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    After all that endless 4ply in Lanatus, it’s nice to be back to DK for Orkney! ❤️

    After all that endless 4ply in Lanatus, it’s nice to be back to DK for Orkney! ❤️


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    RT @LittlerLabel: anyone else spend December saying “I’m just tired, I just need a couple of weeks off then I’ll be fine” and then come bac…


    One of my favourite Aussie artists. I saw an exhibition of her work at the QAGOMA a few years back and ended up carrying a large print of “The Sock Knitter” home to Sydney on the airplane. ❤️ https://t.co/DNr9WdhNEs https://t.co/MNfb8raqdY


    TIL there is an album on @Spotify called “Now That’s What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1”. 😳⚓️🎵 https://t.co/zqCAb22BzQ https://t.co/aL2pfA9zH4


    RT @johnallsopp: Get along to these and we’ve got CFPs open for 5 online conferences in 2021 and we can’t wait to hear from you!

    https://t…


    @bazscott I can’t decide if I’m proud that I knew immediately what you were talking about. 😂



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    @minxdragon @seriouseats Yep, just search that title on the seriouseats site!


    RT @abc_everyday: What the heck is a sea shanty and why are they going viral https://t.co/9umQpprGPB


    Me: “What’s that sound? Oh. Tiny balls of ice are falling from the sky.”
    Him: “It does not look pleasant out there.”
    Me: “It does not.” @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/dCyANHDj1J


    @charis Yep, seen lots of finished “Tempestries” this year! Very cool. Nicely done, @susie_hailey! ❤️


    @darthted We haven’t finished it yet. There’s your review. 😂


    RT @adhorn: Great to see the work done by AWS for internet security using Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to prevent BGP hijackin…


    @hannahcancode Interesting Google search there, HANNAH. 😉


    @friendlyunit @MelissaKaulfuss I always found it weird that Aussies often give “average” a negative connotation. “How was it? Pretty average” = bad. But to my American ears, average is actually pretty good!


    @TheresaNeate I always, always recommend @LookaheadSearch for tech and tech leadership roles in Australia. They’re the best. ❤️


    Oh no. We visited it in May 2019 but didn’t climb. Very sad. 🙁 https://t.co/fzdy3BN5aS


    I need this shirt, but with “Stricken” instead of “Häkeln”. 😉 https://t.co/h0YBsXaPR7


    А ты говоришь по-русски? I’m looking for a Europe-based Russian-speaking Developer Advocate to join my team at @awscloud. If you love inspiring others to build in the Cloud, please get in touch! (DMs open.) https://t.co/yhysUgc6Gd


    @yaghmoer I don’t crochet.


    @CatSwetel Yep. And it also makes me feel just a little prouder to actually be a female tech leader and manager. I knew I was a unicorn, but didn’t realise so many of my peers had never had one.


    @jennapederson YES, death to Todo apps! Here’s a left-field one – I’d love to see a demo building the “Dress Me” app from Clueless. 😂👗 I saw a conf talk that @hannahcancode did that used it a few years back and thought it was GENIUS!


    Cool! I was hoping for some cables or textural interpretations rather than just pixel charts, but these are still pretty neat. https://t.co/6I2PsM9r82


    Relatedly, I once knitted the Wow! Signal into a scarf. 📡👽🧣 https://t.co/nugWDSUr0o https://t.co/RPUBRQYCeP


    One 45 minutes to go! Now the real question is, can I drink wine, knit, and play #devopspartygames all at the same time? 🤔🍷🧶💻 https://t.co/fFYVKazsix


    @mattstratton LET’S DO THIS. #devopspartygames https://t.co/rtfJ7MdyxU


    @KaiPMDH How can I be living in Germany and not have any beer in the house? 😭


    @KaiPMDH I like it, but I’m not sophisticated about it. This lovely little drop cost me a whole €4. 😂


    @abertrotzdem IT’S GORGEOUS! 😍


    Honestly, the high point of #devopspartygames for me was when someone complimented my hand-drawn pretzel avatar. 🥨❤️ #tinyvictories https://t.co/zIQ4ELEGSh


    I made a little video about corrugated ribbing, and various methods for knitting it! 🧶 https://t.co/WD4cfUNRX8



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    Me: “What’s that sound? Oh. Tiny balls of ice are falling from the sky.”
    Him: “It does not look pleasant out there.”
    Me: “It does not.”


    For the geeks: I’m going be on the first ever Euro episode of DevOps Party Games in half an hour! Prediction: this is going to be very silly.



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    Me: “What’s that sound? Oh. Tiny balls of ice are falling from the sky.”
    Him: “It does not look pleasant out there.”
    Me: “It does not.”


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    @jonoabroad Was about to tweet the same thing. I mean, I know what they are, but why are they suddenly a Thing?


    @thebeebs @RachelAppel @jonoabroad Beardy guys in Aran sweaters singing shanties? Now you’ve got my attention. I thought Tiktok was just millennials doing Ratatouille duets. 😍


    3 years later, still pointing folks to @aurynn’s post on Contempt Culture. So many prominent folks in the industry fall back on tired trope of crapping on/joking about particular programming languages, and you just shouldn’t. It’s lazy and exclusionary. https://t.co/cgNARj3GCh


    @venks79 Exactly. 💯


    Korean Spicy Marinated Pork With Chilies and Kimchi (Jaeyook Kimchi Bokum) from @seriouseats, made by me! 🐷🌶🍚 https://t.co/ZBBInHoliM



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    Korean Spicy Marinated Pork With Chilies and Kimchi (Jaeyook Kimchi Bokum) from @seriouseats, made by me! 🐷🌶🍚



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    Korean Spicy Marinated Pork With Chilies and Kimchi (Jaeyook Kimchi Bokum) from @seriouseats, made by me! 🐷🌶🍚

    Korean Spicy Marinated Pork With Chilies and Kimchi (Jaeyook Kimchi Bokum) from @seriouseats, made by me! 🐷🌶🍚


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    @mmastertheone Sweet! Thanks


    @charis AWS announced a new Location service last month at Reinvent. I haven’t gotten hands on with it yet, but may be worth a look as an alternative for your app: https://t.co/moo66CXGUw


    RT @mavi888uy: Do you want to do some hands on learning with AWS!
    Check this site with over 100 curated workshops and all of them organize…


    @charis @TimSeverien Cool! Good luck with it.


    @TotherAlistair Do Not Disturb doesn’t work? That’s at the top of the notifications tray in upper right… https://t.co/xwC2hHoulN


    @mikeeedwards @TotherAlistair If you want to guarantee no disruptions, create another user account on the Mac that you only use for presenting, and don’t connect anything to it. I’ve done that in the past to make 100% sure. Also nice because you don’t have browser history, etc.


    EEP! Wardrobe decisions! (This is going to be fun.) 🤔 https://t.co/fFYVKazsix


    @mattstratton Ha! That’s fine by me. 😅


    @Catharz @qkate You rang?? (Can’t see original tweet.) 😂


    @FuckboisOfLit Hey! I DMed ages ago. I run @RoaldDahlFans, and damn, would he be rich pickings for an episode. 😉


    RT @yow_conf: 📅 SAVE THE DATE! 📅

    YOW! Lambda Jam will return as an online 1-day 3-track (#Haskell, #Scala, #Elixir/ #Erlang) conference…



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    @randomknits @TulaPink Beautiful!


    Just realised I can finally add @DeirdreS to my “Aussie Tech Not-Men” list! https://t.co/lqrIMI4G6d https://t.co/NN0X3DNdsl


    RT @Vel12171: Join me at the @awspta meetup for a re:cap of some of the #reinvent announcements #reinvent2020. See below for all details. M…


    RT @FourRedShoes: Delighted to have been able to talk about historical corsets for this @SmithsonianMag article, along with the highly know…


    RT @alex_casalboni: 🇮🇹 🆕 🔈 Buon 2021! Il podcast in italiano di AWS è tornato con il 31esimo episodio: i 20 annunci più interessanti del re…


    RT @dtraub: 🎙Neuer Security-Tipp im AWS-Podcast:

    Heute spreche ich über AWS IAM und eine spezielle Policy, mit der man einem Benutzer oder…


    Him: The Polar Vortex collapsed.
    Me: What does that mean?
    Him: Means it’s cold af!
    😲❄️ #icantputmyarmsdown https://t.co/gMOcmhLn9P


    @darthted C, so it’s ~20F right now.




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