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.

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Show threadJames O'Gorman6h ago
@kinnison Correct, which is what I'd want. Most of the time rebase is fine, but once in a while GitHub says "branch has no conflicts, you can rebase" and then introduces some subtle error. FF prevents all of that by ensuring your branch must be up to date.
Show threadJames O'Gorman7h ago
@kinnison Yes, rebase is an option, but not straight merge --ff-only. I’ve seen rebase merges go wrong and break main, where a ff merge wouldn’t have done
Show threadJames O'Gorman18h ago

@kinnison Indeed. I am very anti-squash and disable it on all the repos it's in my power to do so.

I also wish GitHub would get around to adding ff-only merges. Merge commits are my other big pet peeve.

James O'Gorman18h ago
MFW my carefully crafted commit message gets squash-merged into a one-line commit
James O'Gorman22h ago
Mitchell Hashimoto22h ago

Pretty big feature landing for Ghostty: automatic SSH terminfo setup. This is opt-in (because modifying ssh by default is sus) but makes `ssh` work without all the fiddly manual steps until our terminfo is installed by default on more machines. https://tip.ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#shell-integration-features

Thanks to Jason Rayne who contributed this. There are still edge cases we're ironing out and we plan to make this even smoother over time, but this feature is in excellent initial shape.

Show threadJames O'Gorman1d ago
@pims 🙃
Show threadJames O'Gorman1d ago
@pims Except it's worse than that. The frontend has been undergoing big changes lately and they moved *to* this broken piece of shit
James O'Gorman1d ago
GitHub, I get so incredibly frustrated with your stupid SPA and its inability to keep state properly. I keep ending up with the browser URL showing me the correct thing and the page being displayed being a different one from history; or sometimes the right page/URL but the wrong title in the browser window.
Show threadJames O'Gorman2d ago
@kpl Now that’s a good playlist!
Show threadJames O'Gorman3d ago
@risottobias GoLand. I stuck just using vim for a very long time. Tried VS Code and never gelled with it. One day I tried GoLand on a whim and immediately understood the hype.