Alex McRoberts

A while ago I put together a Google Sheet for helping leaders reflect on their strengths and weaknesses. It uses heuristics from The Complete Leader, and Google’s Project Oxygen. Ratings are from 1 (low) to 10 (high) and the result is a nice pair of diagrams to identify things to improve.

Just incase you don't feel old yet... Chuckie Finster, from Rugrats, is now 37 years old. Angelica Pickles is 38. Tommy Pickles, Phil and Lil DeVille are 36.

Woohoo! Snow season is coming!

@marcoarment.bsky.social glad to have you back - hopefully Bluesky Communities can be a useful place to you when they launch. 3d printing question for you- what printer do you have / would you recommend for starting out?

Dessa looks interesting. Interested to see the corpus of voice chats they trained on. block.xyz/dessa

Blake just working away! The agent isn’t on my phone. The agent is running on my laptop, and using the LED board as a status board. In this case it’s connected to the phone as a power source (any USB-C power source works!)

Everyone say hello to Magnus! My agents alert me through a Neopixel ESP-32. Magnus is one of the agents, you can see there’s 2 active agents in this video - 1 per row. Going to push this code up over the next couple of days, and your agents can do this too!

When an agent estimates work as "Proposed plan: Spike (about 30 min):" Cute. See you in 3 minutes!

btw, if you've been sleeping on The Diplomat, highly recommend you watch it. Latest season was 🤯

I just asked if something was "on a talk track for tomorrow?". Now I'm going to have to circle back with myself, and then I'll have to loop back and double down to ensure there's alignment. *send help*

Today's BANGER: open.spotify.com/track/1CB3me...

My agents are in The Matrix, Mr. Anderson.

Did the sun set on @skylight.social? Their account seems to have gone dark on Bluesky posts around 5 months ago.

My local library (funded by taxes, in a quite progressive municipality) is asking for donations to improve their services. I’m a library fan! I’m a library user! I already pay taxes! I’m *not* frustrated with their request, I *am* frustrated that taxes don’t cover this service enough already.

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

"You may find the trick-or-treators a little bit bigger and furrier than average". Yep, they're in the neighbourhood!

Jev it up. Jev it up!

I will never understand people driving cars while drinking out of a ceramic cup with a handle - like the usual coffee cup you use at home. How does this drink not spill on bumpy roads, sudden braking, going uphill or downhill? I have questions!!!

Whatever happened to the PDS-as-a-service? Did that idea ever take off? No sarcasm, genuinely asking - I have an idea.

This is correct historically but I think it’s worth questioning the assumption moving forward. Code half life is much shorter now. Models can afford to treat it as temporary and living in a way humans never really could. I expect this has major implications for best practices.

Bring back guitar playing dancers. It’s time.

Canadiano is to Canada, as Freedom Fries are to America. 🙄

Randomly discovered during the week that if you have an Alexa device – you can place calls to mobile and landline numbers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Mexico at no cost!

Wonder how this news might impact @val.town /cc @stevekrouse.com @macwright.com

Good grief. I just want to buy an Adafruit product for $8 USD and shipping to Canada would be *$40 USD* It’s unavailable for sale from Canadian retailers too!

It's going to be interesting to see how UIs are delivered as codified JSON blocks. The screen will become dynamically rendered on demand by AI. We've seen this in Slack apps, Teams, and Tapestry. OpenAI with GPT-6 is going to accelerate this massively. Glad I toyed with this last year!

The world could do with another album from Them Crooked Vultures

The latest catchphrase "<Platform> is designed to be the unified [memory|data|knowledge|workflow] layer for production AI agents!" That's weird! Your platform has been around 10+ years. Have you rebuilt your platform just for AI agents? Or how did you know this was coming so many years ago?!

Missed a trick here. Starlight is what you need 🎶

Today's BANGER. Starlight by The Supermen Lovers and Mani Hoffman. open.spotify.com/track/6YsLTp...

There’s a baby squirrel in the tree in our backyard. It’s been to visit every day the past 2 weeks or so. Decided to name it Russell - does a great job shaking the leaves and branches!

Could a PDS be text only, and not support blobs? /cc @pds.dad

Jira's "updated Description" UI is *so brutal*, I just got Cursor to build me a visual diff tool like Github's PR Review. ✱Much✱ better.

Nevermind that. I just can't believe they found the reference star that is used for the star emoji, and it looks just like it!

Casually referred to my colleague as "Mr. MBA 2000". He asked for PowerPoint slides, and since we're a Google Docs shop, the whole team had a chuckle (including him).

Everybody jevving it up. You love to see it! clef-evals.workers-ai-mle.workers.dev

This is the way. Did we tell people their account was stored in MySQL in the before times? Let the network effects take place after they use their first Atmosphere app.

There’s no irony here…attendees of AtmosphereConf 2026 may recognize at least one of the buildings in The Social Reckoning!

Iffff I was to go to Shenzen for 2 days in March next year… What are the best places to go? What are the best things to do? I’d have a heavy preference for anything electronics and/or hardware focused!

“Jev it up” is now a verb phrase. It’s official, because I keep using it in calls 🤣

I too feel my hackles escalating. This is great!

@mk.gg is this the thing you were talking about? www.infoq.com/news/2026/09...

It’s the Bluesky PDS name factory (even spotted my own Mushroom!)

Pre-FedCM might not be around forever, but for now, it's a good way to tell users they've already got an Atmosphere account, and they're using it somewhere else already! 🎉