Mike Roberts
mikebroberts.com
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
If you can squeeze in Liberation too I absolutely recommend it.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I enjoyed this version of Godot a lot!
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bad Place GIF
Alt: Gif from the show “the good place” with text “this is the bad place”
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October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's weird how quickly my inner monologue said "DI Burnside" to that photo, having not thought about the character in probably 30 years. Teenage brains, man. Wish I still had one of those.
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The error message on SunOS/Solaris (I think) for failing reading an NFS share was "NFS server [name] not responding", and way back in the day (pre 2000) I came across a place that called their NFS servers after adverbs. E.g. "stubbornly" . Of course some clever person called one "probably" too. Fun.
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is the way! (Surprisingly the new Instagram iPad app actually does this. I don’t know for how long…)
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Heart surgery?! Yeesh - sorry to hear that. Glad you're recovering though!
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
OK, that was going to be my guess. :) I think it's down to ~ US$2 / month now for a very small ARM function, but yeah it's still annoying that there's a non trivial cost.
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you’re able and happy to share, I’d genuinely be interested to know why (and why not the alternatives). I can definitely imagine some use cases but they are pretty specific.
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I can totally see that. It would be the same if it was their version of the Doctor Who theme there. Out There Somewhere just ends things so well.

I shall now attempt to forget that other people’s versions of the album do this. :)
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And despite my love of Orbital - especially Halcyon - The Private Psychedelic Reel by the Chemical Brothers is the correct answer here. ;)
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was very confused until I just learned that, after I bought it, they tacked on The Saint to the end of In Sides. Ewwww! Nope, that's not how it ends in my brain, and I've still got the (original) CD to prove it. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Sides
In Sides - Wikipedia
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October 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Don't call it a comeback" 🤣
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM