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

The iPhone Duo is to well-to-do parents-of-younger-than-teenage-kids what the Watch Ultra was for bros at the gym

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 07/09/2026

If you have any recommendations for similar I’ll happily hear them!

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

It was truly 9 hours of DJ excellence. So glad I went. They were all good but Helena Hauff blew my mind.

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 · 31/08/2026

I wonder if this triggers them bringing back the rack mount Mac server. Especially with the change of leadership.

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.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 22/08/2026

I haven't particularly followed English domestic football (soccer) for 30 years but the World Cup made me interested again. And like many British-born people I've known which team I support since before I could walk. Which is all to say I could have picked a better day to restart being a #Spurs fan.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/08/2026

I know there were good reasons why (urrr, pandemic) and I may be bitter (my O’Reilly book was published in April 2020) but I partly blame that they killed their conference division - I know there was a lot of good Book Chatter that happened at those events.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/08/2026

What?!? Amazing! From Lambda to La-La Land!

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 15/08/2026

Newspapers channeling deep “we’re just trying to find the guy that did this” vibes today. The damn ghouls.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 07/08/2026

William Orbit died. While he was best known for producing / co-creating Madonna’s Ray of Light album, I used to listen to his solo Strange Cargo 3 and Hinterland albums on repeat when I was at university. This is Water from a Vine Leaf, with Beth Orton on vocals, from then: youtu.be/PneAIfv30jA?...

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William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

YouTube video by atmosfearic1

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 07/08/2026

Wow - haven’t thought about that place in a long time. Had one of the best meals of my life there.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 02/08/2026

Turns out you can go to your first hard trance night of your life at age 48 and it’s all fine. Not sure I’ll do that specific type of music too often, but because NYC has such a huge dance music scene, it turns out, I have many other options.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 31/07/2026

Wow - congrats! And all the best for whatever comes next.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 29/07/2026

Just use “monkey trumpets” every other sentence, that’ll convince people

Jason @jaydoubleyou1969.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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Solitary brother Is there still a part of you that wants to live? Solitary sister Is there still a part of you that wants to give?

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 24/07/2026

There might be nothing in life that makes me feel like a boomer as much as trying to use Youtube. Especially on iphone / Apple TV. The whole UX just never does what I expect. I know it's full of bugs and ad dark patterns, but still.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 23/07/2026

Uggghhhhhh our industry is awful.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/07/2026

I’ve played Factorio a A Lot (!), and for a long time I’ve wanted to try Satisfactory, but it’s not supported on Mac. Recently I finally got around to trying it with @codeweavers.com CrossOver Mac and it works very well on my M1 Studio. CrossOver isn’t free, but it’s a lot cheaper than buying a PC.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 17/07/2026

Last night's theatre was Death of a Salesman. Worthy of its Tony win (again), but I never expected to see Willy Loman as a failed Trump-like character. The play's words with this direction amplifies its damning indictment of the American dream. Lies, exceptionalism, bluster, that all ends in tragedy

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Lizzie Boyle @lizzieboylesays.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s the hope that this hope will somehow be different from all the previous hopes that killed you that kills you…

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I have been using this for the last week and I absolutely love it. This is the browser based Claude Code dev environment running on AWS Lambda MicroVMs with S3Files as persistence. There are two blogs and a repo. Start here, it link to the others. edjgeek.com/blog/claude-...

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Lambda MicroVMs + S3 Files: My Claude Code Sandbox for iPad — edjgeek

A walkthrough of building a browser-based Claude Code shell that runs in an AWS Lambda MicroVM with a persistent S3 Files home. Signed in with Cognito, deployed with SAM.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 15/07/2026

Thanks Eric. At some point I need to dig into mVMs + S3 Files myself, so this is all useful stuff.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 15/07/2026

Hi Eric - been a while! This was an interesting read. 1 Q - why S3 Files over EFS? I’m still trying to get my head around the pros and cons of those two in a Lambda / microvm context.

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

Yeah, might need to give that a rewatch this weekend

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 · 12/07/2026

This morning we (coincidentally!) drove through Lindsay Graham’s small home town. That was weird.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 09/07/2026

Rewatched The Good Place and I’m glad to report it remains one of the greatest comedy TV series. That last episode though, yeesh, it gets you right in the feels.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 08/07/2026

From the Guardian: Andy Burnham, who is set to become PM within a fortnight, has also posted what looks a bit like a quasi-endorsement of Count Binface in the Clacton byelection on social media. He says: “Always worth knowing when bin day is.” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Clacton byelection likely to take place on 6 August – as it happened

Count Binface to be one of few challengers to Nigel Farage as major parties boycott contest

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Big May Morning energy. Especially if you had a college Ball the night before & still hadn’t gone to bed before going to the bridge + pub.

#NYC #theatre -goers : I saw Titanique last night and laughed harder than I have in a long time. I saw it off-off Broadway a few years back too and it’s even funnier than I remember. Jim Parsons is having the time of his life, but all the cast - old and new - are great. Fab, queer, & very silly.

“Smoke tests” … like, no. They can’t have that.

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Another day; another thing apparently I can’t say any more because it sounds like I’m an LLM

Oggie @oggie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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The Holy Father is also Bob from Chicago, and woe betide those who forget that he, too, contains two wolves.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 30/06/2026

As a vague supporter of the England football team over the last few decades, I am enjoying the schadenfreude of Germany being the first team ever to go out on penalties in a round-of-32 knockout World Cup match. That I can call it “schadenfreude” makes it even better. Sorry 🇩🇪 ;)

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 26/06/2026

Two year rent freeze for rent stabilized apartments in NYC! Our mayor is having a good week. So are us New Yorkers!

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 23/06/2026

Oh, you went to one of those _fancy_ colleges with their own punts? I see. Us commoners on the far side of St Aldates had to hire our own punts. ;) Although we did throw one hell of a eights week party back in my day.

Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 23/06/2026

Wow, 27 years on and I can still hear in my head the sound of metal pole on wooden punt