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Mike Roberts

@mikebroberts.com

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

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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

06.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 6239 πŸ” 1229 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 87

I was about to reply and ask was this directed at Labour or Reform but in a split second I realized the answer to that question was β€œyes”.

27.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As was your’s. :)

16.02.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

16.02.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This was the push I needed to finally export all my old Evernote data and close my account there. I haven't used it in a few years, but I just don't trust Bending Spoons (the current owners) with my data.

obsidian.md is all round a much better option for me.

14.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On a Friday afternoon, even better.

30.01.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The weather is Too Damn Cold.

(In my best Jimmy McMillan voice)

#TinyProblemsInComparisonWithEverythingElseGoingOn

29.01.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien

John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

15.01.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 2313 πŸ” 604 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 18
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a man in a superhero costume is smiling at another man in a suit . Alt: Thor is smiling at another man in a suit saying β€œis it though”

Yeah, distinct β€œis it though” vibes to me. I notice there’s no mention in the article about who owns this - which I take to mean at the end of the day it’s a company or individuals in the US. So they can have all the local β€œoperators” and β€œadvisors” they want - if the owners want to bypass they can

15.01.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You? Embarrassing brits? I don’t believe it.

15.01.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nearly crashed my car because I passed a van for a dogsitting service called IGGY PUP and felt the need to spontaneously applaud.

15.01.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean - one flesh, one end - still kind of valid

12.01.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2026 New York City Inauguration Ceremony YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

NYC's new mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will rightly get the headlines, but at their inaugurations today public advocate Jumaane Williams @jumaane.bsky.social gave one of the most real political speeches I've ever heard. Incredible. Watch here, at 45 mins in www.youtube.com/live/iazY_UD...

02.01.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same. I was convinced there were hellhounds at the bottom of my bed for a long time after, and I can still remember feeling so.

29.12.2025 03:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently today is a Sunday

28.12.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I totally recommend having some good food and good drinks and listening to music you and your beau / belle / bex [1] have loved for 20+ years. It works well for my spouse and I. And happy new year.

[1] is that a word? Feels like it should be.

27.12.2025 06:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Attention @shs96c.bsky.social :

26.12.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of an MTA sign from the subway explaining the FM swap, with a logo showing the F and M lines swapping places via crisscrossing arrows.

A photo of an MTA sign from the subway explaining the FM swap, with a logo showing the F and M lines swapping places via crisscrossing arrows.

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

18.12.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 4312 πŸ” 832 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 50

I fell for a phishing attack yesterday. Got away with it, fortunately, since the fake site didn’t handle 2FA, and I didn’t use the password for anything else. But if you see an email from ”Mailchimp” saying β€œCampaign Issue Detected” that actually goes to β€œmailchimp accounts dot com” then be aware.

18.12.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lambda durable functions - AWS Lambda Lambda durable functions extend traditional Lambda to support durable execution, enabling fault-tolerant applications that can run for up to one year.

New #AWS architectural refactoring just dropped: "Replace Step Function with Durable Lambda Function"

But seriously - this looks like a very neat addition to Lambda. Will be fun to try it out and find where the holes are.

docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/lates...

03.12.2025 00:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Announcing AWS Lambda Managed Instances, a capability to run functions on your Amazon EC2 instances - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS Lambda Managed Instances, a capability to run functions on your Amazon EC2 instances

#Servermore aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

#AWS

01.12.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

29.11.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 12217 πŸ” 2369 πŸ’¬ 246 πŸ“Œ 451

Are we dealing with an epidemic?

28.11.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour among Thieves from two years ago and it really is a wonderful movie. Deserves to be considered in the league of all great action fantasy films that don’t take themselves too seriously, but are seriously well made.

28.11.2025 03:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Back in 2020 I published a book, with my good friend John Chapin, on using AWS Lambda with Java. Most of the book holds up well, but one thing that didn’t was the code examples,Β so I’ve made a few updatesΒ to the example repo. More details of what I changed here: blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-1...

24.11.2025 22:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing I love about Viticulture is I think that theme and the rules work so well together.

Also the expansion (Tuscany) is small and adds a fun couple of extra elements.

24.11.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I resubscribed to Netflix yesterday after 2 or 3 years away, and it’s a very jarring experience using a consumer app, that I’m paying for, that’s insidiously designed to maximize business KPIs rather than my own experience.

Examples and more thoughts here: hachyderm.io/@mikebrobert...

19.11.2025 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh interesting - no I didn't know about that library, or thi.ng generally

18.11.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of code example from https://github.com/symphoniacloud/hiccough/blob/main/test/hiccoughCore.test.ts

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

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

18.11.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oooooh, that's a new one to me - I like it!

16.11.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0