James O'Gorman

@jamesog
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General geek, gadgeteer, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️‍🌈

I tend to post about anything, often techy things, but of late occasional UK political things too.

I mostly write code in #Go (#golang) but lately I've been learning #Swift and #SwiftUI. I will touch #Python under duress. #Perl was my first real language and made me love writing code.

(Rarely updated) Bloghttps://jamesog.net
GitHubhttps://github.com/jamesog
Flickrhttps://flickr.com/photos/jamesog
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesog.net
James O'Gorman12h ago

Great quote from @siracusa in the latest ATP (https://atp.fm/692):

"Using AI to write something for you is like sending a robot to the gym to lift weights for you. It's missing the point entirely."

Accidental Tech Podcast: 692: A Thinking Hitch

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

James O'Gorman21h ago
Jen Sorensen1d ago

This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

#solar #energy #SolarPower

James O'Gorman3d ago

And now ask me if I would ever work for that company again.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-i-choose-which-cloudflare-employees-to-replace-with-ai-40a197e5?st=gvh42C

James O'Gorman4d ago
@kpl I was listening to your coding playlist while working today. Really got me into a groove 👌🏻
James O'Gorman5d ago
I spent the day writing and rewriting some code, getting it into a state that I was finally happy with. That was satisfying at the end. I don’t think I could have coerced an LLM to get me the same end result nor had the same sense of satisfaction or feeling of creativity.
James O'GormanMay 17

I find myself agreeing with Gruber. I feel slightly dirty.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product

AI Is Technology, Not a Product

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

Daring Fireball
James O'GormanMay 17
Blimey. My RIPE Atlas probe just hit its 12th "birthday".
James O'GormanMay 15
Brooke Vibber May 15

I love Forgejo but because I *speak* Esperanto I cannot read its name "correctly" due to the missing accent mark over the "g"

"Forĝejo" (for-JAY-o) means "place of forging"

"Forgejo" (for-GAY-o) means "distant gay"

James O'GormanMay 12
SoapboxMay 12

Introducing Indigo

A beautiful new app for Bluesky and Mastodon and the best way to experience both social networks together. It’s tough keeping up with everyone you care about when they’re split across different networks but Indigo brings them together for a seamless social experience.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/indigo-for-bluesky-mastodon/id6763755310

James O'GormanMay 11
rob pikeMay 11

Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).

Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.