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Month: June 2018

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @joselynhughes: god bless amy poehler https://t.co/5tcLN9mckH

    Excellent thread. I knew about Etsy’s three-armed knitted sweater, but I hadn’t heard the actual story before… https://t.co/jMm3Gt8LOc

    RT @yow_conf: šŸšØ Our #YOWPER workshop registrations are now live! šŸšØ
    Whether you’re interested into Product Ownership, architecting enterprā€¦

    RT @HillaryClinton: But my emails. https://t.co/G7TIWDEG0p

    Current mood. šŸŽµšŸ’ƒ https://t.co/cP2dQXRPly

    @fbz Ooh, I’ll give it a go once I’m done dancing!

    Finally seeing some influence of @WeWork on @meetup… Interesting! (Now how about increasing the rate limits on the API? šŸ˜‚) https://t.co/H8t3wFMYij

    WTF Google ads. Why are stupid Bitcoin ads being shown on my site for kids? I had disabled all the inappropriate ad categories… I guess this is a new one. šŸ™„ https://t.co/A6i0qviVwR

    @starbuxman Should’ve come to my @voxxedsingapore talk and you could’ve heard the whole 22 year saga of it! šŸ™‚

    As Friday afternoons go, Iā€™ve had worse. https://t.co/6U6wkTI1e7 https://t.co/rWOmm3UD5K

    The cat is out of the bag! Last day at YOW! šŸ˜­ Blog post: New adventuresā€¦ https://t.co/CEIJ6qG6yP https://t.co/WqTQvRM2HG

    RT @MichelePlayfair: What’s more fun than an escaped cat? Two cats! I’m excited to be joining YOW! as Executive Director on July 9. šŸ˜Š httpsā€¦

    RT @MichelePlayfair: Nobody can replace the amazing @web_goddess but I can promise to carry on the selfie tradition. Cheers! https://t.co/8ā€¦

    @MichelePlayfair Um, can you take all my selfies forever? Because this is one of the BEST photos of me!!

    Gudetama enjoys the Vivid Festival, but wishesā€¦ https://t.co/fCd1Ya2T64

    Celebrating with some awesome folks! @marlousteh @babyimhungryy @darthted1 https://t.co/gokSAcromR https://t.co/smmMlJ7Q9g

    RT @marlousteh: A picture says a thousand words.. Happy and sad at the same time.. But I canā€™t be selfish so Iā€™ll choose to be happy for yoā€¦

    Me: I dreamed my tooth cracked and crumbled and fell out. What do you think that means?

    The Snook: You think youā€™re losing power, agency, or influence.

    šŸ˜³

    @secretGeek I definitely do that, but Iā€™ve worn a mouth guard for years. So itā€™s not new

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    As Friday afternoons go, Iā€™ve had worse.

    The cat is out of the bag! Last day at YOW! šŸ˜­ Blog post: New adventuresā€¦ https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/19106

    Celebrating with some awesome folks! @marlousteh @babyimhungryy @darthted1

    Gudetama enjoys the Vivid Festival, but wishes he were back in bed. @ Vivid Sydney

  • Celebrating with some awesome folks! @marlousteh @babyimhungryy @darthted1

  • New adventures…

    Iā€™m both excited and sad to announce that today is my last day at YOW! Conferences. In many ways this has been my dream job, and the last two years have flown by really quickly. Iā€™m proud of every event weā€™ve put on, and YOWā€™s commitment to supporting and growing the APAC tech industry – especially with regards to diversity. Since Iā€™ve been here, Iā€™ve been honoured to meet and spend time with some of the smartest, most interesting folks from our community and overseas – people whose work is going to change the world. And in a way, thatā€™s what prompted me to leave. After being around such inspirational folks tackling big problemsā€¦ I suddenly realised that I missed being those people. The fun of a conference is in taking what you learn back to your team and building on it, and I need that challenge. I want to work with the teams and companies solving these big gnarly problems and see what I can do to help.

    Of course, itā€™s super hard to leave Dave and the amazing YOW! Team. Not only are they all friendly and great at their jobs, I know what events and speakers they have coming down the pipeline – and Iā€™m already regretting not being there for all of it! If you get a chance to attend one of our conferences, you should. (And Dave – Iā€™m available to speak whenever you want! šŸ˜ƒ)

    Just for fun, I thought Iā€™d add up all the events Iā€™ve gone to on YOW!ā€™s behalf over the last twenty months…

    YOW Confs (attending or hosting) – 11
    YOW Confs (speaking) – 4
    YOW Nights (hosting) – 19
    YOW Nights (speaking) – 3
    Non-YOW Conferences (attending) – 7
    Non-YOW Conferences (speaking) – 8
    Hackathons (judging) – 3
    Meetups (speaking) – 36
    Meetups (attending) – 92
    Training courses (attending) – 2
    User group meetups (hosting) – 12

    Thatā€™s just shy of 200 tech events (197 to be exact) across four countries. šŸ˜±

    So what will I be doing with myself after today? First Iā€™ve got a little bit of time off, and I plan to spend it catching up with friends, knitting, and watching a lot of Netflix. Then on the 25th I will be starting a new role with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Sydney in the Solutions Architecture team. Iā€™m so excited to meet everyone and start learning new things!

    And NO MEETUPS for whileā€¦ at least a month. Or maybe a fortnightā€¦ or a week. Weā€™ll see. šŸ˜œ



  • As Friday afternoons go, Iā€™ve had worse.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @darthted I knew someone would pull me up on that. Twitter is different! It has personality! LinkedIn folks put like 17 checkmarks in their name and it drives me BONKERS.

    @Sitback @GRobilliard G didn’t actually cite that as her reason; she was just showing her cute dog Maki. I cheekily suggested it was to get people to go easy on her – and then quickly added an image of my cat to my own slides. šŸ˜‚

    @phoebegoh I use @FullContact for that reason. I need to record context about who people are and be able to search that.

    RT @yow_conf: Coming to our Perth #yownight with @vonconrad tonight?
    Join us at @WoodsideEnergy for an evening about Event Sourcinghttps:/ā€¦

    I literally just checked this. On my Mac, it’s centered. *exhale* https://t.co/24Ll6s0Tw0

    @benschwarz @MelissaKaulfuss I rode one once just so I could be justified in my annoyance with them. They’re heavy AF, very few or no gears (in Sydney!), seat didn’t go high enough to sit comfortably, gross helmets. So even if the idea was good, the execution sucked. https://t.co/ggJjDpqFiQ

    @gilmae You = the worst.

    Spotify served up “Jimmy Olsen Blues” by the Spin Doctors in my Discover Weekly, and I mortified myself by somehow – after not hearing it for 20+ years – knowing most of the words. “I’ve got a pocket full of – kryptoniiiite!”

    @DVDBits I tip my hat to you, sir.

    Tonightā€™s @SydTechLeaders kicking off! Thanks to @MessageMedia1 and @CampaignMonitor for sponsoring. ā¤ļø #sydtechleaders https://t.co/ZYDKotM82k

    Love @brettporterā€™s pitch to join @SafetyCultureHQ – ā€œItā€™s 26 degrees in Townsville right nowā€¦ā€ šŸ˜‚ā¤ļøā˜€ļø #sydtechleaders https://t.co/eVOO2YWuWq

    Thanks @randomknits for hooking us up with these awesome new timing signs, expertly wielded by @gilmae! #sydtechleaders https://t.co/bI2rKpvWCB

    Next up is @hiconomics from @HotelsCombined telling us about their journey and transformationā€¦ #sydtechleaders https://t.co/j3tBunc9LU

    Interesting. Every language you learn, you develop almost another personality, you grow. @hiconomics needed his team to stop ā€˜thinkingā€™ in English. #sydtechleaders https://t.co/75d5IfQpG6

    This is the first company value Iā€™ve ever seen that was sourced from Urban Dictionary. šŸ˜‚ #sydtechleaders @hiconomics https://t.co/xIXZOSFdMS

    A useful (and slight cheeky) decision tree from @paulkeen – Should you aim for transformation or turnaround? #sydtechleaders https://t.co/r9Da9izamM

    Loving the vintage Dick Smith ads in @paulkeenā€™s talk! #sydtechleaders https://t.co/LF8mlm4YHY

    Startups think legacy systems are 2 years old. @paulkeen is talking about systems that are 30 years old! #sydtechleaders (For a great talk on legacy evolution, see @daveathomasā€™s recent #yownight! https://t.co/CDpUWhBlDu) https://t.co/TGJQICGJez

    Some great takeaways from @paulkeenā€™s experiences in multiple turnaround & transformation projects! #sydtechleaders https://t.co/pQbuypQNiM

    View from the legendary #sydtechleaders Q&A panelā€¦ https://t.co/0f4mQiKB5Q

    @andykelk @nxdnz Iā€™d much rather give up LinkedIn than Twitter!

    @LiamElliott_au Youā€™re so right! The panellistsā€™ emphasis on people issues reminded me of a great YOW talk last year from @kytrinyx on how the big problems in tech are those messy, hard to control human beings. Computers are easy in comparison.

    RT @MIT_CSAIL: 65 yrs ago this month Sister Mary Keller received what many view as the 1st CS PhD, and she also helped develop BASIC: httpsā€¦

    @philnash @glenngillen @hj_chen @smashingmag I have been thinking about losing mine for similar reasonsā€¦ šŸ˜‚

    RT @ABC: IMITATION GAME: This bear lets his inner child out as he jumps in unison with a 5-year-old boy at the Nashville Zoo. https://t.co/ā€¦

    @imdominating Did you see the picture of Chris Pine in WW 1984 in the fanny pack? *swoon*

    @imdominating A+ plan, would not turn you in. šŸ˜‚šŸ’Æ

    @minxdragon šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Spotify served up “Jimmy Olsen Blues” by the Spin Doctors in my Discover Weekly, and I mortified myself by somehow – after not hearing it for 20+ years – knowing most of the words.

    “I’ve got a pocket full of – kryptoniiiite!”

    Well played, Spotify. Well played.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @msharp @GGDSydney I’ve *talked* about code a fair bit, but it was the first time I actually switched to an IDE or did a deploy in front of an audience šŸ™‚

    RT @The_McJones: It begins!

    Go buy a ticket now, remember all the cool kids will be there! https://t.co/IJeNnJYUWt

    RT @angusscown: hoping to catch up with a few other of Brisbane tech people at @vonconrad @yow_conf yow night tonight. Event sourcing & CQRā€¦

    @liamesler @vonconrad @yow_conf @CultureAmp AWWWWW!

    RT @liamesler: Feeling extremely proud of my partner, @vonconrad. He’s in Brisbane right now speaking at one of @yow_conf’s YOW! Nights, waā€¦

    Huh. @metafilter is down. I can only assume it’s people reloading the #mprraccoon thread.

    Hey Perth – it’s your turn tomorrow! https://t.co/pMw5d0Vi0D https://t.co/ffx3Ba5xa2

    Love is… šŸ˜» https://t.co/3TtusZt8QU https://t.co/ASvkN6De0s

    My talk “Building Applications That Last” from @voxxedsingapore is now online! Thanks @engineersftw for recording. šŸ˜ https://t.co/BmMTpKBi7F https://t.co/iyxwHWg4WD

    RT @alicegoldfuss: Things in need of disruption:
    – PAP smears
    – HRT / trans* healthcare
    – parental leave
    – mental healthcare
    – capitalism
    -ā€¦

    I find it frustrating that the only people who bother to put in note when requesting me on LinkedIn are people I recognise immediately and jump at the chance to connect with. For every one of those, there are 10 randos with friggin’ emoji in their usernames.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Love is… šŸ˜»

    The video from my talk at Voxxed Days Singapore is now available! Thanks @Michael Cheng and the Engineers.sg crew for recording, and to the Voxxed organisers for inviting me…

    SOMETHING WEIRD IS HAPPENING. My cats are sitting next to each other on the couch voluntarily. No hissing, no growling. Now they’re actually touching! How in the world?

    Apparently in addition to being the world’s greatest housesitter, Kelly Vincent is also some sort of Cat Whisperer. šŸ˜»

  • Love is… šŸ˜»