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
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Je viens de recevoir les nouvelles sonnettes pour mes vélos... Je vais les appeler Khn et Klek 🤣
#anginedepoitrine #velo
@headfirstonly Boots really is awful (and expensive) these days. I avoid them where I can. Thankfully my local pharmacy is closer than a Boots.
@headfirstonly A friend and I once agreed that if we’d known that foley artist was a thing early on we probably wouldn’t have gone in to IT
It looks like you're formatting your drive in FAT32. Guess who else got FAT after 32.
@phredmoyer These things are definitely coming for all our jobs
@kpl I just realised I'm thinking of Mime*cast*. Gah.

@kpl Oh, Mimestream. I had to point out to our security team recently: "y'know how you're always telling us to check the links in emails before clicking? y'know that Mimestream obfuscates everything so I can't actually check it, right?"

They were genuinely surprised at the realisation. (And no, they didn't fix it.)

@DanHugo @GrantMeStrength I’m in the UK, it was on O2 here. Not quite so bad. Although I did have to get a special thing to trick it into think I was using an O2 SIM as I was locked into a contract with another telco 😄
@DanHugo @GrantMeStrength I still think the Pre is one of the best phones I ever had. Loved that little thing.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

JK Rowling’s transphobia casts and inescapable shadow over the new Harry Potter adaptation.

The Verge