Luke Roberts

Software engineer @Microsoft working on Search / specialises in #webA11y / #punk 🤘 / cat dad 🐈 / Brit in Norway 🇳🇴

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Glad we bought our house when we did, house prices in Tromsø have already risen by 8.1% this year alone 😳

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

When someone says the three words I've been longing to hear...

...It's lactose free

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

@sverrejoh Flexing the travel budgets? 😜

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Why does the Logi Options+ app have a built-in AI prompt builder, maybe this is useful, but feels very strange? 🤔

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Had to get a new keyboard + mouse after my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard failed me and MS stopped producing them

Got the Logitech Ergo K860 and MX vertical and super happy with it!

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And it continues for months just like this

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

I wish photobucket would just deactivate/delete my account already and stop telling me about it.

What is this, like seriously

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@seaotta I used to think the app was pretty good (and it is..ish), but then I came back to the UK and had to use it with the broken train system 😂

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

@richbishop The font tag 😂

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

@engineering_bae Mostly terrible but the absolute best since being at Microsoft, amazing humans

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

I wish more articles provided some comprehendible Tl;DR's or a "Here's what you'll get out of this".

if anything it helps set the framing better

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

I have a Naprapath session today and alongside a knee injury i need to tell them that i have fucked my neck up... by sleeping

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Trying out focus tools in Windows and the Pomodoro timer.

I start the timer, what I'm listening to stops playing and instead it starts randomly playing this 😂...

I'm not going to break anything, I promise

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Working through a coaching course and seeing a question to reflect:

"What distracts you?"

Everything distracts me, my own thoughts about the thing that is being said right now is distracting me. The myriad of other nonsense swirling around in here, take your pick. 😅

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Our bougie ass cat, who has for a few years now, almost exclusively, only drinks water when it is in a human glass 😅.

We thought it would be cute once... she now expects it and judges you accordingly if it's not there or full enough.

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

PSA, you don't need to set your OOF message for the weekend 😅

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

I see some people grow online then that presence turning into clickbaity/AI generated tweets/posts for engagement, almost like they HAVE to post something a few times a day, just feels like something is wrong there.

Nothing new, but just makes the content seem disingenuous.

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@'ing everyone in a chat with something that is "urgent" then disappearing shortly after, is not how you get people to help you 😂

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

I can only imagine that if I was responsible for IC's individually, how my team is performing, ensuring partnerships with other teams etc, then coding on top, I'd very quickly run out of energy.

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

Started an Aspiring Managers program at Microsoft, aiming to give insights and prepare those who are thinking about moving to an EM role.

One thing I consistently hear is that EM's who try to code quickly find out they can't do both.

[Luke Roberts @L337LUKE]

For me this makes a lot of sense, by all means be involved in discussions, contribute at a high level where you can but it never seemed like that scaled well and I feel is responsible for people getting burnt out.