A cold and rainy day is happier as a Weasley. #paradeofforgottenhandknits
Month: July 2015
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How to improve your mood on a rainy day! @jpofoz @4colorcowboy
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Today’s Disney Knitting Fail: Why is Pooh throttling Piglet?!
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Shared today on Twitter
RT @Ben_Shute: Awesome read – > 6 Steps to #ContentMarketing Domination http://t.co/8MxK2xcvjv @JoePulizzi via @CMIContent http://t.co/HoaB…
Now I’m just waiting for @i386 to comment on my jeans tucked into brown boots…
@diversionary @i386 Good grief – they’re not COWBOY BOOTS! They’re biker boots. I’m a poser, but not an outdoorsy one. 🙂
@i386 I’ll bring in some pumpkin pie spice tomorrow and we can make our own!
RT @AnnaIsabella92: Editorial/ design friends in Sydney – want to work on the most exciting project of your career? http://t.co/Kjo2XhqWM6…
Any of my digital editor/writer/producer friends looking for a job? Canva is hiring! https://t.co/eHn0OZFZcN
RT @angelapriestley: There are 33 Australian female tech entrepreneurs on this list. In case @sydstart is still trying to find women http:/…
@200ok Thanks for the reminder! Just sponsored you. 🙂
@webdirections Yay! So now that we’re friends, how about that coffee? Hahaha… 🙂
RT @servantofchaos: Cmon @sydstart surely you can do better here! http://t.co/hmFRc5kB9w
Give your cat the gift of Donald Trump’s hair with #TrumpYourCat http://t.co/fP3HPqkvyB – Totally doing this tonight.
I’m absolutely loving Apple Music’s recommendations. Not pictured: “Inspired by Hüsker Dü” & “The B-52’s: Deep Cuts.” http://t.co/V6SVRVnaR8
@gusseting @davidchang Haha, I have no problem with most of what he says! He didn’t even mention GRATED CARROT.
RT @canva: Create Great Designs Webinar with @poppiepack – register here http://t.co/5KM23rYhAm http://t.co/deNjIYMDqm
@200ok Actually I just realised everyone is having a dry SydJS, so you’ll be in good company. 🙂 See you soon.
I’ve been inside and had coffee in the kitchen. Really, truly! https://t.co/Tiq1GGE2t1
Wow, where did all these people come from at #SydJS? Suddenly the room is PACKED!
@slace Ahhhh. I’m in the Canva Low-Carb Club this week, so I didn’t venture anywhere near the (delicious, delicious) pizza.
@slace IRON WILL.
@developerjack Are you at #sydjs? I’ve got Canva stickers…
@stephenlead I think you just invented the Geek Dad Joke.
@hal9zillion Oh good – you got in!
“This is bleeding edge stuff. The risk of using it is you may look like a hipster.” Ha! – @nkbtnk at #sydjs
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/m http://t.co/2OI35X7OQ5 Ha! Reminds me of some devs I know. #sydjs http://t.co/7IZxHxpR5q
More things should be taught using Missile Defense as an example! #sydjs
Now Asteroids! This is already the greatest tech talk I’ve ever heard. #sydjs http://t.co/2zkU1gD9zl
It’s Ender’s Game! Where’s the Little Doctor? #sydjs http://t.co/HLUk6CSXDB
RT @JedWatson: .@simon_swain smashing it at #sydjs tonight… Amazing talk, so well presented.
https://t.co/J6GAbcNczt Absolutely bloody brilliant, @simon_swain! #sydjs
Here’s that Frontend Developer job at @canva I mentioned at #SydJS! https://t.co/7SqjDju9Ix
“Yarn bombing” is in the damn OED now?! UGH. WHO DO I WRITE IN PROTEST? @KnitGuildNSW
RT @HarvardBiz: What to do when an employee quits and you didn’t see it coming http://t.co/WYa3PfvpvK http://t.co/HS95VaHZr8
Today’s Disney Knitting Fail: Why is Pooh throttling Piglet?! http://t.co/EVP9mgX0rB http://t.co/7CzKyAip3P
The spice must flow, @i386. We are GO for PSL. 🙂 @diversionary http://t.co/YbzZvRB3Ea
@i386 @diversionary I’m gonna try it in the almond milk latte. #famouslastwords
8 of The Best Red Lipsticks http://t.co/XWMkkxCeF4 – #7 is also T.Swift’s fave, and I feel inspired to wear it today. http://t.co/Y1MbUgyZm8
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Any digital editors/writers/producers looking for work? We’re hiring at Canva!
I’m absolutely loving Apple Music’s recommendations. Not pictured: “Inspired by Hüsker Dü” & “The B-52’s: Deep Cuts.”
Kristine Howard shared a link.
Today’s Disney Knitting Fail: Why is Pooh throttling Piglet?!
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Inflammatory, but true!
My Burger Manifesto | Lucky Peach – David Chang lays down his vision of the perfect burter. My favourite bit:
You know who fucks up burgers more than anyone else in the world? Australians. Australia has no idea what a burger is. They put a fried egg on their burger. They put canned beetroot on it, like a wedge of it. I am not joking you. This is how they eat their burger.
Ha! Sorry my Aussie countrymen, but he ain’t wrong.
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Algorithmic bias and glass cliffs and Sydstart and the Hoff and ARGHHHH I’M LOSING IT.
It’s been a frustrating week. On Monday I got an email from SydStart announcing that pre-release tickets for “the biggest startup conference in Australia” were about to go on sale. Excited, I scrolled down to see the speakers list and was greeted with a list of all men. “Wait, really?!” I thought. I’m not naive; I certainly didn’t expect equal representation. But I thought they’d at least put a token woman on the list. I went to the website and saw the same wall of dudes. Frustrated, I sent them a tweet:Hey @SydStart – if you want to actually include any women speakers in your event, I can recommend several (including ME)!
— Kris Howard (@web_goddess) July 13, 2015I got a reply not long after saying: “Hi. We’re looking forward to announcing more speakers soon! Stay tuned!” Kind of a non-answer, right? Does it mean they have some amazing women speakers yet to be announced, or they’re currently scrambling trying to find someone? I shared the screenshot and my complaint in the Girl Geeks FB group and was heartened to see I wasn’t the only one annoyed by this. Other people were tweeting to them as well. It got picked up by StartupSmart, who reported that the organisers claimed they had invited a couple women but they wanted speaking fees and there was no budget for it. But they’re totally asking some others! (So yeah. Scrambling.) Today Women’s Agenda posted a list of female founders they could have asked. I also discovered that someone has actually set up an All Male Panels Tumblr to catalogue stuff like this (complete with hilarious photos of the Hoff added).
Frustrating, right? Look, I know that there aren’t as many female startup founders at the “Global Influencer” level, and the few that are probably turn down 90% of their speaker invitations. Totally get that. (In fact, I work for one of them.) The solution is not to throw your hands up and say, “Welp, we tried!” when you can’t find a female Elon Musk for your event. There are so many other options!
And of course, this all happens alongside the Reddit shitshow, which I can’t even discuss without launching into a rant. Now it looks like Pao wasn’t even involved in firing Taylor, and their female lead engineer just quit, and maybe it was all a long con anyway? Regardless, the haters are cheering. I have no idea whether Pao was good at her job or not. It’s impossible to tell when 99% of the criticism thrown at her is sexist ranting. But hey, at least I learned what the term “glass cliff” means.
Oh! And add “algorithmic bias” to this week’s vocabulary lesson. Seems that Google shows prestigious job ads to men but not women. Sorry, Ellen. Finding the next role just got that much harder.
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Dug out the oversized lairy 80’s jumper today! #paradeofforgottenhandknits
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Shared today on Twitter
@OzGamer You’ve got a virus of some sort. You just Skyped me a very dodgy weightloss link!
@OzGamer Haha, I figured! 😛
Anybody going to http://t.co/l3Kwomy4az ? I’ll be presenting the wireframing workshop on Saturday morning! @GGDSydney @WWCSyd
RT @webdirections: Into Javascript and Robots? Nodebots day is coming up July 25th, with events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane http://t.…
Chef Song is making coq au vin for Bastille Day. The office smells SO GOOD.
Another hackathon coming up in Sydney! https://t.co/yiXnNTFh8w
Okay, what the heck is a “voider”? I even googled it. https://t.co/0LoXMorrqN
@Astarael Ahhh, that makes sense! Good thinking.
@Astarael Haha, just put two-and-two together and verified with @TheRealBnut that you are who I thought! 🙂
RT @sophiegllghr: That’s a great accompanying cartoon from the @nytimes https://t.co/bmjsc6X5jJ
Eavesdropping on @davidhearnden’s big moment! @canva http://t.co/Ounzbw369l
@webdirections The little “verified” and “friends” icons are linking to your Ooops page.
@webdirections I was so excited to see @GGDSydney listed as a friend and wanted to see where it linked. 🙂
RT @webdirections: We’ve just rebooted our listing of Aussie Web/Digital meetups and events http://t.co/P0sntl2qeu (add yours if it’s not t…
I only learned the term “glass cliff” yesterday, and I’ve already seen it like 10 times on the Internet today. 🙁 https://t.co/mKmob4hw1d
@drwitty_knitter @redambition I know. I tweeted it at them yesterday. Shared it around with the Girl Geeks on FB as well.
@johnallsopp @_kyliejane @mpesce That’s exactly it. Bane of my existence for the last two years!
@woollythinker @drwitty_knitter Yes, but also a raft of articles in the past 24 hours about how Ellen Pao was likely set up for failure.
RT @codepo8: The boring front-end developer http://t.co/84dvhV5omL – why not?
@developerjack Congrats and best of luck on the new gig!
RT @viveka: But srsly how is no Australian TV channel covering the #plutoflyby live? Hello @ABCaustralia? This is what broadcast is *for*.
Today’s Disney knitting fail is FAAAAABULOUS. http://t.co/NwkmHUPXZ0 http://t.co/Nzy0IG6TMM
RT @GoldyHA: Is it Uber’s technology that’s disruptive, or its ability to exploit giant loophole in employment laws and social safety net?
RT @bronwen: We did not pay speakers at #aboveallhuman and achieved 50% female speakers. Not good enough #Sydstart. http://t.co/69URhiI0Qe
Proud to be a speaker at http://t.co/l3Kwomy4az this weekend mentoring lots of women startup founders. See #sydstart? Not that hard.
@Fifikins Beautiful! And congratulations. 🙂
Dug out the oversized lairy 80’s jumper today! #paradeofforgottenhandknits http://t.co/k6KCxPJJ5J http://t.co/11Ynmk32e5
