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Month: February 2018

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @minxdragon @lindaliukas It’s towards the end IIRC… https://t.co/H2iqbS6z7Z

    Excellent thread that sums up my thoughts too. ⬇️ https://t.co/xGnhnsfE4x

    @pelagikat Nice one!

    RT @nic_hazell: “We don’t have to ‘lower the bar’ in order to be more diverse. Does anyone really believe white men are the only people goo…

    Working from the State Library is wonderful most days.And then there are the days when you’re seated near Phlegm Man.

    @chrisgander Sorry. If you’re hocking up a lung, you need to be in solitary confinement. Otherwise I will become Puke Woman. 🤢

    RT @threequal: @Google is hosting a whole heap of global Women Techmakers summits for International Women’s Day! The #Sydney one is happeni…

    I escaped Phlegm Man to a different table at the library. Now I am surrounded by Sleeping Students. 😴

    @annie_parker I’d love to talk D&I issues with you sometime, Annie! And also just be jealous of the amazing women Microsoft keeps hiring, like you, @jessfraz, @noopkat, and @caitie. 😊

    New Sydney meetup group for women CTOs, CIOs, and tech leaders! Started by the amazing @roisinparkes. A welcome addition to the local tech community… https://t.co/mQiX2nqOSC

    AWS are running a free webinar Thursday at lunchtime on Cloud9, their new “IDE in the cloud”. Register here if you’re interested! https://t.co/NxfOO6hlWE

    My first visit to the Cassandra Users Group! Thanks to @TankStreamLabs for hosting. https://t.co/Hcduev6lte

    Excited for tonight’s visiting speaker @rachelpedreschi from @gridgain talking about Apache Ignite! https://t.co/JV11KB4hdI

    For many folks, the hardest part of settting up Cassandra in data modelling. It’s a developer-focused database, not a DBA-focused database. @rachelpedreschi https://t.co/30kGz1jfqa

    Apache Ignite has flown under the radar to some extent, but it’s growing super fast. 2nd fastest ASF project to graduate after Spark; 3rd most active project. @rachelpedreschi @gridgain https://t.co/Ol4tCu4yj9

    @cckate @annie_parker We do often talk about related topics on the @GGDSydney Slack channel. Happy to invite you to it if you like!

    @glasnt Mine has actually played that in the past month, and not as a joke. 😂

    Ah, the sweet psychological manipulation of mentioning “You know, it’s pancake day” to your spouse in the afternoon. 🥞❤️ https://t.co/qhzCWJpVQV https://t.co/3zN6BkqGao

    @StokesXandra Yeah, the thrill of that one wears off after 10 years or so, I find. But surprise pancakes? Always good. 🙂

    @davidbanham Is that yours?! Someone told me about it recently and I didn’t realise you worked on it. Congrats!!

    @juniordev_io Whaaaat? How are you doing this?? Its amazing!!

    RT @madecomfytech: Excellent talk from the CSIRO at @yow_conf on how they use Lambda to process genome data at a huge scale. https://t.co/O…

    I’m sorry Australia; I have to move to the US now for I have found my dream house. It’s like 20min from where I went to high school, and it’s AMAZING, and I am 100% serious. https://t.co/fPUiA3p6ch https://t.co/dSQOCG6nJl

    My actual face while scrolling down that article. https://t.co/mUXFsdmK72

    @mjhilton_ It takes up, like, an entire block!

    @boyter Who was the eccentric dude in a wheelchair who commissioned this in the middle of nowhere, Michigan?! I mean, besides MY HERO and obviously a Bond villain.

    @lyynx Just have to see if my Dad will quit his job to become our full time handyman on the place. 😂

    @chrispytweets It’s real, and it’s spectacular.

    @kcollasarundell I feel like I’d have to make a lot of those 70’s style dishes involving Jello molds and MEAT.

    @lyynx Dammit. Now the price will start going up.

    RT @DarcyCarden: not a robot.

    😘 https://t.co/jQofpsvynt

    @Malarkey It’s a soup tureen that my friend @unlikelylibrary got me for Halloween one year. 🙂

    @Mandy_Kerr Well, obviously I’d have a team of robots to clean it, like the eccentric Bond villain that I’d be if I lived there. (Also, it has a central vacuum system!)

    @Malarkey @unlikelylibrary I have a surprising amount of pumpkin stuff. I led the charge for Halloween-in-Australia for about a decade there.

    Got a reply from Dad about helping fix it up: “Absolutely and you’ve already got a landscaper lined up as well!” (My stepmom’s a landscape designer.) I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER.

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    Ah, the sweet psychological manipulation of mentioning “You know, it’s pancake day” to your spouse in the afternoon. 🥞❤️

    Happy birthday, Sally!

    Goal today: convincing the Snook that we need to sell our house; move to Sturgis, Michigan; and live HERE. ❤️

    (I am 100% serious about this. I GASPED when I started scrolling. This is like the House on the Rock of Michiana. I love every single aspect of it.)

  • Ah, the sweet psychological manipulation of mentioning “You know, it’s pancake day” to your spouse in the afternoon. 🥞❤️

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    RT @Amys_Kapers: So it’s taken me a little longer to get this done than I would have liked (by about 2 months 😐), but I’ve finally finished…

    Weekly Meetup Wrap – February 11, 2018 – featuring four meetups with talks from @alexandereardon, @ajainvivek, @thejameskyle, @TomerGarzberg, @SimonAubury, and more! @reactsydney @preactaau @WWCSyd https://t.co/MdwvpwAmsf https://t.co/F05qBxl7B2

    Happy Galentine’s Day! #ovariesbeforebrovaries 😂❤️ @emd3737 @knitterjp @unlikelylibrary @randomknits @lucykbain @hannahyanfield @lynnlangit @LJKenward @MichelePlayfair @mobywhale @GRobilliard @conniecodes @Amys_Kapers @Mandy_Kerr @the_patima @rosepowell and so many more… https://t.co/ZbOARCBsur

    RT @minxdragon: One of the best articles I have read on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Augmentation. There is so much great conte…

    @minxdragon Love it. There was a great example in @lindaliukas’s talk from #yow17 about using a neutral network to generate possible pattern names for Marrimekko designs.

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    Four meetups this week! React Sydney, Sydney Data Science Breakfast, Big Data: Engineers and Scientists, and Women Who Code Sydney. 🙂

    Weekly Meetup Wrap – February 11, 2018

  • Weekly Meetup Wrap – February 11, 2018

    My attempts to scale back my number of meetups and tech events in 2018 is not exactly going to plan. Six weeks in, I’ve been to 14 different events… which, if I extrapolate, puts me at 120 for the year again. Eeek. But yeah, another four this week!

    The first was React Sydney, kicking off 2018 in the new event space at Domain. Organisers Jed and Jess have done a great job building this community over the years. A large crowd turned up to hear from four different speakers.

    The first speaker was Alex Reardon from Atlassian showing off some of the performance enhancements that have been made to react-beautiful-dnd (a library for making beautiful, accessible drag-and-drop lists with React.js). With really big lists (like, say, 500 items), dragging felt sluggish and janky. Alex showed off a few advanced techniques he and his team used to get it feeling snappy and natural. At it’s core, Alex said, optimisation is “about not doing things you don’t need to do.”

    The second talk was from Ajain Vivek from Yahoo7. Ajain’s fascinating talk was about rethinking how the state of your app stored in an object tree inside a single store can be transformed to memory model. He started off by talking about how human memory works, and how that could translate to a storage model for React. He finished with a demo that earned him applause from the audience.

    The third talk was from Lucas Chen, visiting from Brisbane. Lucas walked us through what’s new in React 16 (aka React Fiber). In a nutshell, there’s been a full rewrite but the API remains the same. Ultimately that means not much has changed in terms of your code, but it got faster! He also gave advice on how you can prepare for future changes.

    The final talk of the night was a last minute addition from another Atlassian speaker – Jamie Kyle. (Coincidentally, Jamie is responsible for at least part of my Twenty addiction because he kept tweeting photos at me of screenshots where he’d scored multiple 20’s. 😂)

    Jamie demoed his new tool Unstated.io (“Because it’s a JavaScript library I had to buy a .io domain. That was a really good use of $65…”), a tool for sharing state between React components. Simple, short, and useful!

    My second event for the week was the Sydney Data Science Breakfast meetup. The theme for this meetup was “AI will take our jobs and that’s ok,” and as you might expect it drew quite a crowd!

    The main speaker was Tomer Garzberg of Gronade, reprising his TED talk from this past December. Tomer began by describing factories in China that are entirely dark with no aircon or running water, and where workers labour 24-7. The catch is that all of the workers are robots. This scenario is becoming more and more common, and soon even white collar jobs will begin to be automated away.

    After his entertaining talk, Tomer joined three others for a panel discussion: Michael Allright from The Minerva Collective, Tim Garnsey from Verge Labs, and Peter Xing from KPMG. The audience peppered them with questions about the ethics of machine learning and AI, the economic impacts of replacing humans with robots, and how individuals and companies should cope with the coming disruption.

    My third event for the week was a brand new meetup: Big Data: Engineers and Scientists. Preact Recruitment are hosting these events and they’ve definitely gotten them off to a good start. It’s always nice to attend a meetup in the beautiful event space at Campaign Monitor!

    The first speaker was Simon Aubury from IAG talking about using Kafka to build streaming data pipelines. This was similar to the talk I heard Matt Howlett give a few weeks back, but Simon included lots of architecture examples that really helped everyone understand why Kafka is so useful. He also mentioned KSQL, which is still in developer preview but has a lot of folks very excited about its potential.

    The second talk of the night was a counterpoint to the first. Raul Beristain from Vocus Communications spoke about SQL on Hadoop using Impala, and what are the pros and cons of this approach. Sometimes the data you’re saving isn’t going to be updated later – like support call logs – so you don’t need a system that supports those transactions.

    The third and final talk was by Campaign Monitor’s own Binzi Cao. Binzo spoke at length about Spark SQL and using it to build a rules engine. He showed off some great examples where Spark SQL can make your life easier, like normalising timestamps from disparate data sources.

    My final event of the week was a hands-on Scala workshop hosted by Women Who Code Sydney at Quantium. I figured after my three-day intensive Haskell workshop, I should keep up my functional programming studies, right? 😜

    There were so many attendees we had to split over two different conference rooms! Marina was our facilitator and walked us through some exercises to build a CLI party planner application. Happily, I found that my experience in the Haskell workshop really helped conceptually with some of the things we did. Where I got hung up was on the particular Scala syntax, and my lack of knowledge around functions available in the core library. (That went for everyone, though.) I did manage to solve the last one entirely on my own, which resulted in a happy dance in my chair! 💃

    Of course, it didn’t help that Quantium’s offices are amazing. They opened the blinds in the conference room during lunch, and WHOA. It’s a good thing I don’t work in this office. I’d stare at that view every day.

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    @anthonypjshaw @DimensionData Ooh, cool! Have you got anybody who wants to give a talk at YOW! Data? We’re looking for speakers now! 😉 https://t.co/OgDDW2M0D3

    @anthonypjshaw @DimensionData @Pgray73 Excellent. Was trying to find a contact there to email to let you all know – then your tweet popped up. Perfect timing! 😀 (Happy to get a coffee anytime too if you want to hear more about this and other upcoming events.)

    RT @cjwerleman: Elon Musk is a total pig. I’ve often heard these things said about him, but you should be more outraged by the way he’s cel…

    @the_patima @AndyyHope I agree, but it’s not as easy at sounds. Melatonin is over the counter in the US, but prescription only in Australia. ☹️ (I buy as much as I can whenever I go back to the States.)

    @zoeydoesnttweet Very cute!

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    I see now why they pulled the blinds. THAT VIEW! 😍 Meetings in this conf room most be very difficult, @QuantiumAU. 🌞🌊⛵️ https://t.co/A8N8Q1iL0n

    @starbuxman @QuantiumAU LOL. It’s our work in progress from this: https://t.co/9b9DJ78u5d

    @starbuxman @QuantiumAU @scala_lang Haha, not my work! I’m one of the students 😛

    @DanSiepen Thanks Dan 🙂

    My favourite part of this shitshow is how my mentions have devolved into two dudes fighting over whether Meetup supports social groups. 🙃 https://t.co/Mg6KuZ0Pin

    BEHOLD MY INTENSE SCALA CONCENTRATION FACE. 😂 https://t.co/f96Gnm1dmQ

    Current mood: 😂. #whatthememe https://t.co/ctq6z9nnpF https://t.co/KXAYyq6WKo

    Low point of the evening: asking Siri if Lake Michigan is an ocean. 😂

    RT @thebreeders: Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) wrote an essay about The Breeders and life and age and change – “Music slices you in time.” htt…

    RT @vmbrasseur: Today’s @exercism_io newsletter is all about giving & receiving feedback. It’s a must-read: https://t.co/9QlrVy4jOj

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    This was a nice thing. Thanks to whoever nominated me. Really honoured to be amongst such inspiring folks! 😍

    RON HOWARD SQUARED!

    Happy birthday to my Dad, the Ron on the right. (As I said to the Snook: “Did my sister Amy Carbo and Daniel Carbo top our birthday gift? [Ron Howard voice:] They did.”)

    Current mood: 😂. #whatthememe

  • Current mood: 😂. #whatthememe