RoboSchro
@roboschro.bsky.social
Builder and leader of digital engineering and product development teams. Based in London. Often posting silliness or political stuff, because, well... *gestures broadly at everything*
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It's Friday! Though I'm not sure how, 'cause yesterday was surely Saturday, wasn't it? Never mind, we're staying in, with Friday-at-home #cocktails . Today we've got blue champagne*. Cheers! And happy new year!
(*actually made with cava)
(*actually made with cava)
January 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
It's Friday! Though I'm not sure how, 'cause yesterday was surely Saturday, wasn't it? Never mind, we're staying in, with Friday-at-home #cocktails . Today we've got blue champagne*. Cheers! And happy new year!
(*actually made with cava)
(*actually made with cava)
Sorry, those are called what?
*raises eyebrows in British*
*raises eyebrows in British*
i am old enough to remember seeing sooo many well dressed women sporting louboutins all over nyc in the y2ks when i lived on west 4th. here’s what their middle range boots cost right now…
January 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Sorry, those are called what?
*raises eyebrows in British*
*raises eyebrows in British*
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Last year at this time, I posted a thread of a few of my favourite human-made things from the past year. Just a little celebration of some good stuff, in a world that needs good stuff. Doing it again this year, for the same reason.
#BestOf2025
#BestOf2025
January 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Last year at this time, I posted a thread of a few of my favourite human-made things from the past year. Just a little celebration of some good stuff, in a world that needs good stuff. Doing it again this year, for the same reason.
#BestOf2025
#BestOf2025
I think there's a lot of wisdom here
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I think there's a lot of wisdom here
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Trump 2.0’s second year may be even worse than the first. So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Trump 2.0’s second year may be even worse than the first. So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
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2025 sucked.
In 2026, we are taking back our science!
We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
In 2026, we are taking back our science!
We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
January 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
2025 sucked.
In 2026, we are taking back our science!
We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
In 2026, we are taking back our science!
We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
Last year at this time, I posted a thread of a few of my favourite human-made things from the past year. Just a little celebration of some good stuff, in a world that needs good stuff. Doing it again this year, for the same reason.
#BestOf2025
#BestOf2025
January 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Last year at this time, I posted a thread of a few of my favourite human-made things from the past year. Just a little celebration of some good stuff, in a world that needs good stuff. Doing it again this year, for the same reason.
#BestOf2025
#BestOf2025
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
It's Boxing Day, and also Friday. We were out being sociable and familial yesterday, and so today, of course, we're staying in - with Friday-at-home #cocktails ! These are French 77's. Cheers!
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It's Boxing Day, and also Friday. We were out being sociable and familial yesterday, and so today, of course, we're staying in - with Friday-at-home #cocktails ! These are French 77's. Cheers!
It's days like this (Boxing Day) when I am particularly appreciative of British holiday customs (Boxing Day)
December 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It's days like this (Boxing Day) when I am particularly appreciative of British holiday customs (Boxing Day)
Why did LinkedIn send me three notification emails on Christmas Day? Give it a rest, people.
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Why did LinkedIn send me three notification emails on Christmas Day? Give it a rest, people.
Some crackers here
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Some crackers here
Beautiful
Lilac sky and my favourite lane. Taken a while before sunrise in Glastonbury.
December 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Beautiful
Broke my longest-ever Wordle streak by going on holiday and just forgetting to play one day
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Broke my longest-ever Wordle streak by going on holiday and just forgetting to play one day
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Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them.
When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.
Wanna boost your dev productivity?
* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.
Wanna boost your dev productivity?
* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them.
When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.
Wanna boost your dev productivity?
* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.
Wanna boost your dev productivity?
* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Off to work this morning for the first day after a break. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. Wish me luck!
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Off to work this morning for the first day after a break. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. Wish me luck!
Happy Friday! Let's have festive Friday-at-home #cocktails, shall we? Yes, let's. These are poinsettias. Cheers!
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Happy Friday! Let's have festive Friday-at-home #cocktails, shall we? Yes, let's. These are poinsettias. Cheers!
This is fascinating
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is fascinating
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
We didn't do Friday-at-home #cocktails yesterday, because reasons - but never fear! We can do Saturday-at-home just as well. So tonight we're having margaritas. Cheers!
December 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We didn't do Friday-at-home #cocktails yesterday, because reasons - but never fear! We can do Saturday-at-home just as well. So tonight we're having margaritas. Cheers!
Daylight Music is amazingly good. I really hope it can continue.
If you value independent, quirky, interesting, uncommercial music, supporting Daylight Music - and attending it! - is hugely worthwhile.
If you value independent, quirky, interesting, uncommercial music, supporting Daylight Music - and attending it! - is hugely worthwhile.
My live music series Daylight Music is in Crisis
At the end of November, I received what couldn’t be more devastating news. Our 3rd attempt at major arts funding was unsuccessful...
At the end of November, I received what couldn’t be more devastating news. Our 3rd attempt at major arts funding was unsuccessful...
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Daylight Music is amazingly good. I really hope it can continue.
If you value independent, quirky, interesting, uncommercial music, supporting Daylight Music - and attending it! - is hugely worthwhile.
If you value independent, quirky, interesting, uncommercial music, supporting Daylight Music - and attending it! - is hugely worthwhile.
Reading this, it becomes clear: everything that made this the best of the Indy films was added by Stoppard
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reading this, it becomes clear: everything that made this the best of the Indy films was added by Stoppard
Happy (Black) Friday! We're not out buying unnecessary things, no, we're in, eating and drinking unnecessary things. It's Friday-at-home #cocktails time! These are dry orange martinis. Cheers!
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Happy (Black) Friday! We're not out buying unnecessary things, no, we're in, eating and drinking unnecessary things. It's Friday-at-home #cocktails time! These are dry orange martinis. Cheers!