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'Gorman2d ago
@kinnison He was the best. Affectionate, but independent. And most of all, quiet! It was rare to hear him make any kind of bark of whine.
Show threadJames O'Gorman2d ago
@kinnison I miss having this little guy in my life.
Show threadJames O'Gorman4d ago
@kinnison Yeah, not hard, just... sigh :-)
James O'Gorman4d ago

@kinnison Just for you I've updated both my systems to 25.05 😘

Although I'm leaving stateVersion as-is, at least on one of them, because it implies an upgrade of postgres and I need to do a dance.

James O'Gorman4d ago
Queens of the Stone Age playing Royal Albert Hall, you say? Tempting...
Show threadJames O'Gorman6d ago
@kinnison For now it's a private repo on Codeberg. I've been contemplating whether it's safe to make it public, especially as I have agenix secrets stored there. In theory that should be fine, but...
James O'Gorman6d ago

Finally, all of my NixOS hosts are managed using a single flake rather than a configuration.nix on each machine. The flake also has my home-manager configurations so I can use it on my Macs too.

Took some wrangling to figure out how to package things and write a custom module to make some of it work, but Claude Sonnet 4 was surprisingly helpful there - way more than any official Nix docs.

James O'GormanJul 11

Just had a little visitor. 🦋

I’ve seen plenty of white ones fluttering about this year, but this is the first non-white I’ve seen.

Show threadJames O'GormanJul 11
@kpl Definitely. And thinking about idioms I might use that either don't translate or aren't known outside of this little island. It made me a better documentation writer, too.
Show threadJames O'GormanJul 11

@kpl On:
"You’re sarcastic, and it’s not productive.” That hurt, and made me rethink how I worked."

I had very similar feedback once! It was a real wake-up call that most of my team weren't native English speakers and often couldn't tell English sarcasm meant as "humour" or when I was being serious. That made me think a lot about how I communicate with people.

Great post :-)