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Mike Roberts

@mikebroberts.com

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British-American living in Brooklyn, NY. he/him. Runner. Puns. Cats. Theatre. Board games. Work: Architect / Dev / Ops; AWS; Serverless; consulting as symphonia.io . Also on Mastodon at hachyderm.io/@mikebroberts

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 06/09/2026

Went out dancing to Underworld on Friday, then Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff (amazing!), Ben UFO and Craig Richards yesterday. Tired but very happy. So glad I started doing this again.

Craig Richards at Under the K Bridge (Creekside)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 27/08/2026

Rainbow over Prospect Park this morning #nyc

Rainbow over Prospect Park. Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan is visible in the distance.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 22/07/2026

First vinyl of the year

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 13/07/2026

Fun flight path into LGA tonight

Photo taken from a plane looking at Manhattan, facing north, from about 4000 feet

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 14/06/2026

I ❤️ NY

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 05/06/2026

Glorious day in NYC today

Photo of Madison square park. With the sun shining.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 29/05/2026

I went to this place back in 2019 and it was fantastic. It's a bookstore (I think they used to sell banned books?) but also a restaurant, and they did a tasting menu based on a book - when we went it was game of thrones. We were surprised how good the food was. konyvbar.hu/en/

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 17/04/2026

Saw The Chameleons last night in Brooklyn - brilliant show!

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 11/04/2026

Perfect running weather in Brooklyn today

Selfie, with a lake, blue sky and geese behind. I’m wearing running clothes.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 10/04/2026

Friends, I did, and was home before midnight. This is going to be a fun year. (*) (*) when I’m not thinking about everything else.

Photo of the back of my hand. It’s been stamped with a heart shaped stamp saying “Dance your heart out”

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 02/04/2026

Did I watch the launch today? This is some of my lego, so I’ll let you guess. But damn, I wish my default emotion to human launches was still excitement and not anxiety. Oh well.

A photo of Lego sets on a book case and shelf - Eagle lunar lander, space shuttle, Saturn V, ISS. Plus some “women of space” Lego. And a millennium falcon. And 2003 era iPod (not Lego)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 16/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

The cover of the album “dig your own hole” by The Chemical Brothers

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 18/11/2025

For my TypeScript + "doing it the old way" web dev friends - here's a small library - "Hiccough" that generates HTML using a tiny internal DSL. So no templates. github.com/symphoniaclo... Based on the old "Hiccup" Clojure library. I use it for both full pages, and snippets requested via HTMX

Screenshot of code example from https://github.com/symphoniacloud/hiccough/blob/main/test/hiccoughCore.test.ts

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 05/11/2025

WOOOOOOT!!! What a day!

Photo of a TV with Hell Gate calling the NYC mayors race for Zohran Mamdani

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/09/2025

Turns out San Francisco is a heck of a nice place to visit in September.

Photo - huge statue of a woman made of wire (near the ferry terminal)

Photo of Dolores Park, with downtown San Francisco in the background, taken from inside a J light rail / streetcar train.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 10/09/2025

Photo my of my cat Peggy cleaning her .. well .. yes.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 04/07/2025

What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever watched?

A photo of Laszlo the vampire in the show What We Do In The Shadows, Season 2, episode 6 ("On the run"). Caption says "Jackie Daytona, Regular Human Bartender"

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 24/06/2025

Hey NYC friends…

NYC friends - tomorrow is our mayoral primary. Please join me in voting for a fresh take on how to run this great city of ours. I’m going to vote Mamdani and Lander. I’m not ranking Cuomo coz he’s a creepy abuser that, despite his swagger, failed to manage shit during Covid.
Normally cat pictures will now resume.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 25/05/2025

My first time in Iowa, which is surprising considering my in-laws of 15 years live in Missouri just 20 miles or so south of the state line. Anyway, turns out you don’t get a free deep fried butter cow on entering.

Photo of me leaning against a “welcome to Iowa” sign

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 16/05/2025

Well that was pretty great

Looking back at Kings Theatre from near the front

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 31/03/2025

Moody Monday Morning

Photo from my apartment overlooking Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Hazy skyline in the distance

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 22/12/2024

Via @wilwheaton.net ‘s insta.

Cartoon
Santa: Have you been naughty or nice?
Dog: I am ALWAYS a good boy.
Santa: And you?
Cat: [climbs Christmas tree]
© Sarah Andersen
@sarahandersencomics

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 08/07/2024

Thought you'd appreciate this one. The only time (I think) I've ever immediately rewatched an episode of TV.

An image from Battlestar Galactica S3 E04 - Exodus Part 2 with the Galactica jumping out of Hyperspace in the atmosphere of a planet

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 18/06/2024

Same, Andrew Rannells, same. (From x.com/CBSNews/stat...)

Picture of actor Andrew Rannells in a tux + black tie with caption "I mean, I'm not a professional"

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 01/01/2024

Happy 2024 from NYC

Fireworks with skyscrapers, including One World Trade Centre

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 01/01/2024

We went with

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 12/09/2023

Had an absolutely wonderful time yesterday at the “vivarium” at the NYC natural history museum. Up close and personal with hundreds of butterflies and got to see a hatching. 100% recommended for fellow locals and visitors. (Alt for media - videos and photos of butterflies)

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