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    See ya, Australia! We’ll be back before you know it. 😜🇦🇺❤️


    Singapore is hot, so you need beer. Green beer. 😂🍻



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    See ya, Australia! We’ll be back before you know it. 😜🇦🇺❤️

    See ya, Australia! We’ll be back before you know it. 😜🇦🇺❤️


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    RT @lants: Two very different responses. https://t.co/ypDey2yuGd


    Farewelling Australia (for now) with steak, truffles, and red wine. 🍷🇦🇺❤️ @ Eastside Bar & Grill https://t.co/QjUci6sKkM


    Me at 6pm: joking about our hotel room being on the 13th floor.

    Me at 11pm as the fire alarm starts blaring EVACUATE: “Well, shit.”

    (It stopped as we were running for the stairwell. Could see trucks on Broadway. Front desk says all is well now. 🤷‍♀️) https://t.co/c72H4jqEaQ



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    I don’t like having to think about things like whether I’m doomscrolling too much and what the financial and long-term implications of expatriation might be and whether my nieces and nephews will be safe at school and how anyone can support this madness and whether it’s morbid to actually be grateful I’m peri menopausal and whether my company will support me if I say I don’t want to travel to the US anymore and wondering whether that is playing into the hands of the radical religious nutbars and researching how I can support women and LGBTQI Americans who are rightly fearful for their lives, all before I’ve had my damn breakfast. 🤬🤬🤬🤬


    Farewelling Australia (for now) with steak, truffles, and red wine. 🍷🇦🇺❤️



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    Farewelling Australia (for now) with steak, truffles, and red wine. 🍷🇦🇺❤️

    Farewelling Australia (for now) with steak, truffles, and red wine. 🍷🇦🇺❤️


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    RT @codess_aus: #NDCMelbourne #Selfies with the gang https://t.co/UqLmehjn28


    It’s not often I see a tech conf topic that is entirely new to me. As @ImSamLevy says, most a11y talks are about the front end – how do you make the topic relevant to a backend developer? #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/IqaycBkwyw


    No recording studio, no problem! Thanks @deekoob for coming to my rescue for filming this morning. https://t.co/Qfevh35Poc


    Thanks @HeartOfPluto_ for showing us your amazing knitted galaxy today! It’s the centrepiece of a new exhibit at the State Library of Victoria, one of my favorite places in Melbs. Congrats Sarah!! 🧶🌌 https://t.co/7GkHkSIy55


    RT @quorralyne: These impressive humans really brought a lot to #NDCMelbourne and I’m so grateful to know them.
    @bendechrai @web_goddess ht…


    RT @OxfordDiplomat: In 2018 the people of Ireland spoke loud and clear. Repealing one of the strictest abortion bans in the world. Giving I…


    RT @mcannonbrookes: Atlassian’s statement on today’s Supreme Court ruling in the USA. https://t.co/EmXz2fUMaN



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    No recording studio, no problem! Thanks @deekoob for coming to my rescue for filming this morning.


    Thanks Heart of Pluto for showing us your amazing knitted galaxy today! It’s the centrepiece of a new exhibit at the State Library of Victoria, one of my favorite places in Melbs. Congrats Sarah!!



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    No recording studio, no problem! Thanks @deekoob for coming to my rescue for filming this morning.

    No recording studio, no problem! Thanks @deekoob for coming to my rescue for filming this morning.


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    @diversionary They’re the Dresdens, too. When he sent me the photo while he was still deliberating, I was like, no, it’s fine. But then all last night it kept FREAKING ME OUT. 😂


    Software isn’t milk, @EmadAshi says. You don’t have to release it every day. Yes, fast feedback cycles are good, but you aren’t failing if you aren’t there yet! Pragmatic advice. #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/24EJBxLHAn


    URLs should be forever, @soyarsauce says. Heartily agree. 301 redirect your moved URLs, people! 💎 #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/Zsr4fPbxZw


    Great audience for @deekob’s session on design patterns resilience (and his bad jokes 😂) at #NDCMelbourne ! 👏 https://t.co/Mzc2IVJ4L8


    @Amys_Kapers @philnash @twilio I WANT A SCRUNCHIE, PHIL!


    RT @Amys_Kapers: So excited to have @web_goddess back in the country for #NDCMelbourne, talking about her career https://t.co/xH1weXR01p


    @Malarkey Not a chap, but I wear this one: https://t.co/rk5SZTevwS


    If you’d like to hear more about @HeartOfPluto_’s amazing hacked knitting machine, she gave a talk about it at the 2018 @linuxconfau Art + Tech miniconf! You can watch here: https://t.co/g1SliCV5IH https://t.co/oYmowQoPvq



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    All mic’ed up and ready to go! @ndc_conferences #ndcmelbourne @ Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) https://t.co/HIw7z3QJam


    @rdrktr It’s still going strong in our Sydney house! We bought one of the newer ones in Germany with the glass bottles, but I prefer the old one.


    RT @Don_IsGood: Excited to see this boss lady speak!!! ⁦@web_goddess⁩ ⁦@NDC_Conferences⁩ https://t.co/o3Fs8dz1mw


    RT @codess_aus: @web_goddess sharing all her insider tips on interviewing at #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/Mg10y40nqr


    It’s been a loooong time since I’ve seen @slace presenting in person! Lots of folks interested in learning his tips for VSCode. #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/mUx6qsf0CQ


    RT @codess_aus: All the cool peeps are here #squad #NDCMelbourne https://t.co/aZKP6uuq3P


    TIL. Noooooooo! 😭 GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 – TechCrunch https://t.co/ubDhDsuaAE


    @codess_aus @damovisa @Amys_Kapers @github @MicrosoftDevANZ Oh, no slides for me!


    I used @canva for my #NDCMelbourne session “Interviewing Like a Boss.” You can check out the slides here! Thanks to everyone who came and asked questions. https://t.co/0hiswdTVFj https://t.co/kzmzxCN6Ir


    If you are looking to improve your org’s hiring, my friend @darthted recommended this book: https://t.co/l802SsZbRm.


    “Do my new glasses make me look too much like @diversionary?” “Noooooo.” (Yes.) 😂🤓 https://t.co/BzBV973eWi


    @unixbigot HA!! 😂


    RT @neon_heartbeat: i am once again asking for Muppet’s Pride and Prejudice with everyone played by Muppets except Mr. Darcy who is played…




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