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Month: April 2015

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Next @SydTechLeaders meetup: Performance – bringing out the best in people and product. I’m going! http://t.co/bz18s3RBvS

    RT @tammybutow: If you wish you were at @ladieswholinux tonight check out these slides from @GeorgiCodes 💖 http://t.co/lox8t3k7z4 http://t.…

    @tammybutow @GeorgiCodes Awwww, we miss Georgi back in Sydney! Glad she’s doing so awesome there. 🙂

    Got my Outlook inbox down to just SIX emails. It’s pathetic what a feeling of accomplishment this gives me.

    “I wore my cape in today. You didn’t even notice.” – Shireen #stuffihearintheoffice

    Full house at #ggdsyd tonight! (Photobombing girl geeks FTW.) http://t.co/sSwxfhVCQs

    @mobywhale You have the biggest cheering section in #ggdsyd history. It’s a very supportive audience. 🙂

    Heh. sezshares caught me taking a sneaky photo of her TOTES BEYONCÉ #GGDSyd microphone setup. https://t.co/zF3Ji9OMoh

    @RoseRed_Shoes Haha, I noticed. I’ll have to say hello.

    .@mobywhale is KILLING IT at #GGDSyd tonight with her talk on defeating the fear monster of public speaking. http://t.co/e0Ax17KXWT

    Great spruik for @webdirections Code by @mobywhale at #GGDSyd. Go put in a proposal! http://t.co/aChQJiSSGs http://t.co/kQqIJCugRQ

    Really cool to learn about @CodeClubAus http://t.co/GOwyihMYLZ at #GGDSyd tonight!

    Huh. My coworkers talked me out of buying leopard print. But what about FLAMINGO?! #windowshopping http://t.co/P4Ay9KlPLR

    Australian Story – whoa! Just got a tip that the Snook & I are in the credits footage of this ep from @ignitesydney! http://t.co/4QEL1fWlfj

    Huh. Unbeknownst to us, the Snook and I are visible in the credits of the most recent episode of… https://t.co/4jxLDZx3kB

    @catehstn @mobywhale @chiuki I gave the newsletter a personal testimonial too. Said you had been a member of our very own group!!

    @mobywhale Actually quite sad. It’s about one of the speakers and how mental illness affected his family.

    RT @codepo8: “Women are leaving your tech company because you don’t deserve to keep us around.”
    http://t.co/XDEl07DNXX

    @drzax I’ve started it like 4 times. Never made it past about 10% yet. 🙁

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    Huh. Unbeknownst to us, the Snook and I are visible in the credits of the most recent episode of Australian Story!

    Huh. Unbeknownst to us, the Snook and I are visible in the credits of the most recent episode of “Australian Story“!

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    Heh. @sezshares caught me taking a sneaky photo of her TOTES BEYONCÉ #GGDSyd microphone setup.

    Heh. @sezshares caught me taking a sneaky photo of her TOTES BEYONCÉ #GGDSyd microphone setup.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @GGDSydney: SheHacks 2015: Producer & Designer slots have sold out but still some Front & Back End Dev slots left. Sign up! https://t.co…

    @tobyhede Unblock.us.

    “What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy…” – This is wonderful revisionist fanfic. I loved it. http://t.co/Yd37XjB3nn

    RT @pedrogrande: Register for this year’s TiE Create-a-thon in North #sydney. Going to be a really great event! http://t.co/3TpVIJZ338 #tec…

    @venks79 Ooh, cool! Thanks!

    RT @rundavidrun: Imposter Syndrome: be honest with yourself about what you know and have accomplished & focus less on the difference. http:…

    RT @webdirections: Pretty much all the proposals for Code are from blokes. Be good to see some from women. Please help spread the word http…

  • Loved it.

    What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy… – This is wonderful. I wonder if fanfic can reclaim Petunia Dursley the way it did Susan Pevensie.

  • Reading on Flipboard

  • Bookmarking.

    MeFi: every time he said “you look beautiful,” all I heard is “you look fat” – Got about halfway through the comments and had to stop reading. Damn.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    w-g: Blackberry Cardigan and Argyll Vest – Blog post with pattern notes and more photos! http://t.co/PYTVlYusn5

    Ooh. Aldi is selling a Singer overlocker. Anybody know if it’s any good? https://t.co/Vgant5sccr @randomknits @zephyrama

    @randomknits Only three though. Could just be cranks. I’m tempted to try it out.

    @donandcarol Did you buy that one? I’m about to head to Broadway to see if they have stock.

    Broadway Aldi has plenty of overlockers. @randomknits @donandcarol http://t.co/JnVeGJhLPS

    @zephyrama @randomknits Yep – I went for it! I’ve never had my own. Figure I’ll see if I use it enough to justify a fancier one someday.

    Pork bulgogi, sesame cucumber noodles, steamed eggplant, and kimchi. Sunday Korean dinner is becoming… https://t.co/UDeR2vCfYn

    @betsybookworm I reek of garlic. 😀

    Reading: “How to Sew an Elastic Waistband That Will Never Twist” http://t.co/ai3S2xIBKj

    Reading: “Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley” http://t.co/fpxLFJifZt

    @davidbainaa Only in weird American date format. 🙂

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    Pork bulgogi, sesame cucumber noodles, steamed eggplant, and kimchi. Sunday Korean dinner is becoming a fun tradition!

    Pork bulgogi, sesame cucumber noodles, steamed eggplant, and kimchi. Sunday Korean dinner is becoming a fun tradition!

  • Blackberry Cardigan and Argyll Vest

    Yesterday I picked up my entries from the Sydney Royal Easter Show Arts & Crafts Competition. I entered two projects: a cardigan for me that had been hibernating 90% done for over a year, and a hipster vest requested by the Snook at Christmas. I’m really happy with how both of them turned out. (I didn’t win any ribbons this year, but I’ve given up trying to understand the judging criteria. That way lies madness.) Anyway, the details…

    Blackberry Cardigan

    Blackberry CardiganThis is a cardigan I started knitting for myself back in 2013 but never finished. I love knitting cables, and I wanted something warm and snuggly to wear in winter (and in my freezing cold office). The wool is Filatura di Crosa Zara merino wool, which I’d previously bought from Reecie in a destash. I’d knitted a couple things out of it previously, and I knew that it would give great stitch definition yet be soft enough to wear directly on my skin. I hate sewing up, so I knitted the body in one piece up to the arm holes. Then I split the piece and worked the back and two fronts separately up to the shoulders before joining them with a three-needle bind-off. I also knitted each sleeve in the round up to the sleeve cap, which I knitted flat. At that point, I lost my knitting mojo and the pieces sat in my craft room for well over a year. When I unearthed them, I realised there wasn’t a great deal left to do. I picked up and the knitted the giant shawl collar (which goes all the way around and includes the button holes for the front), then blocked all the pieces before sewing them together. I found the buttons at Sew Make Create. I’m really, really pleased how it turned out. I’m wearing it right now, in fact! (More details over at Ravelry.)

    Argyll Vest

    Argyll VestOver Christmas we were having lunch at a cafe in Newtown when the Snook asked if I’d knit him a “hipster sweater vest.” He so rarely asks for knitted things, I got really excited and pulled up Ravelry that minute on my iPhone to start searching for patterns. When I saw katarina’s Argyll Vest, we both knew it was the perfect one. Happily I had the pattern book it’s from already in my collection! We walked straight up to The Granny Square and picked out the wool on the spot. We selected three different “heathered” colours of Morris Empire 4-ply. The only pattern mod I made was to make the body a bit longer, because Rodd has a very long torso. Since the neckline is meant to start at the top of a diamond, I had to decide ahead of time how much length I was going to add (so I could add it on at the bottom above the ribbing). And of course, you can’t knit intarsia in the round so I had to knit the front and back separately. I love the neat geometry of intarsia and had a lot of fun seeing the diamonds emerge. The diagonal lines – which I learned are called rakers – were embroidered on with Swiss darning. Then I just had to block it, sew it up, and knitting on the bands. He really likes it! I think it’s going to get a lot of wear this winter. (More details over at Ravelry.)