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'Gorman1d ago
@kinnison Yeah, not hard, just... sigh :-)
James O'Gorman1d 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'Gorman1d ago
Queens of the Stone Age playing Royal Albert Hall, you say? Tempting...
Show threadJames O'Gorman3d 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'Gorman3d 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'Gorman5d ago

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'Gorman5d ago
@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'Gorman5d ago

@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 :-)

James O'Gorman5d ago
iFixit6d ago

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Show threadJames O'Gorman6d ago
@uthark Agree, although I would usually ask the submitter to squash and update the branch.
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iFixit6d ago

What’s better than fixing something yourself? Doing it with tools that didn’t cost full price.

Now through July 17, get up to 15% off select iFixit tools. That drawer full of broken stuff just became a to-do list.

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Show threadAmelia Rochko6d ago
@iFixit I have taken advantage of that sale and my order arrived today, I've always wanted a proper bit set, the ones bought to get inside my first laptop, fell apart pretty quickly, (the magnetic end of the driver was not magnetic anymore and the bits kept falling off) so I'll take that Lifetime Guarantee anytime please. Now I just need some "it" so I can fix.
Show threadAmelia Rochko6d ago
@iFixit forgot to share the cool stickers I also got, one I ordered the other one came with the toolkit.
Show threadMinDBreaK 🏴‍☠️6d ago
@Ameboid @iFixit “Never take broken for an answer” is a cool sticker ! I wish I had it when I ordered my kit back in the days !
(Tools still working perfectly, never had something I couldn’t open 😂)
Show threadiFixit5d ago

@MinDBreaK Happy to hear it :)

The sticker is available standalone, or in poster form if you're interested!

Sticker: https://www.ifixit.com/products/never-take-broken-stickers

Poster: https://www.ifixit.com/products/never-take-broken-poster

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Show threadMinDBreaK 🏴‍☠️5d ago
@iFixit I’ll make sure to add it to my next order ;)
Show threadAmelia Rochko5d ago
@MinDBreaK @iFixit I regret not ordering more.
Show threadNic Roland 6d ago
@Ameboid @iFixit what I always say is: if it's not broken, fix it until it is!
Show threadBishop6 (Ed Alan T.)5d ago

@Ameboid @iFixit I've had this same set for a few years now, and I use it all the time here at work! I bought it on my own and all my co-workers are envious of my awesome tool set. :D

I fix everything from laptops up to rack-mounted servers and it always comes through