Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
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Coder so old my #CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL".
I pay the bills with #technical_translation, mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch.
I've lived in #PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a #coffee farm working on land tending #robotics and - very eventually - harvest.
My wife is #Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Apr 03, 2026
@coreyspowell Weather satellite image of Caribbean and South American cloud formations about 8 PM Eastern last night. You can see the same clouds in the upper left of this shot. I find that so, so cool.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Apr 01, 2026
@dgold @johl Not the copy I have, which I got from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260331090815if_/https://pub-aea8527898604c1bbb12468b1581d95e.r2.dev/src.zip
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Apr 01, 2026
@johl Funny thing is, that code isn't copyrightable (in the United States, anyway), as it's been generated by Claude Code.
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Mar 12, 2026
@davidrevoy Well *that's* a good idea. Done. @wolfgang
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Jan 06, 2026
@buddha_tee @jk I lived there (and my wife and I married there) while I was working at IKOSS in Stuttgart-Vaihingen after college. I rented a room from the parents of a guy I'd met at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The world is complicated sometimes. So anyway, hi there, person who has heard of Bernhausen!
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Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
indieweb.social
Michael Roberts
@vivtek@indieweb.social
Coder so old my # CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL". I pay the bills with # technical_translation , mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch. I've lived in # PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a # coffee farm working on land tending # robotics and - very eventually - harvest. My wife is # Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.
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Jan 06, 2026
@jk Founded in 1896 in Filderstadt-Bernhausen and still managed by the fifth-generation descendants of the original founder from their new corporate headquarters, built in Esslingen in 1964.
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