Need a pick me up? Watch this nice Canadian lady help an adorable porcupine who couldn’t roll over. ❤️ https://t.co/LvI8TedTrf
@charis Thanks for that. I hadn’t heard about it, and I’m already dreading the work involved to make my sites work with it. 😐
RT @yow_conf: 😱😱😱😱😱
We’re all a little bit excited! https://t.co/9CoiyUMW12
Nice crowd for #fpsyd as Erik kicks things off! https://t.co/3m3vNzunfg
First talk is @lambda_foo talking about error handling and data types. I think from the chuckles there was a reference to @markhibberd. 😂 #fpsyd https://t.co/EAd6LNVFLt
“Wait… does that say ‘@since TODO’?!” Yep. 😂 @lambda_foo #fpsyd https://t.co/hKkOeW1KJB
Someone who works for one of Peter Thiel’s companies asked for my help recruiting women recently. I told them I had moral issues with that. “His influence is really minimal!” I demurred. We all have a line somewhere.
@charis I deleted my Paypal account over that asshat. 😂
I love how #fpsyd talks end up being a collaborative group exploration of a topic rather than a one-way info dump. ❤️👏
“Gentlemen – we are a community in crisis.” @jedws is talking about the problem of diversity in the FP community. “We, the majority, need to do something about it.” 👏 #fpsyd https://t.co/phkmuhRhYe
“It’s normal human behaviour, to default to homogenous culture. We want to seek out people like us.” Can confirm that I was approached at #fpsyd tonight by a woman with “Yes, there’s another woman here!” https://t.co/jeVEIoP0BI
Wow. This is interesting. I’ve seen a lot of “diversity in tech” talks, and they rarely attract this level of debate and dissection. Not sure what that means. #fpsyd
On Monday this week, I saw a man stand in front of a crowd and say “We all know these benefits of diversity,” and everyone nodded. Two days later I’m at a Meetup where another man is being picked apart and grilled over the exact same set of assertions. 😐
@gilmae No. The why.
Good discussion of contempt culture now. @aurynn – this is from the seed you planted. 👊 #fpsyd https://t.co/R7IWPkKfn0
@darraghke @jedws Unfortunately no. But if someone wants to invite @jedws to present in Melbs, he does get down there fairly regularly.
@afcowie It’s disheartening. I’m so appreciative of the support I’ve had from folks like you and @jedws and @KenScambler and @TacticalGrace, but if this had been my first exposure to the FP community… I probably wouldn’t be back.
@darraghke @jedws Coincidentally he just praised Zendesk’s diversity efforts! 👏
Great advice from @jedws for folks in the FP community: listen, be welcoming, describe FP as a growth-mindset field… and don’t be a dick. 👏 #fpsyd https://t.co/vjDkPODFn7
@KenScambler @afcowie @jedws @TacticalGrace No video – but we definitely need him to do it in Melbs!
Final talk – learning about Cabal from Erik. Hey, Haskell! #fpsyd https://t.co/kWfoD1BrXW
@jedws @afcowie @KenScambler @TacticalGrace I would hope that would be the case. I really appreciated though that it was a longstanding leader in the community raising the issue, and others arguing in support, rather than someone like me. I was frankly just really surprised at the reaction. I’ve never seen that before.
Trying to pay attention to a tech talk, but distracted by assisting a colleague on Slack who is struggling with unsolicited messages from a dude on https://t.co/m2wfyluaNQ. Via a women’s coding group. Oh, and I got one this week too. 😐🔫
@aurynn I told him about you when he was writing the talk. I told some of the attendees who were interested to look up your talk from LCA. 👍
Third talk of the night to reference Ambiata at some point… #fpsyd https://t.co/B3bZcbLEIE
@aurynn Thank YOU for giving me the vocabulary to talk about the water I was swimming in and behaviours that made me angry in ways I couldn’t describe.
@simonwaight We are and have been. We know. We deal with them constantly. 😕
@simonwaight I mean, a dude who joins a Women Who Code group in bad faith is not the type who is going to be swayed by a code of conduct anyway.
@tessiselated Exactly. 🔨
@TacticalGrace @jedws @afcowie @KenScambler You didn’t even hear the part where someone started quoting the median differences in gender IQ tests! (Thankfully he was rightly shouted down by just about everyone.)
@gilmae I’ll tell you tomorrow. Meet up is still going and I’m too tired.
This is the first meetup I’ve been to that ran so late Night Shift kicked in on my phone.
@Amys_Kapers iPhones have a mode late at night where it shifts the colour balance to orange to help you get to sleep. Mine kicks in at 10pm.
@jonoabroad @jedws Sadly no. 🙁
@roisinparkes FP Syd. Uncharacteristically long one.
@johnallsopp They’ve been talking about it on The Watch podcast a fair bit recently. Made me want to watch. Maybe something for Easter long weekend! https://t.co/5c7rIj0fph
@StephenNancekiv Yeah, I’ve seen it happen before at other FP-Syds. I actually tweeted in praise of the format during the first talk. I think it works for a lot of topics. Just didn’t expect it on that one. But thank you. 🙂
RT @DanielleWarby: Yes. It’s not that hard people!
An Aussie example: there’s actually no Australian cricket team but there is the Austral…
RT @JennaGuillaume: 😫😭😍 https://t.co/o7YsXkSmJR
@tathamoddie @robdmoore @fegreeds @readify This is the thing I miss most about having an office! Remote is nice, but choc eggs I buy myself are just sad. 😂