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Month: October 2016

  • Shared today on Twitter

    This is your absolute last chance to submit for @yow_oz @ctosummit! CFP is closing later today – DON’T WAIT. https://t.co/cLJVgnfcBV

    @slace Nope! Replace it with “engineering leader” if that helps. 🙂

    Really proud to be on the advisory panel for @SheStartsAU. Have you submitted? It’s the LAST DAY! https://t.co/p4eO76B8HM

    @zarahjutz It is *so* a thing! I’ve been working on evangelising Halloween for 15 years now. 😀

    @lemon_lime MONKEY LOVE BANANA.

    Yay! Please bring it with you, @lexy_jane. Would ❤️ to have people knitting through my @yow_oz talk! https://t.co/oHTbEMIQ51

    @joannaferrari48 Thrilled to see you’ll be speaking at Google event on Thursday! I’ll see you there. 🙂

    RT @slatteryit: Popular #agileaus workshop from @elabor8’s @knitterjp returns to Syd! Get the word out to #Agile #BusinessAnalyst https://t…

    Spent the afternoon working out of the @dius_au offices. Nice place; lovely team! #devrellyf #nomad

    @ericscheid @yow_oz @ctosummit They left it open a little longer for stragglers. 🙂

    Watching @DeveloperWil kick off tonight’s #WPSyd. It appears I’m doing a lightning talk with about 15min notice. 😅 https://t.co/yiAFJrexI0

    @Reidyd You would LOVE this talk by the way. ☺️

    @mark_sabbatical @yow_oz @Reidyd You’ve offended him. (We are snobby knitters. Lincraft and Spotties… noooo.)

    Sneak peek of my final #frocktober dress too! 😆 https://t.co/Ge3LfCO9Xq

    RT @developerjack: “My website can vote!” By @web_goddess at #WCSyd! https://t.co/sFOygoyhN5

    #frocktober day 31: Washi dress, made by BOBA FROCK herself. Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻 https://t.co/RsFryLnd7p https://t.co/y4enxmgnWw

    Whoa. @Notionalseams YOU ARE AMAAAAAZING!! 😍 https://t.co/3tGDBTPIZc

    @Notionalseams Wait, is yours a Photoshop?? Mine was a real helmet. 😂

    @FakeSamRitchie Well, now it’s my actual job. That helps. The trick is limiting it to just 3 nights a week.

    Halloween tradition with my Linus. “If you try and hold my hand I’LL SLUG YOU!” https://t.co/Dlb9Z9acKm https://t.co/JYeH2VXVXZ

    @FakeSamRitchie I promise I will make it to one in the next six months. 🙂

    @knitterjp Some interesting cables (ribbing?) happening there!

    RT @TheAmyDance: I’m convinced that the best qualities to have as a software engineer are humility & self awareness.

    @randomknits Dr. Amy is limping this morning and favouring back leg. No idea why. Just called vet to see what I should do. 🙁

    @randomknits She’s moving better now. I wonder if she just landed on it awkwardly this morning or something.

    RT @loveannikajo: Halloween shenanigans with A. Ham and Martha Washington’s cat. That’s true. @Lin_Manuel @HamiltonMusical #Hamilween #Hami…

    The #Hamilween posts are everything. GAHHHH. LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS DRESSED UP AS AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES!

  • Halloween tradition with my Linus. “If you try and hold my hand I’LL SLUG YOU!”

  • #frocktober day 31: Washi dress, made by BOBA FROCK herself. Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @_zouhir @SydPWA Nice one!

    #frocktober day 30: Mabel dress from @colettepatterns, made by me! https://t.co/QGuCvpkis6 https://t.co/Bewh3YsOIA

    Current #frocktober tally: 15 storebought; 15 made by me! Only ONE MORE to go!

  • #frocktober day 30: Mabel dress from @colettepatterns, made by me!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @simonraikallen @Frocktober @GRobilliard @_brigita_ @Yarna_ @DarrenNolan_ @emd3737 Not yet. Next week when it’s done!

    #frocktober day 29: Washi dress, made by me! https://t.co/6U9yMbWFD2 https://t.co/TApREuecgJ

    @FarshadNayeri I don’t quilt very much. Are you thinking of knitting? I’m a Renaissance woman.

    @sophiegllghr what happened to it?!

    Lunch at the Tramsheds. https://t.co/qFnvKEK4PU https://t.co/HwLCLYpP0a

  • Lunch at the Tramsheds.

  • #frocktober day 29: Washi dress, made by me!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    I love that there are pro athlete geeks now. https://t.co/AaIunkaA1X

    @nicwinton Awww, look at Vanya! Miss you guys.

    #frocktober day 28: dress by Dangerfield, @welovecolors tights, Blunnies https://t.co/8OGlwuuNZb https://t.co/60raRC3PwT

    Don’t forget – you can still donate to Frocktober! (I’m ~$150 short of last year’s total. I’d ❤️ to surpass it!) https://t.co/oHlxLOaLeu

    Weekly Meetup Wrap – four events in one week! https://t.co/mPmsX0ye76 #designingproducts @sydphp #equalityhacks @sparkfestivalau https://t.co/s7qtfF1tuv

    @nicwinton @nikyoudale He looks like he’s *really* enjoying that.

    @darthted 👏

    RT @SheStartsAU: .@SheStartsAU will #FindFundAccelerate 10 female entrepreneurs & launch their startups. Applications close 31 Oct! https:/…

    @DarrenNolan_ Not quite! Need to get about $1300 to top last year.

    @DarrenNolan_ Whoa, thanks! You didn’t have to do that – some others came in too. Now I’ve smashed it!!

    Wow, I’ve SMASHED last year’s @Frocktober record! Thanks recent donors: @GRobilliard @_brigita_ @Yarna_ @DarrenNolan_ and @emd3737’s Mum 😀

    Five years ago… Gal Gadot’s got nothin’ on me! #heroes #happyhalloween https://t.co/t7m4npLUDY (Photo by @knitterjp aka Princess Leia!) https://t.co/f8iFzqOXem

    RT @yow_oz: Need an Introduction to Clojure? @stuartsierra’s upcoming #yow16 workshop is the one for you https://t.co/hNo0rb1s3H

    Original Emoji Set Added to MoMA – NEAT! I have a great urge to knit them into a modern fairisle jumper. @glasnt https://t.co/52NDjTKXNW

    RT @kcm74: Thought I posted this earlier today, but don’t see it in my feed now, and is worth re-posting regardless: https://t.co/ukrua9gi38

  • Weekly Meetup Wrap

    The 2016 YOW! Conference is coming soon. Don’t wait to get your tickets – Melbourne is already sold out!

    This week I attended four different meetups in Sydney, all very different! The first was the second Equality Hacks Think Tank, held at the Elabor8 offices. This recently formed group was based on a similar project in Victoria called BoldMoves, with a goal of coming up with “safe-to-fail” experiments to increase diversity in tech. Jody Podbury facilitated as two groups explored ideas (many of which had been fleshed out ideas and experiments.

    (Men of Sydney! We need you to join this group! We can’t do it alone.)

    The second meetup I attended was Designing Products as part of the Sydney Spark Festival. This was also their second ever meetup, the first one happening two years ago! The meetup was hosted by the fine folks at Web Directions, and it was quite a full house.

    The first speaker was Lauren Bedford, Head of Product Design at Expert 360. Lauren talked us through the top five lessons she learned being a product designer at a startup. My favourite was that startups do, in fact, have tech debt! She also talked about the tension between being a designer who likes to get things perfect and a product manager who needs to deliver quickly.

    The second speaker was Buzz Usborne, Design Lead at Atlassian. Buzz also walked us through the things he learned over the course of his career. He said that designers all share the same frustrations even in bigger startups: no team is perfect; and there’s never enough time or budget. My favourite quote from his talk: “As a designer, it’s your job to make customers feel AWESOME.”

    This meetup is a great new addition to the Sydney community. Thankfully the organisers say the next one is scheduled for January, so we won’t have to wait another two years. 🙂

    The next event was also part of the Spark Festival – the Women in Tech Breakfast at Gravity Coworking. It was an early start, but the lovely coffee and catering helped!

    The speaker was Lisa Martens, Director of Market Insights at Squiz. Lisa’s talk was nominally about personal branding, but really it was about a time when she realised her internal self-perception didn’t line up with how others perceived her. She was in a funk, and since she didn’t have six months “to quit her job and pull an Eat Pray Love,” she did something else entirely: she signed up for a boxing program and fought an amateur bout.

    Honestly, at eight in the morning, the last thing I was expecting was “women in tech Fight Club”! But it was amazing. Lisa told us about her challenges along the way – learning the “systems” that would allow her to survive the training and the fight; dealing with friends and family who were less than supportive; a round of food poisoning that set her back a week; and her nerves as the big day approached. We were all on the edge of our seats until she revealed the outcome – she won her fight! She told us how it affected her self-confidence and her willingness to back herself in her professional life. As she put it, “The things we work hard for – we should celebrate those victories.” It was an amazing and inspirational talk, and judging by the number of questions afterwards, everyone found is just as fascinating as I did.

    The last event of the week was SydPHP, held at the Hey You offices in Surry Hills. The speaker was Katie McLaughlin, Operations Engineer at Ambiata. Katie was giving her talk on “The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption” (aka The Emoji Talk), and it did not disappoint! (Slides are here.)

    Katie taught us all about the importance of using Unicode and the problems caused by legacy systems that don’t support it. As she put it, there are lots of people in the world who can’t even enter their names in some systems because they involve non-ASCII characters. She also told us about  the history of emojis and how new emojis are added to the standard every year. (Yay for the Female Technologist emoji!) We also learned about Zero Width Joiners, and how they allow for emoji to be combined in different ways (like making a rainbow flag or allowing for different skin tones). There were heaps of questions afterwards and a lot of laughter.