iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 27/09/2026

Mine has automatically come on twice this week. Guess I forgot to turn it off over summer.

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/09/2026

I added a log line of the parsed query just to check what the finger tool and your server were doing (and to get your server IP in case I ever want to lock it down in the firewall)

101

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/09/2026

Hairy man in a suit? Yes please. OH, that kind of furry 🤭

010

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/09/2026

It's kind of funny seeing all the different protocols people are trying against my server. HTTP, SSH, SMTP (?!?), SIP, and a bunch of things that start with hex digits followed by something that looks like escaped JSON

110

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 25/09/2026

It's been a particularly gruelling week at work so I finished Friday by… doing an extra long session on the spin bike? What is wrong with me?

000

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Jaz @jaz.sh · 24/09/2026

What if Ultimate-Guitar but on atproto? I'm playing around with a little idea, it's fun, come join! leadsheet.fm/sheet/jaz.sh...

leadsheet.fm

I Will Follow You Into the Dark chords by Death Cab for Cutie | Leadsheet

Chords for I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie, key of Am, capo 5. By @jaz.sh, rated 5.0 from 1 rating.

3626042

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 24/09/2026

Oh, this is what they meant by "emergency works in the Bushey area" (🤭). Thanks!

001

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 22/09/2026

Yay, we switched to incident.io at my work and it's been so great!

120

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 22/09/2026

I'm the grumpy guy in the corner that would be wondering why they've brought their baby in and rolling my eyes at all the fuss 😆

010

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 21/09/2026

I won't go near PGP/GPG anymore 😅 The UX was always terrible and the whole "web of trust" thing was way too much of a PITA if you want to do it properly (in person verification). It never integrated with email in a nice way and client extensions constantly broke

020

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 21/09/2026

Maybe I'm glad I haven't touched it yet then? 😛

000

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Dan Luu @danluu.com · 18/09/2026

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/

In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.

As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4

Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-proxy development produces average quality software in the foreseeable future.

Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee5.

27017

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/09/2026

Uh, "yes" 😆 I've seen all of those. The worst are things like greyish text on black or nearly-black. I've used things like to check my own stuff

webaim.org

WebAIM: Contrast Checker

010

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/09/2026

In general I'm not too bothered about how dark the dark is, but what most things get wrong is the contrast. That bothers me way more and more frequently causes me to force a site back into light mode because the contrast of the dark was unreadable.

120

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/09/2026

I have never understood his appeal. It's blander than a bland thing.

000

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/09/2026

Clam coffee sounds worse than Scalzi's burrittos

010

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 17/09/2026

That reminds me - is it me, or was there no flying ant day this year? Was it too hot?

230

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Xe @xeiaso.net · 21/09/2024

God I would pay actual money dollars for a TV that just functioned as a HDMI to photon converter. I don't want much. I just want to see the photons from the HDMI frames with basically zero latency.

2455

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 21/09/2024

At this point I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero smart features and physical controls for everything.

2760381

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 16/09/2026

That said I do enjoy not being woken by birds at 5am

020

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 16/09/2026

My brain keeps wanting to add an L in it - Piddlington

110

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Go @golang.org · 16/09/2026

“Size-Specialized Memory Allocation” by Michael Matloob — go.dev/blog/size-specialized-alloca… #golang

0236

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 16/09/2026

Also having insomnia this week, and I have regrets about going from a CF employee to a CF customer 😅

120

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Boris @bmann.ca · 15/09/2026

Me too, @z-space.ca espresso machine

Z-Space espresso machine has a yellow sticky that has “slop bucket full” written on it

0603

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 15/09/2026

Presumably you mean the EU? Ukraine is in Europe

110

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 15/09/2026

Ha, I yelled at the TV for exactly this yesterday

100

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 14/09/2026

Time to bid "fuck off" to Tahoe

020

Reposted by James O’Gorman

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

National and Internal Borders 2029 might look something like this

85919

Reposted by James O’Gorman

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

841957386

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 14/09/2026

Ah! I avoid anything JS as much as possible so never actually seen TS. I hate having to work with Jsonnet 😄

000

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 14/09/2026

That looks an awful lot like Jsonnet

100

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 12/09/2026

Imagine having that much spare cash to throw around and not using it to do some actual societal good.

020

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 11/09/2026

Am I remembering right that this is basically Mr Beast's fault? Something about him using his massive platform to A/B test lots of different expressions and coming up with this being the most click-baity.

110

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Simon Threadgold @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"It's a Flaaaaaake!"

0198

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 10/09/2026

That's the first Rick I've seen that I didn't think was incredibly ugly. I'd even go so far as to say this one is quite pretty. But I still hate the horn.

040

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

Yeah, my S6 is often dead or dying by 10pm these days, especially on days I've done a workout

020

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

Holy cow ceramic is an extra £480 😵‍💫

030

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.

110

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

Ooh, Apple Watch Series 12 Night Blue ceramic looks nice. Maybe it's my upgrade year after all. My current S6 is also blue and I'm always sad when they take colour options away.

230

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

Had the same over the pond in England FWIW. I've still got the old Apple Events app on the home screen which always complains at me that I should just use the TV app, but nevertheless takes me to the event. Always impossible to find it in the TV app

000

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 08/09/2026

I fucking hate Waltzes. (This brought to you by my current set of piano lessons on Pianote.)

010

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

theguardian.com

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

2419281223

Reposted by James O’Gorman

Tom Limoncelli @yesthattom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've seen many articles about how to manage technical debt that suggest nice, easy, solutions that don't work. How about if you throw ethics out the door? Would that help? Here's my answer: queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

queue.acm.org

Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt: Is ignoring it unethical?: Queue: Vol 24, No 4

You can ignore it, tie it to unrelated company initiatives, or feign ignorance and simply not offer solutions that add to it. Or… you can adopt more above-board techniques such as Crawl/Walk/Run and t...

041