Month: November 2016
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Feeling the excitement as @claudiablb kicks off today’s #SheStarts mentoring session at @BlueChilliGroup. https://t.co/hn6VRafpCc
“Bitches get stuff done.” Like @claudiablb, I had this as my iPhone wallpaper. #SheStarts https://t.co/N0tY7YfOGU
Three types of mentors: tactical (day-to-day honing of craft); strategy (med. term); vision (navigating industry) – @claudiablb #SheStarts
Don’t call your startup a baby. That makes it very hard for mentors to tell you your baby is ugly or doesn’t work. 😂 @claudiablb #SheStarts
As a mentor, always start with YES… AND. Like improv! (@taradefrancisco would no doubt agree.) #SheStarts
Oh good grief. @claudiablb has made us all cry 30min into the session. 😪 #SheStarts
@teknetia Maybe it’s because most male programmers and marketers think “assistants” are female. Like being helpful is gendered. 😕
@evanderkoogh @simonraikallen https://t.co/mFih6w1NVJ
RT @yow_oz: Need an Introduction to Clojure? @stuartsierra’s upcoming #yow16 workshop is the one for you https://t.co/hNo0rb1s3H
Telstra’s new infosec cops will police all dev code. Embedding security into the teams? Step in the right direction! https://t.co/VytVx1hFB8
@FarshadNayeri Love it!
RT @doctorow: Punks knit well
https://t.co/A7D2O06Gub https://t.co/mnBubpVlXU
I’m trying this out right now @tjbyte. Pretty much just an empty shop front with a big table in it. Ping pong next door. Hmmm. 🤔 https://t.co/HglNeW0Q1n
@tjbyte If that’s your criteria, I reckon the State Library or Broadway Food Court are just as good!
@tjbyte I’ve been visiting a fair few of them here. So far @WOTSOWorkSpace has been my favourite in terms of value!
@tjbyte Also worth checking out @twospace_club. I’ve still got that one on my To Do list!
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Huh. I like it. I’ll have to look up what the Morton salt connection is though…
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@unixbigot @yow_oz LOL. I knew you were secretly a Hermione.
@unixbigot I’ll be there too!
@yarrcat I’m the same – I have crappy veins. The last time the Red Cross lady said, “you officially don’t have to try anymore.”
@yarrcat I was both relieved and sad that she let me off the hook.
@johnallsopp Happy birthday! Were we going to catch up this week? I’ll buy you a birthday coffee. 😀
Now is Not the Time to Criticize the Galaxy Note 7 – HA. I laugh so I do not cry. https://t.co/qybDyr5nag
@AbstractCode @yow_oz Me! Well, I’m speaking too. 😀
@AbstractCode @yow_oz Haha, my talks tend to get shunted to the “weird but amusing” slot at the end of the day. 😀
@mobywhale @GGDSydney Have fun! I’m sorry I’m going to miss it. 🙁
@mattallen It’s like witchcraft. You now know my true name.
Tonight’s meetup: #sydneyai at the gorgeous @BCGDV offices. Thanks @TeremTech for organising! https://t.co/IRQIj29skM
Ian Heddle from Zomojo starts his talk on computational complexity by going all the way to the ancient Greeks. #sydneyai https://t.co/Q1lLWxkpca
Organisers of meetups: please publicise a hashtag for your events! I’m just makin’ this stuff up and it’s disappearing into the void.
WOW. Zomojo’s homegrown genetic algorithm machine. @nemshilov will be jealous. #sydneyai https://t.co/5pqilpNgsx
Ian’s advice for getting into machine learning: STEP 1. LEARN PYTHON. #sydneyai
Final tip: make sure you have a way to halt your machine learning algorithms. Otherwise you’ll be up for a very big AWS bill. 😂 #sydneyai
Another day, another @alexboudreau chatbot talk. 😂 #sydneyai https://t.co/mM2gw7x6gi
Poor @alexboudreau just had to say “Parsey McParseface” in a tech talk with a straight face. Ugh. The worst, @googledevs. #sydneyai
Thankfully @alexboudreau says current state of AI is still really far from Westworld territory. #sydneyai https://t.co/XX6g7VO9HE
Intuition is the reason that human GPs won’t be replaced by chatbots. @alexboudreau #sydneyai
Bold prediction from an audience member that Esperanto will reemerge as the language of chatbot interaction in the future. 🤔 #sydneyai
@walkingadvert Awwww! Waves at @SerriLaw @lucykbain & Ellen!!
@FrankCharlton Do you know about @RHoKSydney? Talk to @AlexGilleran. 🙂
@FrankCharlton Except duh, you’re not in Sydney. But RHoK is international!
@FrankCharlton Maybe you should start one. My friend @lemon_lime is in Seattle – he might help.
@lemon_lime I just saw this, and it took me five seconds, and then I LOLed. 😂
RT @robertnyman: Really enjoying the moment, standing in the middle of a lot of great Philippine web developers!
Pic by @cellofoodiegeek a…
Small thrill seeing @baconmeteor’s talk from @webdirections linked on good ol’ @metafilter. https://t.co/uV8UfKHSHE
Still life entitled “We Need a Real Vase” https://t.co/lakr8SeY5b https://t.co/IGSe2W979F
RT @NASAhistory: #Congratulations to Margaret Hamilton. Will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow for writing Apollo…
@MichelePlayfair Heh. My real birthday is in March. That was the JOINT birthday. 😂
@stephenlead HORROR. (Why are you sending it to me? Don’t blame me for this!)
@stephenlead It’s a fair cop.
@mattallen @stephenlead They had those at Canva once. Along with the Toffee Apple. They’re both terrible.
A friend back in Indiana asked me to recommend toys/games to intro his 6yo & 3yo girls to coding. 😍 Maybe the world isn’t 100% horrible.
@TheRealBnut Goldiblox, Scratch, and the Hour of Code website.
@quamen Goldiblox, Scratch, and the Hour of Code website
@sebastianparis I saw that too! Can’t remember what it was called…
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Still life entitled “We Need a Real Vase”
@Amy Carbo @Anthony Howard I loved this. So many memories!
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TIL that the new Broadway food court has free wifi, power points, and Korean burritos. I think I just found my coworking space.
@desplesda Yes! Glad you’re coming. And hey, I’m going to linux.conf in Jan in Hobart. Are you going to be there?
@gilmae I’ve got a 16yo with me for work experience. Frankly the distraction was welcome. 😀
@tjbyte That’s at Central Park, right? I was actually at Broadway Shopping Center.
@gilmae It’s my nephew, so it’s more “work experience in the easiest way possible”. 🙂
@gilmae I’m basically using him as Mechanical Turk right now.
@tjbyte Is there a website for it? I can’t find it online. I’d be interested in trialing it…
Wait, you’ve got @lynnecazaly speaking?! So jealous I can’t make it! Melbourne folks – this will be a good night. @JeffreyTheobald https://t.co/OuKEEL6ZBp
William from @industrieit kicking off tonight’s #sydneyscrum meetup! https://t.co/iOOjasTGYj
@tjbyte Ooh. I might head over tomorrow then!
Learning about the concept of Open Space and how tonight’s 90min session will work. Goal = deeper Scrum. #sydneyscrum https://t.co/fLj4XS8E0m
Ling leading her #sydneyscrum session on retrospectives. https://t.co/CculGDnbYO
Stu urging us all to take Scrum farther and scale the wall with DevOps. #sydneyscrum https://t.co/dH8F7sT7e0
@geekle Unfortubately I’ll be in Melbourne speaking at @yow_oz. Sorry to miss it!
@twelveeyes It’s pretty much the only way I like kale.
Lots of energy in the room as @nic_hazell kicks off #SheStarts boot camp at @BlueChilliGroup! @SheStartsAU https://t.co/aeoXAU6fj9
“When we think of tech startups, we think of blokes in hoodies playing ping pong!” *cue laughter* #SheStarts @SheStartsAU
The # of applicants for #SheStarts was 2x that of any other program @BlueChilliGroup has run, and it was only open to half the population.
Lots of applause as @BlueChilliGroup’s @sebeckmas tells us how #SheStarts came to be. https://t.co/CCjWIJEhxX
I absolutely love that there is an adorable baby in a pram here. Moms can be founders too! #SheStarts
Hehe. Found myself in the middle of a @MelanieCanva Fan Club this morning at #SheStarts!
RT @jonathanweisman: Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead over Trump stands at 1,720,053 and still climbing. A strange history is being made…
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Eileen wants a plate. https://t.co/2T8Spu4VPS https://t.co/W7KGigDKF3
Weekly Meetup Wrap – This week I hosted two @yow_oz Nights and got to see Microsoft CEO @satyanadella keynote! https://t.co/sWz4lgEjbI
Just chatted w/ @ghohpe about upcoming @yow_oz workshop. If you’re an aspiring software architect you should attend! https://t.co/i7xW9P1tJF
This is so cooooooool! Way to go, @Charlie__Gerard. https://t.co/YN58o5zVfb
@jdub @jessfraz There’s also a Girl Geek Sydney Christmas meetup on Tuesday! https://t.co/pspvbXsqkj
Twelve years ago today! Blog post: “Just married…” https://t.co/piqajCOL5n
RT @sydkubernetes: Happy to announce @yow_oz as a sponsor for Xmas #BeeropsMegaMixer. FREE tickets still from https://t.co/oYLFgDvh5v @web_…
RT @boyter: It’s out, searchcode server 1.3.4 with many bug fixes get your community edition here https://t.co/D1m1LDV8pv
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Eileen wants a plate.
This week I hosted YOW Nights in Melbourne and Sydney, and I got to see Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella give a keynote!
Twelve years ago today! Happy anniversary to the Snook… (And how great is it that seven of those commenters from way back then were able to celebrate with us in person yesterday?!)
Hey Sydney engineers – YOW are sponsoring the Christmas “MeetupMadness” mixer for about ten Sydney devops usergroups. It’s on Dec 8 at the King St Brewhouse, and the first 500 tickets are FREE!
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Weekly Meetup Wrap
The YOW! 2016 Conference is sold out in Melbourne, but you can still get tickets for Sydney and Brisbane. There are also DepthFirst workshops in Sydney and Melbourne.
Three meetups this week, including another trip to Melbourne!
On Tuesday I flew to Melbourne to host YOW Night in the amazing event space at Zendesk. Our speaker was Lindsay Holmwood of the DTA, the Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency. More than 70 attendees gathered to hear Lindsay talk about the problems the government faces in digital service delivery, and how the DTA has tackled those.
Lindsay stunned us all with the statistic that the government has over 2200 web domains… that they know of. He challenged us to consider the difficulty in creating a consistent customer experience across those sites, keeping them patched and secure, and monitoring them for disruptions. He also told us about the vision for GOV.AU – an “alpha” responsive prototype that shows how “joined-up” government services could look and work for users.
Lindsay also debunked the myth that organisations need to choose between speed and reliability. The 2016 State of Devops Report actually proves that successful companies (as measured by actual stock market performance) actually release more frequently with fewer failures and shorter recovery times.
Lindsay also pointed us to the DTA’s Digital Service Standard, which includes thirteen simple criteria that every government (and private enterprise) can use to assess projects. He also walked us through the Service Design and Delivery Process and explained how you can “create a longer runway by pulling the tech forward.” Rather than thinking of doing more tech and less design, think of it as turning up the volume of tech earlier in the process.
On Wednesday Lindsay headed to the Brisbane YOW Night, hosted by YOW’s Craig Smith.
Back in Sydney, I attended the Microsoft Developer Event at The Star along with several hundred other developers and tech leaders. The big draw was, of course, the chance to see CEO Satya Nadella onstage, and he did not disappoint. You can watch his 40 minute keynote online here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9QAbNzm_s
Nadella spoke of Microsoft’s mission to “empower every person on the planet to achieve more,” and how creating tools for developers is still at the heart of the company. Every business nowadays, he said, is a digital business.
Azure was a big topic for the day, including Cortana cognitive services, Blockchain as a service (there was a nice little spotlight on Australia’s Webjet), the new serverless compute service “Functions,” and a new Azure Bots service.
Nadella also earned a chuckle from the local crowd when announcing a new partnership with Cricket Australia to analyse player performance. “It’s perhaps not the best day to talk about Australian cricket…” he said.
Another highlight of Nadella’s talk was a video showcasing the new Microsoft Surface Studio. The crowd erupted in applause afterwards!
The rest of the event was more hands-on developer focused, and I can’t even begin to go into all the detail. There were sessions on using cognitive services to build chatbots…
…Microsoft’s relationship with Open Source (less than a day later it was announced that they’re now a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation!)…
…building apps with Xamarin for Visual Studio (which now has a native iOS emulator so Windows users don’t have to switch machines for testing!)…
…and a crash course on devops with Azure.
I was also really pleased to see local developers Wayne Schwebel and Rossano Gallardo recognised for their great work on the 9News Alerts app (Android | iOS).
On Thursday it was time for the third YOW Night of the week, this time in Sydney at Canva‘s offices in Surry Hills. Once again Lindsay Holmwood delivered his excellent talk about the DTA and what they’ve learned about digital service delivery. It was especially interesting (for me) seeing the same talk on different nights. I could tell where Lindsay made changes – in some cases because people who worked on the projects he was discussing were actually in the audience! – and also how he responded to the different energy of the crowds. (Melbourne laughed more than Sydney, I noticed.)
Thank you again to Lindsay for kindly spending most of his week travelling Australia and giving this talk. The audience across all three sites absolutely loved it, and everyone came away inspired to apply some of the DTA’s lessons in their own organisations.
If you haven’t been to a YOW Night before, you should sign up for the YOW mailing list (form in site footer) to hear when the next one is happening!
