Aken Roberts

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

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

Can SSD prices please come back down to normal? 😤

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

No let Bomo beat my Frogger score.

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.

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

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

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

These skimmers are getting out of hand

Email spam is through the roof for me lately, jeez

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

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

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.

🎶 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. 🎶

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."

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

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.

Neck pain is making it really hard to concentrate today 😣

Ouch 🤕

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

Have any developer friends of mine tried the Zed code editor? Thoughts? zed.dev

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

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

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...).

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.

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… 🫣

Coming very soon! #buildinpublic

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

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

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

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

Late night shenanigans 🤖

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. 🤬

Shower idea #309: state lottery that funds business investments

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?

Omg today’s Wordle 🤬

If you need me, I’ll be getting fat from the cinnamon toast crunch mixer… www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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