RT @AWSCommunityDE: Gleich geht es los mit dem #AWSCommunityDay.
Die Lobby öffnet ab 09:00 Uhr!
Heute noch nichts vor?
Dann schau doch ei…
RT @AWSCommunityDE: Auch unsere AWS Developer Advocates @web_goddess @dtraub und @anbarth sowie unsere Sponsoren @adesso_SE @evoila_cloud @…
Los geht’s! Thank you to all the sponsors that made #AWSCommunityDay Germany possible… 🇩🇪 @AWSCommunityDE https://t.co/2Fewy97tal
RT @Seiler_IT: #Backstage aus der #Keynote des #AWSCommunityDay zusammen mit @anbarth, @web_goddess und @Osterjour.
Einen Tag lang mit vie…
RT @mxbck: JavaScript could be so nice if everyone wasn’t always trying to impress the internet with new clever ways of doing simple things.
Me: “Hey, maybe I don’t need to take Zyrtec daily anymore since I’m not in the Sydney hayfever concentration zone?”
Two days later: Nope. #mucusmonster 🤧
RT @alex_casalboni: We are live in about 30 minutes, on YouTube and Twitch! Join @AskGouda and myself for the opening keynote (English & Ar…
Discount psychology with Alexa! 😂 Dr. Yoda is currently analysing @Terafitz… #AWSCommunityDay @AWSCommunityDE https://t.co/tBJQy7pMQs
Logged back into the @AWSCommunityDE Abschluss event just in time for things to get really nerdy! 😂🎵❤️ #AWSCommunityDay https://t.co/Y6VrQ6sMCs
@Osterjour @AWSCommunityDE I only learned to say this today, but to you and all the organisers: “Ihr habt ein tolles Event auf die Beine gestellt!” ❤️ (Thank you @anbarth…)
RT @AWSCommunityDE: That’s it! #Danke an alle! Hat es euch gefallen? Lasst uns gerne ein Feedback da.
RT @mobywhale: It’s the SydCSS bake off competition! Who’s going to be baking this weekend for a chance to win a book from @abookapart? 😄 B…
RT @JennaGuillaume: I am watching Romance on the Menu — a cheesy romance set in Australia — and I am SCREAMING at their Australian cafe men…
Just putting finishing touches on my demo for upcoming AWS Modern Application Development Online Dev Day! (My first since joining the DevRel team 😍) Oct 15 at 10AM CEST – ideal for IT managers, architects, and devs. You can see agenda and register here: https://t.co/kXWrnvv6Xz https://t.co/4U5kjt799d
@damana @kcarruthers Turns out doing a theater degree was more applicable to technology than I thought…
@JennaGuillaume @TheRealBnut As a worldly Seppo, I object to this characterisation! 😂
I’m the “And Peggy!” of the Dev Rel team… 😂 @steven_bryen https://t.co/g2fCeNy60h https://t.co/r52GSRuce7
@pwcc @steven_bryen Sadly, left my corset back in Sydney. 😂
RT @ziniman: Finally out! The new This is my Architecture video with Opher Dubrovsky from @nielsen. Learn how to process 55TB 🤯 of data per…
RT @chrisma0: The next (virtual) #AWS Dev Day will be on modern app development. Especially the session on “CI/CD for serverless applicati…
Me: “I’m gonna be dropping some cash at the hair salon in the next few days…”
The Snook: “Is it tax deductible if you have to be on a livestream?”
💇♀️😂
RT @ziniman: Join #AWS DevDay Online – Modern Application Development on October 15. Opening Keynote, 3 tracks, demos and Q&A with our exp…
RT @pip_digital: Spotify CEO to invest over $1 billion of his own wealth for ‘moonshot’ bets in Europe https://t.co/KEVtgUqKQV –> https://…
Just putting finishing touches on my demo for the upcoming AWS Online Dev Day for Modern Application Development! (My first since joining the DevRel team… 😍) It’s free and it’s happening October 15 at 10AM CEST. There are separate tracks for IT managers, architects, and devs. You can see the agenda and register here:
@mmastertheone Yeah. I got the email from them about it this morning. Ugh!
@hannahyanfield Consider it a helpful way to help you filter the very best candidates!
@the_nathanjones Damn you. I just made the grocery list, but I think I’m going to have to revise…
@CoreyGinnivan @the_nathanjones AMAZING. ❤️
@tdpauw I’m sorry. I hope you feel better soon!
Things I like about German grocery stories:
– an ENTIRE ROW of pickles
– frozen giant pretzels you bake in the oven
– FOUR rows of cookies & cakes
– more types of salamis & deli meats than I ever knew existed
What I don’t like about German grocery stores:
– So. Expensive. 💰
Okay, I would’ve rated myself an expert googler (from way back when you could use things like “site:” and “link:” in your search), and I legit did not know wildcards were a thing. 😳 https://t.co/gsWLhYwxxZ
@ColtPower The sign on the aisle just says, “Sauergemüse”. 😍
@the_nathanjones @CoreyGinnivan Interestingly, I have yet to see it in a supermarket here. 🤔
@mauerbac I was gonna say Aurora, but is it a boy? How about Dynamo? 🙂
RT @renebrandel: @nil_ooy 👋 PM for Amplify here! We’re actually running a user study. If you’re curious about Amplify today (and what we’re…
@gckeller It may be the things we buy. We used to eat fairly low-carb in Australia, but fresh meat is pretty expensive. At the moment it’s just anecdotal; once I have a few more weeks’ data I’ll be able to compare better.
@abertrotzdem Our neighbourhood has a farmers market every Thursday! We checked it out last week. Definitely will be making use of that.
@abertrotzdem @ClacaEuropa Okay, now googling Turkish supermarkets. There are a few not too far away. It’ll be easier once we have our bicycles!
@Seiler_IT Yes. I’m a planner; I like to make a menu and a list for the whole week. And while I like Aldi/Lidl, they are so disorganised and the stock changes so frequently that it’s hard to plan.
Loved this deep dive on optimising your Lambda function start time! https://t.co/3lpntVsH94
Thank you @anbarth for my new favourite German phrase: “Klappe zu, Affe tot.” (Shut it down; the monkey is dead.) 😂🐒 https://t.co/DQ3VQRzZEc
Fantastic opportunity to work with one of the best folks in the biz, the poetic and noble land-mermaid herself @hannahyanfield… ❤️🧜♀️ https://t.co/uvBI33pssm
RT @Brocklesnitch: Someone found a good clip of the watermelon incident from amazing race. It was funny then and is funny now https://t.co/…
Dialled in to the AWS Berlin User group, and one of the organisers is from Melbourne! 😂 I feel right at home… @aaronwalker
@AU_JohnDw20 @aaronwalker Oh wow! They mentioned quite proudly tonight how long it’s been running – more than 80 meetups so far. Seems like a great group. 😄
@notsolonecoder Thanks for the tip! Will investigate. 😉
@The_McJones @TheRealBnut @pjf Duel of the Fates was legitimately awesome and better than anything else in that movie other than Obi-Wan’s buzzcut.
@lemon_lime Picturing you referring to the kittens as bébés…
@puzzlement Costco, IIRC. 🙂
I’m also voting early and by email from abroad. ✅🇺🇸
What’s your voting plan? https://t.co/CHu5zpvBea
Nearly done with Sex Education season 2. Seeing six young women smash a car in righteous anger at how men have casually assaulted them was the most liberating thing I’ve seen all year. Nearly made me tear up. (I still remember when it happened to me. I was 20, on the bus.)
RT @ikebarinholtz: God I love Chicago https://t.co/N6BfCBDYnc
Autumn in Munich continues to be warm and sunny, so we’ve been taking advantage to get out and about. Last weekend we caught the bus to Nymphenburg Palace, the main summer residence for the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. The palace itself is bigger than Versailles, and you approach alongside canals that flow into a large reflecting pond with a fountain.
The day was so beautiful, we didn’t even bother to go inside! We’ll save the interior for the winter. The park attached to the palace is enormous, and consists of both a formal French garden as well as an “English-style” wilderness (like the Englischer Garten). It was lovely to explore the shady tree-lined paths!
We saw quite a bit of wildlife! There were plenty of ducks and geese, of course, but we also spotted large fish in the two lakes. We were also stunned to come across a small deer grazing. It seemed remarkably unfazed by people…
We made the looooong hike to the far end of the park. I had been looking forward to seeing the Grand Cascade in action, but unfortunately it was dry! Not sure why that was. Still, we had fun sitting on a bench near Athena and enjoying a snack. You can see all the way back to the palace if you squint.
The park had several “pavilions” – miniature palaces that served as hunting lodges and tea rooms and bathing houses. Mythological figures featured heavily in the decorations, and we had fun trying to identify each of them. The Apollotemple stands opposite the Badenburg, and we wandered around the lake to visit both.
We were delighted at one point to find a small cataract, complete with Pan playing a flute and a goat lounging nearby…
As we completed our giant circular tour of the park, we ended up back at the formal French gardens near the palace. The statues were gorgeous against the blue sky and the flowers in bloom.
I even spotted Dionysus… 😂🍷
On the way home, we walked to another well-regarded ice cream shop: Patagon Helados. This was Argentinian ice cream – never had that before! It was delicious… 🍦
Fast forward a week, and we had our first visitor – Rodd’s old uni buddy Scott! Scott’s lived in Germany for many years now, but had only spent limited time in Bavaria. We gave him a tour and took him out to dinner at the local Wirtshaus Friday night.
Since Scott had a car with him, we decided on Saturday to go somewhere a bit farther afield. We headed to Oberschleissheim to the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, an aircraft museum at a historic airfield. It was about half an hour’s drive from our house, and when we got their at lunchtime, we spotted a sign pointing to a “Biergarten am Flugplatz.” We headed off on foot down the indicated road, wondering the whole time where the heck we were going to end up. Fifteen minutes later, we popped out at an amazing little beer garden literally next to the runway, complete with a live oompah band. We had sausages and beer and watched as gliders were yanked into the sky with a mechanical winch (like giant kites). It was SO FUN and surreal at the same time.
We also toured the museum itself, which had like 70 airplanes from the dawn of aviation up to the present day.
Today for our last day we headed to the Westpark, since the Snook and I had only previously explored half of it. We crossed Garmischer Strasse and headed to the far western section. The park was full of people having picnics, riding bikes, grilling sausages, and just enjoying life. We enjoyed seeing the four Asian gardens remaining from the International Garden Expo in 1983, including this gorgeous Thai-Sala.
We brought a picnic ourselves and enjoyed it in the park’s biergarten overlooking the lake. The Snook was intrigued by the stall selling fish cooked on sticks over charcoal, and I reckon at some point he’ll actually try it!
We then wandered home, enjoying the warm sun and the beautiful flowers. I don’t know how many more of these weekends we’ll have left, but it was lovely to get to spend it with an old friend!
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