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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 17/09/2026

Hell yeah, I'm excited for this. I'll need to keep an eye out for tickets going on sale.

Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 17/09/2026

Yeeaaahhhh, if my health insurance provider could just stop sending me marketing fluff emails, that'd be fucking great 🙄

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 08/09/2026

Shout out to Alex Michelsen playing his face off at the US Open 🎾 Into the quarter finals of a grand slam, the deepest he's gotten in *any* ATP 250+ tournament. And along the way, he hasn't lost a single set. 22 years old! Keep an eye on this kid.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 08/09/2026

Can SSD prices please come back down to normal? 😤

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 07/09/2026

Two new PHP elephants for the herd! Up to 14 now. #php #elephpant

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 05/07/2026

No let Bomo beat my Frogger score.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 30/06/2026

Absolutely gorgeous full moon here in the Milwaukee area tonight 🌕 The nice part about really hot days is the comfortably-warm evenings. Wrapping up my work day on the deck.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 29/06/2026

Damn you, Critical Role, for making such an entertaining cartoon! Is season five out yet?!

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 28/06/2026

If you aren't sure how dirty your laptop is, take it outside into the sun...

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 25/06/2026

I bought a new hose today, so things are going pretty well 💦

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/04/2026

These skimmers are getting out of hand

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 28/02/2026

Email spam is through the roof for me lately, jeez

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 19/02/2026

Loved watching their run this year. What a perfect ending. 🥇 On Wisconsin!

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 08/02/2026

Well done Team USA figure skating! 👏🏼🥇🫶🏼

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 27/01/2026

Something is in the air today. The people in my area are crazy. Driving into Milwaukee was a nightmare of speeding and tailgating. My wife’s restaurant is receiving calls like “Tell me your phone number” 🤔 This weather needs to warm up, y’all.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 26/01/2026

An interesting trend I've noticed recently: When managing billing information, like your credit card on file, I now have to open the mobile app to make changes. Payment methods or sometimes even entire billing management is not available via the web. Used to be totally the other way around.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 23/01/2026

🎶 As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered history. Check it again against your list and see consistency. I never spent a cent that wasn't mine. You sent the dogs after my scent, that's fine. 🎶

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 22/01/2026

Grammar reminder: use "fewer" when you can quantify (count) the thing, and "less" when you can't. ✅ "We can run fewer ads." ✅ "We can run ads for less money." ❌ "We can run less ads for less money."

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 14/01/2026

How big is your Watch Later playlist in YouTube? Mine is 392 videos 🫣

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/01/2026

Okay hear me out Packers fans: Aaron Rodgers comes back with a one game contract. He comes in when we’re in the red zone and makes his last NFL pass a touchdown. Meanwhile, and for the remainder of the season, he’s the offensive coordinator.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/01/2026

Neck pain is making it really hard to concentrate today 😣

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/01/2026

Bah, credit card info got stolen. Charges will be reversed, so not worried about that. Pain in the ass to update all your regular charges, though.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 10/01/2026

TIL multiple cast members of The Pitt are not American! Kudos to their accent skills. Never had a clue after watching the first season. Whitaker (who had to change repeatedly due to various liquids) is Welsh, and Javadi (prodigal daughter of docs at the hospital) is Australian.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 10/01/2026

Nobody asked, so here’s my shower routine: - Wash face - Shampoo hair, leave it in (conditioner combo) and brush my teeth Shampoo Mohawk on occasion because sometimes you should be 8 years old again - Rinse hair, grab loofah - Top to bottom - Rinse and end Phone sometimes playing music or YouTube

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 09/01/2026

New word I learned while reading: Morass - a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes. (Along with a couple other definitions, this one being the context I read it in.) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...

merriam-webster.com

Definition of MORASS

marsh, swamp; a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes; an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture… See the full definition

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 02/01/2026

A 2026 resolution of mine: share things I use and enjoy. Today I renewed my email account at Fastmail. - Avoid the Google machine eating all your data - Emails for every domain (perfect for serial project starters like me) - Calendar, too! 10% off your first year: join.fastmail.com/dc5bc18e

Fastmail – Email and calendar made better

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 29/12/2025

Woof, I need to be more active on here. In general, really. My social presences have absolutely tanked in the last two months. Hoping to set up some processes to improve, mostly by adding proactive steps instead of in-the-moment reactive posting only.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/11/2025

Stupid things I’ve said to my cats #319: “Are you investigating my underwear?” Photo tax of said investigator:

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 07/11/2025

The way gambling brands are so interwoven with professional sports (or at least the NFL) is gross

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 05/11/2025

Why is the software to run my wireless document scanner over a gigabyte in size? This seems crazy excessive (acknowledging I know nothing about scanners and their software requirements...).

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 05/11/2025

I have a question about whether my credit union has a notary on staff today, and if I need an appointment. All phone numbers go through a central automated system. It's so much slower and frustrating, when all I want to do is ask a normal person a question that will take at max a minute to answer.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 25/10/2025

The irony of seeing a YouTube video titled “Put down your phone and embrace being bored”, adding it to my Watch Later list, then continuing to scroll… 🫣

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 01/09/2025

Have you heard about an event after it happened that you 🔹totally🔹 would’ve attended? Hey, I’m Aken 👋🏼 I’m building Vibello, an event discovery platform just for you! I want to use algorithms for good, connecting you with all the awesome events that make you happy. Get early access at vibello.com

vibello.com

Vibello, where good vibes come from saying hello 👋🏼

Vibello is a platform for connecting people through events. Let's use these algorithms for good, and touch grass together.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 21/08/2025

Inject this straight into my veins. Can't wait! 💙

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 19/08/2025

SO accurate. Please use a complete thought when cold messaging 🤬 workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-week...

workchronicles.substack.com

(comic) Typing...

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 19/08/2025

AI course app progress: basic GPT wrapper ✅ Python app w/ LangChain, using LCEL to pipe a basic prompt to Claude’s API.

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 19/08/2025

Late night shenanigans 🤖

A screenshot of JSON structured text, with the key "message" and the value "LangChain Application is running!"

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 19/08/2025

Finally disabling push notifications from Facebook. Avoided it for a while for naive reasons. But they’re all predatory. I get a push notification 10 minutes after I’m on the app, for content I already saw that happened 6 hours ago. 🤬

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 17/08/2025

Shower idea #309: state lottery that funds business investments

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 14/08/2025

me: Alexa, play top 40 echo: "This is Van Morrison, on Spotify" me: 😕 wat? "Alexa, play today's popular music" echo: "This is Van Morrison, on Spotify" Just... why?! Did I miss a memo and Van Morrison is somehow the only current popular music?

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 13/08/2025

Omg today’s Wordle 🤬

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 12/08/2025

Water is being a real bitch to us this last week! 💦🪣 9 days ago: daughter broke her finger while swimming when her friend jumped from the diving board and landed on her hand 5 days ago: shower drain developed a hole and leaked all over the ceiling below ⬇️

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 04/08/2025

TIL Arizona has a license plate option that looks like it's from the Matrix 🤯

An Arizona license plate with seven zeros and a background with green ones and zeroes like often seen in The Matrix movies

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 28/07/2025

What resource(s) helped you learn something about AI? - ChatGPT techniques - Understanding how LLMs work - Implementing AI in software - Supercharging software development using Cursor or otherwise Anything! Whatcha got?

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Aken Roberts @akenroberts.com · 23/07/2025

Today is mobile app day! Updating both @staywoven.com and a client's mobile apps to support Android 35. What are you working on? #buildinpublic

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