Sydney Technology Leaders – Meetup – I attended this new-ish meetup group last night at UTS and it was fantastic. There were several speakers talking about challenges with scaling – scaling teams, scaling Agile, and scaling infrastructure. I will definitely be attending again the future. Highly recommended if you’re a local tech leader and want to meet and share ideas with your peers.
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Ignite Sydney 13
Tickets are now available for the next iteration of Ignite Sydney. I’m going to be presenting an updated and reworked version of my “Granny was a Hacker” talk, modified to fit the Ignite format: five minutes with slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. You should come along!
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@drkknits Actually it’s pretty much just “Tylenol”. 🙂
RT @webdirections: Build Web sites? In Sydney? Our Responsive Design conference returns March 19. Early Bird ends March 1. http://t.co/mUIx…
@redambition Hahahahahahaha
RT @MAKERSwomen: 50 years of women in space: http://t.co/2X6epnczGm #MAKERS #starstruck http://t.co/hWP9l7mZlg
@mobywhale @susanjrobertson Rhanks for teaching me what a11y means! Never heard that one before. So some good came out of the discussion. 🙂
@mobywhale Sure! I mean, I know a bit about accessibility. Just hadn’t seen it referred to in that way. Took me a second to work out. 🙂
@msharp @mobywhale THAT one I knew! 😛
@msharp @mobywhale Okay, now I’m stumped again. 🙂
@msharp @mobywhale Now you’re just taking the p2s. 🙂
Sydney Tech Leaders meet up! (@ UTS Building 10 – @utsengage in Ultimo, NSW) https://t.co/UPzIK4a99i
My first #sydtechleaders meet up. Tonight’s topic: “Scaling Well.” Excited to join the group!
Number of IT grads in AU has halved over the last decade? I did not know that. Huh. #sydtechleaders
Very cool to meet Peter from @LawPath tonight. Definitely one of the startups I’be been following lately. #sydtechleaders
I’m having Large Bank flashbacks. *shudder* #sydtechleaders
@lifeasdaddy @cwrightdesign While it’s nice to imagine army of autodidacts w/ startups, difficulty hiring seems to indicate overall drop. 🙁
@darthted I lasted three months before fleeing. 🙂
@joshhunt Yes indeed! He gave a great talk on scaling architecture.
@cwrightdesign @mobywhale @msharp “lol”
Hm. Have now lost 2 days of @fitbit sleep data due to error when adjusting times and saving on iOS app. Anybody else?
Tickets now open for the next @ignitesydney! I’m talking about knitting as computer code. http://t.co/nF0Zfz2dJL
@FoxCricket #CWC15
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Tickets for the next Ignite Sydney (on St. Pat’s Day!) are now available. I’m going to be speaking on knitting as computer code. It’s a really wacky, nerve-wracking format – strictly five minutes with auto-advancing slides. Eep!
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Reading on Flipboard
- The Heat Map Microwave uses IR cameras to show how hot your food is
- Astronauts can now drink espresso from a cup in space, because everyone deserves caffeine
- 24 Historic Photos That’ll Make You Want To Be An Astronaut
- The contagious thought that could kill you
- Seven Habits of Optimistic People
- Tim Cook: Our Objective With Apple Watch Is to Change the Way People Live Their Lives
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Kickass.
50 Years of Women in Space. Very cool and inspiring, though “First Lady Astronaut Trainees” makes me cringe.
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Urge to sew rising…
WIP Wednesday: Playful Petals Quilt – Ooh. Bookmarking since this is really cute.
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This whole American-dude-food trend is starting to bore even me. MILLER IS NOT A GOOD BEER, PEOPLE. http://t.co/GJxFz1nCgL
@thisismywww @scalzi I was pretty much joking. I know that @jkottke’s archives go back to March ’98, so he’s got me beat right there.
Telstra opens first public API to developers http://t.co/G2AYr3Tc8a // Whoa, that’s really cool @frankarr!
@frankarr I’m now trying to figure out a cool way to play with it, maybe some sort of home automation trigger? That could be cool.
@frankarr Hahahaha… “A sample application has been developed to illustrate how you might … send an SMS to someone named Frank…”
@frankarr Ooh. Ooh. I just had an idea. Company hackathon coming up. This could be interesting!
@gilmae PBR is the worst. But sadly, that place is late to the game. My lovely little local in Chippo has it too. Ugh.
RT @metafilter: Ask: Power Pop-me-up! http://t.co/oM60TbX5B8 // BEST ASKME EVER. This is all so very much up-my-alley I’m going to pass out.
Reading: “Tim Cook: Our Objective With Apple Watch Is to Change the Way People Live Their Lives” http://t.co/WUTvXcTAzC
Reading: “Seven Habits of Optimistic People” http://t.co/ERWkzqBy9N
Reading: “The contagious thought that could kill you” http://t.co/tw5Tjujh37
Reading: “Astronauts can now drink espresso from a cup in space, because everyone deserves caffeine” http://t.co/6GIlFFl5ma
Reading: “24 Historic Photos That’ll Make You Want To Be An Astronaut” http://t.co/e8OtSbipqF
Reading: “The Heat Map Microwave uses IR cameras to show how hot your food is” http://t.co/oVY1NyVF36
@johnallsopp Heh I knew immediately without even scrolling down what you were ranting about. Read that over breakfast too. 🙂
@chrisgander More like 7ish. I found some cool scripts to pull Fitbit data into a Google spreadsheet for analysis. No strong patterns yet.
@NickDeverell My friend @kunaal84 is there somewhere, I think!
@chrisgander Quantified Self 4 LIFE DUDE.
RT @gusseting: RT @PandoDaily: The $1 billion company that prefers 40 year old coders who only work 45 hours a week http://t.co/g7ZVGKD20r …
@gilmae @redambition That sounds like Wuss Talk. Empathy is for suckers. (Guess how my morning’s going?)
@redambition @gilmae People learning to HTFU is the answer. 😛
@redambition @gilmae Meh. Just tired of grown people who act like they’re still in high school, you know?
@randomknits That would explain a lot!
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…