Hacker News: jamesog

New comment by jamesog in "Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare"

jamesog — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:48:43 +0000

I was the original author of the cloudflare-go library (which I worked on in my spare time while working at Cloudflare), and I included a `flarectl` command with it, but sadly it didn't get much traction :-(

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/tree/v0/cmd/flar...

New comment by jamesog in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

jamesog — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:55:57 +0000

The bad change wasn't even a deployment as such, just an entry in the global KV store https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configur...

Actual deployments take hours to propagate worldwide.

(Disclosure: former Cloudflare SRE)

New comment by jamesog in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

jamesog — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:48:30 +0000

Disclosure: Former Cloudflare SRE.

The short answer is "yes" due to the way the configuration management works. Other infrastructure changes or service upgrades might get undone, but it's possible. Or otherwise revert the commit that introduced the package bump with the new code and force that to rollout everywhere rather than waiting for progressive rollout.

There shouldn't be much chance of bringing the system to a novel state because configuration management will largely put things into the correct state. (Where that doesn't work is if CM previously created files, it won't delete them unless explicitly told to do so.)

New comment by jamesog in "If you're remote, ramble"

jamesog — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:08:22 +0000

> I collaborated a lot with a collage - James (Jog). I asked him loads of questions, from "how to login to a server", via "what is anycast" to "tell me how you mitigated this one, give me precise instructions you've run".

Hi, that's me! There were definitely a lot of fun conversations.

I liked that a culture of internal blogs became a thing too. It was good to see people brain dumping their experiments and findings. I think people learnt a lot from following all the internal blogs.

New comment by jamesog in "Murderbot, she wrote"

jamesog — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:12:15 +0000

Children of Time needs to come with a huge content warning for those with arachnophobia. I got through it, but I didn't enjoy it, for that reason.

New comment by jamesog in "Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt"

jamesog — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:02:12 +0000

That's not from robots.txt, but their Bot Management feature which blocks things calling themselves Googlebot that don't come from known Google IPs.

New comment by jamesog in "Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing"

jamesog — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:43:26 +0000

"Aesthetic" gets even stickier! In the UK I tend to more commonly hear it pronounced as "es-thetic".

The Great Vowel Shift indeed makes written English much more confusing than it perhaps should be. English is already a messy hodge-podge of a language, then our writing system started to get standardised (or standardized, if you're American!) right as pronunciation started to change, leading to the written version of words suddenly no longer being anything like the pronunciation.

New comment by jamesog in "Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing"

jamesog — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:47:17 +0000

US English spells it as encyclopedia, British English spells it as encyclopaedia.

New comment by jamesog in "Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing"

jamesog — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:44:18 +0000

It should more properly be written as dæmon. The æ ("ash") character is usually pronounced more like "ee", as in encyclopædia. I've never heard anyone say "encycloPAYdia" :-)

New comment by jamesog in "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"

jamesog — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:40:14 +0000

The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies

Where Is All of the Fediverse?

jamesog — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38967378

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets

jamesog — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/github-changesets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718132

Points: 224

# Comments: 205

Go Proposal: runtime/trace flight recording

jamesog — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:58:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63185

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37632722

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Buzz Language

jamesog — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://buzz-lang.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37609159

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesog in "K9s: A lazier way to manage Kubernetes Clusters"

jamesog — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:51:19 +0000

I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.

Photomator for Mac

jamesog — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2023/05/16/photomator-for-mac-is-out-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967782

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

We Use Cue (and Not Helm)

jamesog — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudplane.org/blog/why-cue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33106940

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mastodon for iOS

jamesog — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:00:21 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodon-for-iphone/id1571998974

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28009982

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jamesog in "Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning"

jamesog — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:09:18 +0000

Since the introduction of APFS I've taken to creating a new APFS volume formatted as case-sensitive, and put my git repositories there.

This has mostly been useful for working on shared repositories where, say, a Linux user (or other user on a case-sensitive filesystem) pushes two branches, say `feature/foo` and `feature/Foo` which works fine for them, but on a case-insensitive filesystem, git gets very upset.

New comment by jamesog in "Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes"

jamesog — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:53:05 +0000

Managed Kubernetes exists because Kubernetes is so mind-bendingly complex.

Nomad, on the other hand, is pretty simple and easy to run, and a single binary. There's probably no benefit to having a managed offering.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if HashiCorp add Nomad to HashiCorp Cloud Platform, which currently lets you deploy Consul and Vault to cloud providers via their system.