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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 09/09/2026

Then again, it's 10g heavier than the aluminium model, and 12g heavier than the S6

Spec comparison of the S12, SE3, S6. The aluminium S12 is 32g; ceramic is 42.8g.
S6 is 30.5g.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 04/09/2026

This one offended me and nearly made me throw my computer out the window.

“What is your term for a small, sweet cake?
- Cookie
- Biscuit
- Something else
"

I have answered “Something else”. Cookies and biscuits are different things, and neither of them is a cake.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 04/09/2026

I took it for shits and giggles and my result is almost identical to yours. HOWEVER: from a lot of these questions I have questions about the questions.

I might be from Boston, MA; or Portland, ME; or NY

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 27/08/2026

Me, searching for hotels: Ticks box for "Breakfast included" Hotels.com: Here are hotels where you can pay extra for breakfast

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 26/08/2026

Kind of wild how Apple seem to have only partially updated satellite views over summer. Or maybe it's a reminder.

Apple Maps in satellite view over Hemel Hempstead and surrounding areas. Most of Hemel shows light brown where there should be green (due to summer heatwaves), but the left and bottom-left is entirely green.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 04/08/2026

My face when some podcaster or YouTuber says "you know how everyone's in dozens of group chats…"

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 10/07/2026

You can also see this at Berkhamsted castle for free which is probably better

A group of archers, and a man in front of them with his sword sticking out suggestively, while he points at a motte which is captioned “The Butt”

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 28/06/2026

From the current issue of Private Eye.

Bluesky also banned
THE government confirmed today that, despite being left off from the initial list, Bluesky would be included in the social media sites banned for under 16s.

Said a Downing Street spokesman, "We're determined to protect impressionable teen minds from being exposed on Bluesky to friendly polite conversation on topics ranging from albums of Miles Davis to classic 70s Hollywood movies and the best era of Doctor Who."

He continued, "Filling teenagers' impressionable young minds with this genial chat is no way to prepare them for the hellish Al future that awaits them."

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 23/06/2026

32° and this is not the snark I was hoping for.

Carrot weather saying: It’s frakking hot out.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 23/06/2026

Joke’s on you, Carrot. I don’t have AC.

Carrot weather showing the current temperature at 30°C and saying:

I look forward to seeing your reaction when you open your air conditioning bill.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 22/06/2026

It certainly likes this spell of rain 😆

Carrot says: it’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is suffering from incontinence.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 22/06/2026

The next couple of days are going to be… delightful

A Grafana panel with two dials showing the bedroom temperature to be 27.9ºC and my office to be 30ºC

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 03/06/2026

I swear I'm going to end up building a tool to fetch Wired's RSS feed, filter this junk out, and re-serve it

A screenshot from my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) 10 consecutive "posts" that are just coupon codes for various shite. This isn't even all of them, there are more.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 26/05/2026

I had a little visitor this morning. I just happened to look out of my window to see this little fella sitting on the telephone line. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a snap before he flew off. Didn't even have time to adjust settings, I but I think it came out alright.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 06/05/2026

I do like me a blue guitar.

A MusicMan StingRay 4-string, single humbucker, in "Blue Dream" finish. The paint starts as a pale blue/green, with a darker blue towards the edge of the body, fading into black on the outside.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 24/04/2026

Ooh, happy 3rd Blueskyversary to me! 🥳

My account as viewed on internect.info showing I created my account at 24 April 2023 at 19:15 BST

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 20/04/2026

Holy moly. Comments have been made about GitHub's "real" uptime as not even having one 9 (around 89%, technically one 9? 😆) but I just checked mastodon.social's status page and WOW are they way worse: status.mastodon.social

Mastodon.social's status page, showing uptime over the last 90 days is around 41% for website & API, background queues, and streaming API. But media storage has 100%.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 08/04/2026

Well that’s better than what I got today.

Carrot weather saying: The weather is perfect. At least, that's what the SJWs want you to think. Better stay in the basement like a good little incel.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 06/04/2026

Carrot weather speaks the truth.

Carrot weather saying: “Enjoy spring! But don’t trust it. This season loves to betray you.”

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 04/04/2026

@weirdguita.rs I don't think you've posted this one yet www.guitarworld.com/news/jared-d...

Elwood Francis of ZZ Top holding a 17 string bass guitar. The body and headstock are bright yellow. The tuners are 9/8 split.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 15/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

The album cover for Queens of the Stone Age's Rated R

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 11/02/2026

Peavey Milestone I Squier Strat HSS Yamaha FS820 acoustic Spector Euro LX Music Man StingRay Special

Left to right:
Yamaha FS820
Spector Euro LX in natural burst
Squier Strat
Peavey Milestone I
In the foreground there’s a Boss ME-90B multi effects bass pedal

Music Man StingRay special in blue dream finish, and the Spector from the previous photo

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 09/02/2026

Nice to get welcomed with proper Irish weather when I landed in Dublin this morning.

The view from an airplane window, sitting outside the gate. It’s pissing down outside.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 01/02/2026

This is who runs this account

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/01/2026

Dear Bluesky, what is this shit and why is it in my sidebar? I've got trending topics turned off, and I'm not in the US.

A banner below the list of feeds showing something related to NFL playoffs.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 20/01/2026

Uh, no thanks, Bluesky. Why would I want to see random shit from Discover when I'm looking at Following?

An info box in the Following feed saying:

We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 02/12/2025

Don't often post work things, but this is too good. Our former head of engineering calling out our CEO in an IYKYK way.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 21/11/2025

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? github.com/grpc/grpc-go... Sure, yeah, that's a prime example of my work.

Screenshot of a stupid LinkedIn message from a stupid recruiter. (Is that a tautology?)

"Hey James,

I’m a talent partner working with a fast growing AI startup building real time Voice AI - they raised a $20M Series A led by Accel after hitting $5M ARR in just over a year.

You were one of the very few Go engineers who made my shortlist - your OSS contributions to gRPC-go stood out."

I highlighted the last sentence in the screenshot.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/10/2025

Uh, wow. (From grid.iamkate.com)

A screenshot from grid.iamkate.com showing the UK's electricity is currently being supplied by 77.9% renewables, most of which is from wind power. Only 10.1% comes from fossil fuels (gas), 11.3% comes from nuclear.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/10/2025

New toy to play with this weekend. Already had a quick go after work and it’s great! #BossXS-1 #bass #guitarpedal #GAS

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 10/09/2025

Oh, no, Starling. This is not a good change. That new logo and font are awful. At least the old one was quite uniquely Starling. Now it's just an S? Really? The colours are pretty gross, too.

Descriptions of the new app icon and branding. The colours are awful, as are the fonts.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 23/07/2025

Unfortunately ATP Airport failed though. But the GOAT worked just great whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net.... It took about 6 minutes to migrate all blobs. Not bad.

A screenshot of ATP Airport migration.
Under the heading Migration Progress:
There's a text in a green box saying Account Created
Below that in a red box it says

Migrate Data

500: Internal Server Error (INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) An internal server error occurred. trace: 6d8ea2b66ff78d1b74f371098863d0dc Deno Deploy encountered an error while processing this request.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 11/07/2025

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.

A butterfly sitting just inside a window in the conservatory. It has reddish-brown wings with “eyes” along the edges.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 10/07/2025

The face I'm submitting to Bluesky for verification

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 12/06/2025

Container-aware GOMAXPROCS 🥳

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 28/05/2025

Huh. I wonder if it’s just an iPhone thing. I think this is on by default.

iPhone focus mode settings. At the bottom is a toggle labelled “Allow Repeated Calls” which says a second call within 3 minutes will not be silenced

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