web-goddess

Month: August 2016

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @wordcampsyd: Speaker: Kris Howard – My Website is Old Enough to Vote – The Challenges of Maintaining a 20-year-old Website https://t.co…

    That’s so great! 😊 Well done, @DannielleG99 – and your Mum!! #TEDxMelbourne https://t.co/3lteA2aMKh

    @pwcc @johnallsopp So what happens when I hit the 40’s (next year!!) ? Is that when I become a wizard? 🙂

    RT @NodeGirlsSydney: REGISTRATION IS OPEN for next coding bootcamp for women @coderfactory Sydney. Register here: https://t.co/ytudKHSBTt h…

    @hannahyanfield Haha, I’ve got the @nomnompaleo iPad app and cook from it all the time!

    RT @elaconf: Read about @web_goddess’s path to public speaking🎙 and finding a mentor 🌟 https://t.co/TTLar5JXbE

    @elaconf Thanks for sharing! Wow, I wish I could be at your conference. It looks amazing. 🙂

    @lucykbain @elaconf @techspeakdigest Now I want to put one on here. Waiting for Lucy to enable in 3….2….1….

    @lucykbain @mobywhale I did it! Private FB group. Invited you both. 😀

    @FrankCharlton Just wanted to thank you for the awesome tweets. I’m sharing with my testing team right now!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Tuesday. Engaging beast mode… #canvaiphone https://t.co/yTLgTPvBvZ https://t.co/sYghJLaO0R

    @TheRealBnut Haha, nah. Trying to find the root cause of a non-iOS bug…

    RT @YouAreDogNow: .@jtimberlake You Are Dog Now https://t.co/KYg3mOnjuV

    @Malarkey @guardian And based on your referral, I just downloaded it. I’m a fan so far.

    Full house at Girl Geeks! (at @Atlassian in Sydney, NSW) https://t.co/6KSMAYXhdm https://t.co/X6bedkVMvU

    Listening to @azadehkhojandi teach us about @unclebobmartin’s SOLID principles. Relevant to my interests. #GGDSyd https://t.co/OzlFnbYXIq

    “I’d wish you luck, but luck is for the ill-prepared.” Wisdom from Amanda Elliott at #GGDSyd https://t.co/EoKLDeuah2

    In awe of @lucykbain’s badassery – intentionally blank slides. #ggdsyd https://t.co/L95Uwgok7u

    Suddenly thinking about starting a semi-regular meetup group for women working on tech talks in Syd. (Credit to @lucykbain’s #GGDSyd talk!)

    Made @nomnompaleo’s Slow Cooker Korean Short Ribs today. YUM! https://t.co/Ec3omP3J41 https://t.co/9JoJvHVxxU

    @kouky @TheRealBnut Bleurgh. I’ve tried like 5 times tonight and I’m officially giving up. We’ve got weeks to do it.

    Awwww, I got mentioned in this week’s Technically Speaking newsletter! Thanks @catehstn and @chiuki 🙂 https://t.co/H7TszkBRBb

    Average Manager vs. Great Manager — Medium https://t.co/hXNR2Ai2ff – Excellent. We all deserve great managers! https://t.co/zwn2d4C2uH

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Tuesday. Engaging beast mode… #canvaiphone

    Full house at Girl Geeks!

    Made @nomnompaleo’s Slow Cooker Korean Short Ribs today. YUM!

  • Made @nomnompaleo’s Slow Cooker Korean Short Ribs today. YUM!

  • Tuesday. Engaging beast mode… #canvaiphone

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @netmag: We’re proud to announce @canva’s @themaninblue has joined the #generateconf Sydney line-up! https://t.co/hNkHJLTtJh https://t.c…

    RT @yow_oz: Listen to an inspirational story at our next #yownight is with @DarylWMcB on Flying Robot School – 11 Aug in Sydney https://t.c…

    He actually managed to convince me! https://t.co/9VyOAs0rW2

    I just got a push notification from a wine app (@delectable) I haven’t used in months at 8:30 in the morning. Ugh. Delete.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @TVsCarlKinsella: FOUNDER OF HOGWARTS: okay, so we all know there are four types of kid. brave, smart, evil and miscellaneous.
    SCHOOL BO…

    @mpesce Yeah, new UI is slightly weirding me out.

    So, I had kind of a big week last week. (Understatement.) Blog post: https://t.co/ffJC6ZynOZ

    @pyko Thanks! Just for a short bit. Got WordCamp talk to prep for next month. 😂

    @deejaygraham I hope it amused you! 🙂

    RT @simonraikallen: “I felt Imposter Syndrome starting to creep in. I knitted to stay calm” – You are a legend Kris I love it. https://t.c…

    @simonraikallen There was a 14yo girl who skied to the South Pole! And I was talking about KNITTING. 😂

  • Shared today on Facebook

    I didn’t want to forget everything that happened in the lead up to this fabulous past week, so I blogged it. Thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes and helped out, especially Amy, Eileen, Jody, Daphne Chong, Stephen, Fiona, Hannah, and of course, the Snook.

    That was a big week.

  • That was a big week.

    So, I had kind of a big week last week. Understatement.

    It all started a couple weeks ago. On July 13, I got a tweet from a guy named Jon Yeo saying how much he liked my Ignite talk from last year. I told the Snook excitedly, “Ooh, he’s the organiser for TEDx Melbourne!”

    Jon Yeo tweet

    I replied thanking him, and pointing him to the updated version I did at SydJS in April. He said, “If you are ever in Melbourne, we would love to do a version of it for our event.” Pretty nice! I told him I’d let him know.

    Buoyed with confidence, I decided to take a step I’d been thinking about for a long time. I emailed someone in the local tech industry that I admire, asking if she’d be willing to discuss possibly mentoring me. She wrote back and said yes! We scheduled our first catch-up for the morning of August 2.

    Then on July 19th, TEDx Jon sent me a DM saying “Would you consider doing a 5min version for TEDxMelbourne on Aug 3?” I just about fell over. He asked me to send him my phone number, and he rang me a few minutes later. We had a very quick chat, but the gist of it was that yes, he really was serious and wanted to fly me to Melbourne in two weeks to deliver my 5 minute talk at TEDx. On his side he had to scramble to fit me into the program, and on my side I had to book plane tickets, update my talk again, and start rehearsing.

    While that was happening, my friend Daphne mentioned that she thought my talk would fit in well at PubConf, an upcoming night of lightning talks that was part of NDC Sydney.  (Daphne was giving a conference talk at NDC.) She emailed the organiser Todd Gardner and introduced the two of us. On July 20, Todd wrote back to excitedly offer me a spot on the PubConf lineup on August 5th. So suddenly I was giving two talks in one week!

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  • Shared today on Twitter

    Pretty cool to announce to a room of 120+ schoolgirls that you work at @canva and they all go “Ooooooooh!” #girlsprogrammingnetwork

    Questions I’ve been asked: “How do I do NOT EQUALS in Python?” (I knew that one.) “Do you know how to dab?” (No.) #girlsprogrammingnetwork

    @joshuapaling I believe it’s some sort of dance the youths are doing.

    TIL you can’t start a variable name in Python with a number. Huh.

    @gilmae All my variables start with $ 😬

    Sausage, chard, and cauliflower hash with poached egg. Perfection! https://t.co/EVjbQhk9yg https://t.co/R8XvNrngcF

    @evanderkoogh Indeed.

    @MelissaKaulfuss Sorry to hear it. You’ve come so far! We’re all pulling for you. You can do this.

    RT @smiffy: In case you haven’t seen it, the #IndigenousDads thread is – well, I’ve got something in my eye. Very moving.

    @slace You’re a social butterfly, you are! 🙂