Month: March 2018

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @raena @kattekrab @vmbrasseur @BonnieWildie @glasnt @wiredferret @emmajanehw Hm. As a person with hips, I’ve had it recommended that I sew down pockets that gape open if I don’t like how it looks. Never had fake ones though!


    Made it to Singapore. My futuristic hotel bathroom lighting gives me ◾️👁. https://t.co/511AtzBVRY https://t.co/2ZmwMRz8e2


    My 4 days in India were beautiful and healthy… but now I’m eating beef, drinking beer, and listening to a dance remix of “High School Musical.” (I ❤️ Singapore.) https://t.co/69SbnYtdCF https://t.co/ShYF8tsv57


    @AshKyd @campjs I’d definitely submit a talk – if I hadn’t already! 😜


    @AshKyd @campjs You can thank @DeveloperSteve. He nagged me until I submitted just to get him to shut up about it. 😂


  • Shared today on Facebook

    Made it to Singapore. My futuristic hotel bathroom lighting gives me ◾️👁.


    My 4 days in India were beautiful and healthy… but now I’m eating beef, drinking beer, and listening to a dance remix of “High School Musical.” (I ❤️ Singapore.)


  • Shared today on Twitter

    Glad to see @canva made it in there. 😂 @themaninblue @crankymate https://t.co/nmcQNwjeMy


    @deejaygraham No! Thanks – that’s amazing. If/when I ever give my talk again, I’ll have to work that in. 😁


    Speaking at #AgileIndia2018 in 90min, and I just STACKED IT, flat on on my face, when trying to find a seat for the keynote. 😂 Many thanks to the 150 polite Indian folks who didn’t laugh!


    This is going to be my go-to definition of DevOps going forward. @ghohpe #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/TiO9Qb8IZC


    I’m fine, btw. Floor was carpeted so only my pride was hurt. Just glad I had opted for seat towards the back rather than the front! 😂


    How to know if your test coverage is sufficient: would you let @ghohpe change 10 lines of your code at random, knowing if the build stays green it’ll go to prod? 😳 #AgileIndia2018


    How traditional corporate dev and ops folks view each other. 😂😂 #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/97XwrjC0Zr


    @tdpauw I was about to say it feels like promotion for my talk on long running software. He’s preempting all of our talks! 😂


    But on the upside, I wore my @yow_conf shirt so everybody knows who I work for, @melissa_loh 😂👍


    @minxdragon ❤️❤️👏


    How to entice developers to work at your company, even if you’re not Google or a tech unicorn. (Note to all the dudes who ask me how to find women techies: DO ALL OF THIS!) #agileindia2018 https://t.co/lTEqm0IAV4


    RT @allPowerde: @web_goddess @yow_conf @melissa_loh Call for presentation is open until 18 March https://t.co/ut5nHykAVm 😉


    ALL. OF. THIS. 👇 https://t.co/2apqOkYC1a


    And now a quick rundown of this last day of talks at #AgileIndia2018 from @nashjain ! https://t.co/QjHyHCik5k


    Quick selfie before my talk! #agileindia2018 https://t.co/VONC0UVFK8 https://t.co/SYuYeFJMaO


    How to get an audience to like you: bribe them with stickers! #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/1GwyMbvxdw


    Listening to my new friend Nikhil from @Snapchat talk about chaos engineering. It’s like building up your tolerance for allergens by injecting the thing that bothers you. #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/DFIVulIO4a


    There are now a lot of Indian Agile experts with @SydTechLeaders stickers on their laptops. 😂 @darthted @owensenior


    Running your chaos experiments on pre-prod or staging doesn’t replace running them on prod; it only supplements it. #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/8ly95NNwIZ


    RT @jewelbots: Happy #iwd2018 to @likeOMGitsFEDAY, @web_goddess, @SwimmeratOAC, @debraleedavis, Sumi, Ellie, and the rest of our amazing co…


    Game Day: a simulated, collaborative drill across a company to test what happens during service failure. We did this at Nine Digital a few years back, and the @9NowAU team did very well IIRC! #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/Djr7JoESrJ


    Happy to report that my #AgileIndia2018 talk went SO WELL! One attendee said: “My big takeaway is that I should be doing property-based testing.” I did @daveathomas and @jessitron proud. 😁


    Ready for @jystewart’s talk on securing “the cloud.” (Love the scare quotes!) 🔐☁️ #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/AwsSOYYOTO


    Slides from my #agileindia2018 talk “Building Software That Lasts” are now online! https://t.co/omgGyq0hNt


    Security is about gaining trust through demonstrating competence. Every breach erodes that trust. Customers have more and more options, and they will leave (even for govt sites). #AgileIndia2018 @jystewart https://t.co/OLM879TnR9


    Hey, there’s my friend and @yow_conf speaker @lady_nerd! 👏 #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/w3wf3gFBU1


    Why do people fear cloud security more than other practices (like old unpatched Windows PCs)? Because human beings have a bias to fear change, and the cloud is new. #AgileIndia2018 @jystewart https://t.co/ZDjmGGvM88


    Watching @jystewart battle through a failing laptop battery and then a power outage! So calm. Such a pro. #speakerinspiration #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/ZT4ty6anCN


    @lady_nerd PS I ❤️ your (new?) avatar. You look like a Boss.


    I have to give @tdpauw props for his excellent talk title: “Feature Branching is Evil.” 👏😈 #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/wQxrnwKPeC


    When working with a team in early 2000s who had never used version control, @tdpauw introduced Subversion and trunk-based development, coupled with CI and unit testing. Easier learning curve than going straight to DVCS, feature branches, and pull requests. #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/v7E1SdsNit


    Feature branching hides work from the rest of the team. You’re all working blind. Frequently merging back to master is communicating with your team. #AgileIndia2018 @tdpauw


    There’s @davefarley77 again! I suppose hardly unexpected on a day devoted to continuous delivery and DevOps. 😁 #AgileIndia2018 @tdpauw https://t.co/ab8vqJjS03


    Teams use long running feature branches to allow them to work in isolation… but that’s optimising for the individual, not the team. Complexity of merging branches will affect your company’s lead time. #AgileIndia2018 @tdpauw https://t.co/mEe49U7vSB


    Feature toggles! Done badly they are evil too. You can end up with lots and lots. Yep. Seen that. (I *knew* @tdpauw would mention these…) #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/rcIcbwD2PH


    Long running feature branches are a symptom. The evil is devs not knowing how to develop in small increments, too coupled code bases, and missing tests. YES. #AgileIndia2018 @tdpauw https://t.co/Y0naPApfPx


    @starbuxman @ghohpe Speaker dinner or other? I’m going back to my hotel to change and drop off computer.


    Full body deep tissue massage in hotel spa to celebrate a successful presentation? OHHHHYEAHHHH. #treatyoself https://t.co/cY2bwiWmLJ https://t.co/LraaqelguS


    @ghohpe @starbuxman Ok. Will meet you back at Taj!


    @nashjain Heading back to Taj. Don’t leave without me!


  • Shared today on Facebook

    Speaking at #AgileIndia2018 in 90min, and I just STACKED IT, flat on on my face, when trying to find a seat for the keynote. 😂 Many thanks to the 150 polite Indian folks who didn’t laugh! (I’m fine. It was carpeted.)


    Quick selfie before my talk! #agileindia2018


    Full body deep tissue massage in hotel spa to celebrate a successful presentation? OHHHHYEAHHHH. #treatyoself


    In which I ride in a tuk tuk for the first time ever, and discover the other speaker I’ve been hanging out with lives in Chicago. 😂


  • Shared today on Twitter

    Stumbled bleary-eyed to the hotel cafe for breakfast to be greeted with “Happy International Women’s Day, ma’am!” 🌷❤️ https://t.co/ciTwVPfDBK https://t.co/eFqm7SDDW0


    @AziFarjad @soganmageshwar @yow_conf @PaulCutsinger @kris Hi Azi! I’ll meet you at the Alexa Meetup in Sydney soon. (I’ve been talking to James Ang about opportunities to collaborate.) Will chat then!!


    @NickDeverell Grosssssss


    The @yow_conf Twitter account is sharing lots of tech talks by women from our archives today. If you need a speaker for an event, these women all come highly recommended! (Nice job, @melissa_loh. 👏) #IWD2018 https://t.co/KOFiP20g7v


    @minxdragon @evernote Is he doing the Tree Pose?!


    @minxdragon @evernote #appropriate 😂


    If you’re wondering where my #agileindia2018 tweets are today, it’s because I made mistake of sending @daveathomas my talk slides last night and then spent all day incorporating his feedback. 😂


    When I’m Queen of the World, my first act will be to end the systematic oppression of women and PoC. My second will be to ban all hotel hairdryers where you have to hold down the button to operate. 😐


    @starbuxman You going to be at dinner? I’ve finally made it over today. 😂


    Nils Kappeyne from @Shell_NatGas starting his talk with his fascinating family story. Progress is great, but it’s also fragile. #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/rGZsfBTEBn


    Shell’s a very big company. Bigger than Starbucks, bigger than McDonalds. 30 Million customers. 😳 #agileindia2018 https://t.co/g3KyMCrIDR


    RT @JWanigasuriya: Loved going to my first #yownight. I’m ready for Haskell thanks to @TacticalGrace & @ssanj https://t.co/mHwChcd5Uo


    @Xavier_Ho Always a problem at FP events. I’m sorry I missed this one. 🙁


    Digital is a huge part of Shell’s future. They’re even disrupting themselves – delivering fuel directly to their customers (which annoys the folks running gas stations). “If we don’t do it, someone else will.” #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/owOMF7VGkz


    @allPowerde @daveathomas NOW YOU’RE FREAKING ME OUT, DENIS. 😂😂


    Interesting experiment and activity around inclusion and subconscious bias! #AgileIndia2018 https://t.co/jbhs3bBaAF


    Ending the day with a wonderful story from an Indian Air Force veteran about India’s first women fighter pilot to fly a Mig-21 solo. It was in the paper TODAY. “So basically she just proved we wasted 50 years.” 😂👏 #AgileIndia2018 #iwd2018 https://t.co/ivDQ5FWQ86


    @evanderkoogh That’s when you message Kris. 🙂


    Came back to my hotel room to find a lovely card for #IWD2018. Everyone in India has been so friendly and lovely! https://t.co/I8KOwc6LuB https://t.co/WH6qPgfIko


    @Amys_Kapers @evanderkoogh I didn’t this time though! He figured it out on his own.


    @Amys_Kapers @evanderkoogh Am I the rubber duck? I might be the rubber duck.


    @sandeepshetty LOOOOOL. That. is. epic. 👏