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. šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ

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
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James O'Gorman4d ago
Jan Schaumann4d ago
Starting to think the real risk is not AI replacing junior staff, but senior staff quitting because they just canā€™t take this AI bullshit any longer and just opt for early retirement.
Show threadJames O'Gorman4d ago
Update: I talked my way out of it \o/
James O'Gorman4d ago
Work wants me to travel to the US. No.
James O'Gorman6d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116242806053254671

I used to work with someone like this. She claimed she was always too busy, yet she was always on the phone nagging her husband or children, or gossiping with her friends. But yep, too busy right now.

James O'Gorman6d ago
Lorin Hochstein Mar 15

The three skills with a lot less overlap than youā€™d expect:

1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.

James O'GormanMar 16
Terence EdenMar 15

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure

#Solar

Government to go ā€œfurther and fasterā€ in becoming energy secure

The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

GOV.UK
James O'GormanMar 15
Jen SorensenMar 14

Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

#language #war #cartoon #comic #humanrights

James O'GormanMar 14
Show threadVelocipede RiderMar 13

Here is a fun thing. I work for Vivaldi Browser. Load any of our websites and you see no cookie banner and no mention of partners.

https://vivaldi.com

"But wait" you say, "didn't those terrible Europeans mandate the cookie banner!?"

No, no they did not. We do not need a cookie banner because we are not selling all your shit to every company under the sun.

Also those sites with cookie banners are just doing malicious compliance. This was never about the EU requiring cookie banners!

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Itā€™s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. Itā€™s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

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James O'GormanMar 6
Jef PoskanzerMar 4
James O'GormanMar 5
Gabriele SveltoMar 4
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. šŸ§µ 1/5