James O'Gorman
@fedi.jamesog.net
General geek, gadgeteer, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️🌈
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Reposted by James O'Gorman
I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]
Original post on bark.lgbt
bark.lgbt
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]
This week I think I had my first AI slop security report. One of our Security team pulled me into a discussion where someone reported a bunch of random ports open on some of our load balancer IPs, including FTP. None of us could reproduce the ports showing as open, and I showed the LB config […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 7, 2026 at 7:27 PM
This week I think I had my first AI slop security report. One of our Security team pulled me into a discussion where someone reported a bunch of random ports open on some of our load balancer IPs, including FTP. None of us could reproduce the ports showing as open, and I showed the LB config […]
Reposted by James O'Gorman
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
@b0rk We do this at work for our assets domain. Our customers have a subdomain of our main domain, and load assets from a single, separate domain, so the assets domain needs to allow *. This is safe for the reasons you say, it's never private data.
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 PM
@b0rk We do this at work for our assets domain. Our customers have a subdomain of our main domain, and load assets from a single, separate domain, so the assets domain needs to allow *. This is safe for the reasons you say, it's never private data.
Delightful find of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9tVfnzc9E
February 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Delightful find of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9tVfnzc9E
RE: https://meshed.cloud/@webmink/115990298940006193
Yeah, this is why I’m very unlikely to go to FOSDEM or anything like it anytime soon. Was bad enough getting a regular cold from large events, a pandemic taught me that humans are gross and don’t care about preventing spreading illness
Yeah, this is why I’m very unlikely to go to FOSDEM or anything like it anytime soon. Was bad enough getting a regular cold from large events, a pandemic taught me that humans are gross and don’t care about preventing spreading illness
January 31, 2026 at 11:23 PM
RE: https://meshed.cloud/@webmink/115990298940006193
Yeah, this is why I’m very unlikely to go to FOSDEM or anything like it anytime soon. Was bad enough getting a regular cold from large events, a pandemic taught me that humans are gross and don’t care about preventing spreading illness
Yeah, this is why I’m very unlikely to go to FOSDEM or anything like it anytime soon. Was bad enough getting a regular cold from large events, a pandemic taught me that humans are gross and don’t care about preventing spreading illness
Reposted by James O'Gorman
"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"
via Mike Bales
via Mike Bales
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM
"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"
via Mike Bales
via Mike Bales
HTTP allowing duplicate header names was such a mistake.
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
HTTP allowing duplicate header names was such a mistake.
Today I got to try out a Yamaha BBP34 and BB434. Very nice basses! Very comfortable neck and good tone from them. Somehow I think I preferred the feel of the neck on the 434 which I couldn’t make sense of as they’re almost the same.
January 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Today I got to try out a Yamaha BBP34 and BB434. Very nice basses! Very comfortable neck and good tone from them. Somehow I think I preferred the feel of the neck on the 434 which I couldn’t make sense of as they’re almost the same.
Even noise cancellation can’t cancel out “See it, say it, sorted.” 😒
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Even noise cancellation can’t cancel out “See it, say it, sorted.” 😒
Re: https://social.markiswrit.ing/@mark/statuses/01KEVH2S6N0J7D5VSE7HW0RE22
I've considered doing the same with my Gmail account. It was never my primary address anyway, but I get more mail there for people who are not me than I ever did for me, so I've pretty much abandoned it.
I've considered doing the same with my Gmail account. It was never my primary address anyway, but I get more mail there for people who are not me than I ever did for me, so I've pretty much abandoned it.
Post by Mark Taylor, @[email protected]
Somebody trying to get in touch with Taylor Marks has received this autoreply and decided it's worth sending their email on to me.
social.markiswrit.ing
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Re: https://social.markiswrit.ing/@mark/statuses/01KEVH2S6N0J7D5VSE7HW0RE22
I've considered doing the same with my Gmail account. It was never my primary address anyway, but I get more mail there for people who are not me than I ever did for me, so I've pretty much abandoned it.
I've considered doing the same with my Gmail account. It was never my primary address anyway, but I get more mail there for people who are not me than I ever did for me, so I've pretty much abandoned it.
Want to write an HTTP access log consumer for stuffing logs into (probably) DuckDB to do analytics-lite. Caddy is already writing one file per vhost but while writing a file tailer in Go is doable is kind of annoying to deal with all the edge cases. Tempted to switch to using a fifo instead but […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Want to write an HTTP access log consumer for stuffing logs into (probably) DuckDB to do analytics-lite. Caddy is already writing one file per vhost but while writing a file tailer in Go is doable is kind of annoying to deal with all the edge cases. Tempted to switch to using a fifo instead but […]
I fucking hate websockets. #grumpysysadmin
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I fucking hate websockets. #grumpysysadmin
Womp womp, IBM HashiCorp have canned Terraform CDK
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Womp womp, IBM HashiCorp have canned Terraform CDK
Oh my, has GitHub finally fixed Dependabot for Go?
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oh my, has GitHub finally fixed Dependabot for Go?
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-dependabot-dgs-for-go/
Curious to find out if this has actually improved things and stopped telling me to update things that aren't used.
I've got multiple shelves full of old computing text books that I can't decide what to do with. Most of them are probably too outdated to be useful now. Can't decide whether to just stick them in the recycling or look for somewhere to donate them.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I've got multiple shelves full of old computing text books that I can't decide what to do with. Most of them are probably too outdated to be useful now. Can't decide whether to just stick them in the recycling or look for somewhere to donate them.
@nelson I had this same pain a couple of years ago when I decided to finally abandon my Gmail account (which gets mistakenly used by the world and his husband). I have to have Fastmail pulling in my Gmail account just in case for those few services that won't let my change my address.
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@nelson I had this same pain a couple of years ago when I decided to finally abandon my Gmail account (which gets mistakenly used by the world and his husband). I have to have Fastmail pulling in my Gmail account just in case for those few services that won't let my change my address.
Saw today that Rockin' 1000 is coming to Manchester in March 2026. Kinda tempted to apply to join...
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Saw today that Rockin' 1000 is coming to Manchester in March 2026. Kinda tempted to apply to join...
No longer "answer to the ultimate question" years old :-(
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
No longer "answer to the ultimate question" years old :-(
jfc this thing is so bad. Why is it so popular? I just want to use Postgres again 😭
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jfc this thing is so bad. Why is it so popular? I just want to use Postgres again 😭
I’m having to do things with MySQL. I feel dirty.
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’m having to do things with MySQL. I feel dirty.
In the 90s I had a similarly weird design tower PC from Gateway Computers. It was an inverted T, where the motherboard was flat on the bottom, so the bottom of the case was like a thin desktop, but had a tower glued on top.
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
In the 90s I had a similarly weird design tower PC from Gateway Computers. It was an inverted T, where the motherboard was flat on the bottom, so the bottom of the case was like a thin desktop, but had a tower glued on top.
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Can't find any photos of that model unfortunately […]
Look, recruiter, I know you're trying to flatter me, but try harder.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Look, recruiter, I know you're trying to flatter me, but try harder.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.
"Your OSS contributions to grpc-go stood out."
ORLY. You mean this one stupidly simple bugfix? https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/8684 Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.