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Author: Kris

  • Beanie progress

    Beanie progress

    I’m making good progress on the alpaca beanie I’m knitting for Rodd to match his scarf. No pattern; I’m just making it up as I go.

  • Wrapstodon

    My Mastodon instance (aus.social) is participating in “Wrapstodon,” where the server generates some fun end-year-stats for you. My most popular post was this one featuring my niece Indie’s embroidered sneakers!

    Wrapstodon

  • Timpano

    Timpano

    Trying to convince the Snook that he should make us a timpano for Christmas dinner, using Stanley Tucci’s recipe from his book Taste. 

  • New dining room set!

    New dining room set!

    After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍

  • Riddle Me Gifts at Moore Park Christmas Markets

    My friend Kristin mentioned on Facebook yesterday that she would have a stall at the Moore Park Christmas Markets, and she asked if anyone could come cover her for a bit at lunchtime. I volunteered! So I’m helping to sell her very clever 3D-printed puzzle gift boxes.

    Two women at a craft stall at a market

    Puzzle boxes

    Puzzle boxes

    Riddle Me Gifts sign

  • Don’t be a creep, Mr. Feynman.

    After 10 days of tech conference, *of course* I was going to come home on Friday night and watch a 3hr documentary on why Richard Feynman’s legacy is mostly BS. Who wouldn’t?

    (via Metafilter)

  • YOW Sydney 2024

    In the end, I managed to see almost every talk at YOW 2024. Here are the final four talks I saw today…

    Holly Cummins presenting at YOW

    Johan Janssen presenting at YOW

    Unmesh Joshi presenting at YOW

    Josh Long presenting at YOW

  • Renovation update

    Renovation update

    Dirt!! This is only like 10% of the total area, but it’s a good reminder of the fact that plants will eventually be growing here.

  • YOW Sydney 2024

    Much like Pokemon, I’m trying to catch all the YOW speakers! Today I added 4 more to my collection in Sydney…

    Oscar Nierstrasz presenting at YOW

    Kris Jenkins presenting at YOW

    Trisha Gee presenting at YOW

    Damian Brady presenting at YOW

  • Retirement

    People on social media keep implying that I’m doing retirement incorrectly. I suspect they expected me to become a complete homebody and retire from public life? 🤷‍♀️ But really, it means I don’t have a full-time job and I spend my time how I like. Some days I’m helping out at a tech conference; other days I’m in my PJs playing videogames or in my craft room making something. After six years of doing pretty much nothing but AWS, it’s nice to pick and choose. I contain multitudes, people. 😂