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Michael Roberts

@michaelroberts.bsky.social

UCL Astrophysics alumnus. Amateur Astronomer. Lead Software Engineer @LumiSpace. Previously @LoftOrbital. Go / Vue3 / Typescript / Nuxt / Python. Amateur Astrophotographer. Building https://observerly.com. GitHub: https://github.com/michealroberts

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Hadn’t heard of this podcast! :)

20.07.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us on August 13 for Localhost!

🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena.

RSVP below ⬇️

18.07.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 308    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Looks amazing Nico!

19.07.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Alexander, do you recommend using even just for the alien signals?

19.07.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So I have been building (and almost finished for launch πŸš€) observerly. An all in one astronomical observation platform, with the ability to live control telescopes around the world. Including your own! Drop me a DM or message if you’re interested in beta testing!

19.07.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their β€˜irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.07.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1477    πŸ” 617    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 63
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Across the entire planet, from Ireland to Costa Rica, livestock farming has been an utter catastrophe for forests and other natural habitats, replacing unimaginably species-rich ecosystems with sterile cattle or sheep pastures.

How we eat is killing life on Earth 🌎

17.06.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 375    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4
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Diversity, equity and inclusion I'm in favour of diversity, equity and inclusion in open source communities, and here's why I think it matters.

a few words that I think are important to say on diversity, equity and inclusion in open source (and more generally)

much love ❀️

roe.dev/blog/diversity

08.03.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7

The median average senior software engineer’s salary in the UK is Β£70K, this is priced above that. Also, not a good look to be brazenly prejudiced and openly racist against developers in India. Please don’t interact with me again.

14.12.2024 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frontend UI Developer (Vue 3, TypeScript & @unovis) at observerly observerly is looking for a Frontend UI Developer (Vue 3, TypeScript & @unovis)

I’m looking for a freelance Vue & TypeScript developer to join the observerly team to build the next generation of astronomy applications, if you think you would fit the bill and love all things space πŸ”­ please apply:

vuejobs.com/jobs/observe...

14.12.2024 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of the earth showing the pacific ocean. You can see hawaii and New Zealand. Also the edge of antarctica, australia, and north and south america...but barely.

A picture of the earth showing the pacific ocean. You can see hawaii and New Zealand. Also the edge of antarctica, australia, and north and south america...but barely.

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.

Though πŸ”΅ is a fair approximation of what it would look like.

People underestimate the Pacific.

06.12.2024 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 18425    πŸ” 1784    πŸ’¬ 582    πŸ“Œ 230

Only added very recently by Vue 3.5 :)

30.11.2024 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would pay good money for this. I’ve been doing Vue for years but feel like I am terrible at building design systems. πŸ˜‚πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

25.11.2024 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone in the Vue ecosystem know what the status is for Vue vapor mode? Patiently excited :)

21.11.2024 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see the faked astronomy image accounts on here, feels like an authentic social media platform now. πŸ˜‚

21.11.2024 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No worries at all. I can’t seem to find any regressions either. Looks good.

21.11.2024 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, so for a pretty decent production application I have, on Vue 3, there seems that build output size is slightly improved :) and, interestingly, memory consumption has gone from ~80MB down to ~45-60MB. (However, could be because I’ve gone from v10 to v12)

21.11.2024 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Appreciated :) thanks Filip, Rob’s great. Check out his work!

21.11.2024 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will try this out shortly :)

21.11.2024 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everybody go and follow @robsoriano.com - a great member if the Vue community!! @filrakow.ski could you add him to the Vue starter pack please πŸ™

21.11.2024 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No objections

20.11.2024 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of why I am here :)

14.11.2024 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loving this venue. It’s like you’re in the Temple of Jupiter or something πŸ˜‚

14.11.2024 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Removed Twitter from my GitHub profile and replaced with BlueSky 🩡 πŸ¦‹

07.11.2024 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Vitest posts to X that is going to be mainly active in bluesky from now on. And that the community should join here for updates.

Vitest posts to X that is going to be mainly active in bluesky from now on. And that the community should join here for updates.

From now on, we'll use our @bsky.app account as our main feed for Vitest updates. vitest.dev and GitHub have been updated; you won't find any X links there. Let's do Open Source in an Open Source social network πŸ¦‹

06.11.2024 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 625    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 16

Yep, sadly. My partner also experienced this and was a little put off by it.

04.11.2024 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100%. And it’s really easy to make bad software.

04.11.2024 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nuxt 3.14 Β· Nuxt Blog Nuxt 3.14 is out - with a new rspack builder, shared folder, and pe!

Nuxt v3.14 is out!

⚑️ faster starts with jiti v2
πŸ“‚ shared folder for vue/nitro code
πŸ¦€ rspack builder
✨ new composables
πŸ”§ module utilities
🚧 new v4 updates

nuxt.com/blog/v3-14

04.11.2024 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

I’m finding myself going to BlueSky now over Twitter, I really hope we can dip Twitter to a point where it reigns in a certain man’s ego.

04.11.2024 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhhh interesting. I see the BlueSky API is an rpc … lovely.

03.11.2024 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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