Alex McRoberts

@alex.mcroberts.me

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Director, AI Engineering. Previously Damon Motorcycles, Intel, Recon Instruments. Living in Vancouver. From Belfast http://alex.mcroberts.me/

Hollow tree with my bike parked in the centre of it. You ride through this tree as part of a route. This is Circuit 8 Trail
Where else do you find a 136 year old bakery and cafe?! The old stone brick and slate roof buildings
White moth with black dots
The Anakin Padme meme. Anakin says “we’ve got a trademark and we’ll license it” Padme asks “licenses will also be AT Proto records, right?”. Then, in classic Anakin Padme meme fashion, Anakin stares and Padme repeats the question.
BC Place with the Swiss flag in the foreground of the pitch, and the Colombia flag on the far end of the pitch. The FIFA emblem covers the centre circle. So many Colombia fans at the stadium today - there is a sea of yellow!
Danny Murphy, Former England midfielder on BBC website A post titled "We did get him back' - Murphy on Bob the cat" Body of the post reads: Surprisingly there was a lot of interest... we did get him back six or seven weeks later. Unfortunately he had gone feral and we couldn't re-intergrate him in the home and he ended up living with my friend's parents in Preston. That was the life he had and now he has passed away, unfortunately. Thanks for all the concern those who have been messaging us.
Danny Murphy, Former England midfielder on BBC One, made a post on BBC Sport coverage of the Ivory Coast vs Norway game. "I used to have a cat called Bob and he jumped in the back of a Royal Mail van and he lost him."
Canada and Qatar flags each cover their respective half on the pitch with the FIFA logo covering the centre circle. BC Place, Vancouver, Canada
Selfie with a bunch of Canada fans
BC Place absolutely cracking atmosphere. White material roof is closed. The crowd are wearing mostly red, white or black. On the field are giant New Zealand and Egypt flags with the FIFA logo covering the centre circle of the field.
A lavender flower stalk with a bee landed on it. Above is the white, flower crab spider which has attacked and killed the bee.
BC Place, Vancouver, Vancouver. Upper bowl. The white roof is closed. The turf is real grass. A sea of red and white surround the pitch. The Qatari fans are dressed in white in the far corner.
There is a ginger cat outside the back door of our house. The cat is framed behind a 9 framed window in the door
iPhone Call Filter screen A call from Ohio. iOS asks the caller to leave their name and reason for calling. The person identifies as Jerry. iOS then asks the person to stay on the line, and offers the phone owner a slide to answer UI option to answer the call.
Flight radar 24 showing the flight path of K35R a US airforce stratotanker. It flew in from Spokane and has been doing laps above Whiterock, Surrey, North Vancouver, Squamish for the past 90+ minutes
6 posts from different posters in a thread. After viewing an image and following the steps in my post, the text from these other posters replying in a thread is no longer text wrapped to the width of the screen, and it seems to run of the right edge of the screen. Unfortunately it’s erratic and seemingly hard to reproduce
Apple News app with The Washington Post Can't do a European vacation? Visit these 10 European-inspired U.S. cities. These towns can transport you to lands where windmills spin, tulips bloom, hefeweizen flows and bilingual signs welcome - and välkommen or willkommen or witamy. May 30 at 6:00 AM 2026 People walk along the shops and restaurants of Saint George Street in the historic district of St. Augustine, Florida. (iStock)
Google search "they sent me to bring you down" Google's AI Overview response: You'll have to do a lot better than that. It sounds like you were expecting me to crack or back down, but I'm not going anywhere. Whatever they are paying you, it's not enough to break this stride. Tell them to try again. Now, let's get back to what we were doing before you were so dramatically interrupted. What did you actually want to talk about?
White winged fall webworm. Has small wings, and a black eyes, with brown upper front legs. Wings are flapping for take off!
A cropped portion of Google Meet loading screen. The hamburger loading menu is beside the icon, and "Google Meet", with links to Meetings and Calls tabs. The Google Meet icon has been changed, and is yellow (Top Top: read the next image caption!)
Dargida procinctus, the olive green cutworm or girdler moth sitting wings folded on my car door. Its pattern looks like a 3d printed effect, with dark browns and creams.
Just Write’s app logo is the word mark “Write” written in black text in a serif font, on a solid cream colour background
Mino mobi - i drew a triangle with 95% accuracy
4 variants of the phrase "Techniques > Tools". All text is using a serif font, and all words are italicized. Variant 1: Teal text on white background. Variant 2: Orange text on white background. Variant 3: Teal text on black background. Variant 4: Orange text on white background.
4 variants of the phrase "Techniques > Tools". All text is using a serif font. Variant 1: Teal text on white background. Variant 2: Orange text on white background. Variant 3: Teal text on black background. Variant 4: Orange text on white background.
The Luxembourg airport terminal building is copper brown and glass. In front is the wing and tail of a propellor engine Bombardier Q400 plane
The Pont Grande-Duchesse Charlotte is a distinctively red batter post style bridge. Its spans a valley. Beneath the bridge is a railway, and series of cars, buildings and a road
Ian Boudreau .com reposted fuzz wolf dot b sky dot social. Ian comments: Gibson actually calls this out in the introduction to the 2004 edition of Neuromancer: "a whopping anachronism, right at the very start of my career in the imaginary future." It's a thoughtful reflection on the book's 20th anniversary Fuzzy wolf posts: Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Below, the meme has 3 city skylines. The background changes for each one: 1985 the background is a phosphorus grey like a static TV 2005 is a solid blue digital TV colour 2025 is a collection of streaming platform logos including Hulu Netflix etc.
Demo video of a note taking app!
The login form of Yahoo! Messenger, beta release for Mac released in 2007. Fieldss are Yahoo! ID for the identifier, password, and 3 checkboxes to: remember password, automatically sign in, and sign in as invisible. Plus two buttons to create a Yahoo! ID and sign in. The 2007 era was the brushed metal UI chroma for Apple OS X around the Leopard version
Black bear sighting poster on a street lamp. The bear was spotted yesterday. There’s guidance to not leave food out, keep dogs on leash, talk calmly and back away from the bear slowly to give it space.
The Fleetwood Flyer logo. Fleetwood and Flyer are stacked. Flyer is capitalized. White text on a blue background. There are go faster stripes coming off the "F", "t" and "d" of Fleetwood, and a double go faster stripe coming off the "F" in Flyer
Overcast podcast player more menu, with the share clip option selected. This is the Dish podcast - highly recommend.
Orthosia transparens, in Vancouver. It’s a furry little brown moth!
Inside the capsule of the Artemis II mission. The astronauts are working through a process. One astronaut can be seen with their arms folded, with cargo pants, with a belt and a tshirt. There are lots of items around the capsule including a Canada and USA flag on the wall
The iOS coin emoji. The embossed text on the coin “The Crazy Ones 2020”
A thread reader, with night mode. Accessed via the iOS shortcut called wormhole from at dame is
The Artemis app tracker. Orion space craft is orbiting earth before it slingshots to a specific place in space. Right now the moon is orbiting towards that specific spot. Imagine a ring on a string. The string is being swung like a lasso. Now try and move your hand to catch the ring. You don’t aim where the ring is, you aim where it’s going to be passing by at a certain point in time. Now replace the ring with the moon, and your hand with the Orion space craft.
The 2000s themed atmosphere conference website that Nick Gerakines put together. It's got Comic Sans for a font, solid block colours, and horrible (complimentary) yellows and reds. The colour contrasts are awful, but mostly usable.
using the input type equals url changes the onscreen keyboard by eliminating the space key, and bringing the period and dot com buttons to the screen saving lots of user input friction and time.
Stripe's website was turned into a 90s theme like geo cities for April Fools
VLC Desktop showing a playlist of all the video talks. This playlist was generated by iterating over all the atproto records. Each talk is an atproto record
A plastic box full of googly eyes just like @ bad example aka fig aka Phil puts on their atproto hardware!
Blue skies and whispy clouds
Overcast Add Podcast screen showing the search result for the Still Burning podcast
Kagi's Translate feature converts the text "lol" to "Pure joy" when converting from "English" to "Apple Marketing Copy"
A cleared path in Pacific Spirit Park. Surrounded by trees, the path is lined with fencing made from wood cut from the forest
Suspected tissue moth (definitely a moth!) on my window
White cherry blossom on tree branches being lit up by the street light (not pictured) above it.
on the bluesky.md website, a little toast popup showing Jack's avatar, name and Internet Handle. A brief description, "Built by jack – follow to hear about updates and new tools." and a link to follow him on Bluesky
A portrait of Anthony Head on his Wikipedia page. The caption of the image on the Wikipedia page reads: "Anthony's Head"
Yours truly, wearing an Irish Rugby jersey, a Leprechaun’s hat, and green clover shaped, striped glasses. Yes, I did in fact dress like this for work meetings today.
Home Screen on WatchOS. 2 widgets from this app - showing minimum and maximum heart rates. One widget is a bar showing the two numbers on a horizontal line. The second widget is a gauge showing minimum, maximum and average heart rate.
WatchOS app showing how long a person sleeps in hours and minutes; their minimum and maximum heart rates during that time, and their sleep score.
Apple Watch showing Sleep over the past few days. Oddly there’s some duplicates to iron out.
Google Search I searched for "sorry mate it's nah good" Al Mode returns: "I hear you. My apologies that the previous information wasn't helpful or accurate. If you can tell me a bit more about what you were looking for, I can try again to get it right."
Apple Watch app I'm toying with. App shows "Sleep" with time, and min/max heart rates, plus a chart showing heart rate while I was asleep. The text and charts are white, on a purple to black gradient background
A chrome tab with the Collective Social favicon and the letters "Co". The contrast of the favicon makes it really hard to see.
Bluesky with scattered white clouds running diagonally into the distance. In the foreground are a host of evergreen trees, and a small view of a mountain in North Vancouver