s great!
#bossxs1 #bass #guitarpedal #gas
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New toy to play with this weekend.
Already had a quick go after work and it’s great!
#bossxs1 #bass #guitarpedal #gas
Already had a quick go after work and it’s great!
#bossxs1 #bass #guitarpedal #gas
:atlassian-intensifies:
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114948741551941675
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114948741551941675
Gabriele Svelto (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to)
We are modernizing the user interface Pray we do not modernize it further
mas.to
October 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
:atlassian-intensifies:
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114948741551941675
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114948741551941675
Reposted by James O'Gorman
Motherfucker actually did it. He walked in a mostly straight line for *14 years* in an early version of Minecraft, with his pet wolf, to reach the Far Lands (the edge of the map)
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-far-lands-over-14-years-later-the-edge-of-a-minecraft-world-has-been-reached
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-far-lands-over-14-years-later-the-edge-of-a-minecraft-world-has-been-reached
The Far Lands! Over 14 years later, the edge of a Minecraft world has been reached
It took 14-and-a-half years of walking but finally someone has made it to the edge of the world. Of Minecraft.
www.eurogamer.net
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Motherfucker actually did it. He walked in a mostly straight line for *14 years* in an early version of Minecraft, with his pet wolf, to reach the Far Lands (the edge of the map)
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-far-lands-over-14-years-later-the-edge-of-a-minecraft-world-has-been-reached
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-far-lands-over-14-years-later-the-edge-of-a-minecraft-world-has-been-reached