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Month: September 2017

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Thanks to @TroveAustralia, just tracked down another Roald Dahl essay I’d never read before! It’s… cynical. 🙁 https://t.co/X1zTN3lkHl

    RT @OhNoSheTwitnt: Most of the time lately, Twitter is very bad, but for a brief moment today, I enjoyed myself. https://t.co/R86YHiV4zn

    @damncabbage I actually said “soll-der” during an intro at @yow_conf Connected and got a DM from @mark_sabbatical congratulating me on it. 🙂

    @damncabbage But it’s taken me years to get to that point.

    I made dinner! Paleo Salisbury Steak, potato/pumpkin mash, and garlic chard. https://t.co/N6Amcc6P55 https://t.co/889skwwasd

    @polleyg @Spotify Dropkick Murphys FTW. 🤘

    Mr. Peanutbutter just wants everyone to be happy and to like him. Is that so wrong? (This show is WRECKING ME, of course.) #BojackHorseman

  • I made dinner! Paleo Salisbury Steak, potato/pumpkin mash, and garlic chard.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @unixbigot Break a leg! (PS I caught your cold.)

    Happy birthday @jpofoz! https://t.co/yHb7xP6DHG https://t.co/ccCsVHXj4Q

    I think @jpofoz was happy with her birthday dessert. 😂 https://t.co/RMzWQePLAR https://t.co/2H24e0SRgA

    RT @TheRegister: ‘Dear diversity hire…’ Amazon’s weapons-grade fail in recruitment emails to women techies https://t.co/o1tVqtkohu

    I suspect @spotify’s Your Time Capsule is less neural network and more “single line of SQL,” but damn if it isn’t working for me. #nostalgia https://t.co/UQsFBNrPJz

    RT @mobywhale: 📝 I wrote about why it’s important for companies to hire juniors. https://t.co/AIo5xWsD5o

  • I think @jpofoz was happy with her birthday dessert. 😂

  • Happy birthday @jpofoz!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @mcflydesign: So we quietly launched #CanvaPrint down under https://t.co/3gQcJxjmSC – get 30% off with the code GANGSTAPRINT 😎

    @agiledigital @delitescere Ooh, thanks for the intro! I’m definitely hoping to get to some tech meetups in Canberra in the future. @aussielunix is down there now too!

    @i386 About time! That was a neverending holiday.

    A lot of blood, sweat, and CSS cursing went into this. Feedback welcome! https://t.co/tE2xapIDDy

    @nxdnz @vertis How did the Iron Throne turn out??!

    @mmastertheone 😱 I wonder if the prices are comparable to the official store (ie super exxy)…

    @jeffblankenburg Quite possibly! You can drop me an email at kris at https://t.co/WZkpdZdP14 if you like.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    I’m all about the future of wearable tech… but not garments that you can only wash 10 times. 😵 https://t.co/c30gRpkKqN

    @jnowland Perhaps if you consume enough Soylent, you don’t actually perspire anymore. 🤔

    Yesterday I was congratulating myself on making it through cold and flu season unscathed.

    Today – not so much. 🤒😭

    @RMcKergow Coincidentally, yes. 🙂

    @boundvariable See, if I were operating at full efficiency, I would’ve made that joke myself.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    My @jewelbots Pomodoro timer works! I’ve just put it up on Github here: https://t.co/bJVfqXzxEY. 💎🤖🍅⏱

    @nconnaughton Niall. 😑

    YES. Incidentally, @FutureDirectors have open scholarships to help women get their CVs board-ready. (I’ve applied.) Thanks @bigyahu for tip! https://t.co/4j1BttnenH

    @paulangov @SEEK_Geek @robogals Yay! 👋

    RT @paulangov: Awesome to be here @ SEEK Camp. A room full of super bright girls ready to learn all about the world of tech! @SEEK_Geek @ro…

    @mark_sabbatical @bigyahu @FutureDirectors @yow_conf @Lisa_Cumes Nah, not looking to be a founder anytime soon. I don’t have the risk appetite! But advising them… that’s a different story. 🙂

    RT @tobyhede: If you loved the “National Broadband Network”, you’ll love the “Australian Space Agency”.

    Who’s heading to the #yownight with @sveta_isakova in Sydney tonight?

    Big crowd at CBA for #yownight with @sveta_isakova! Mike Chen kicking things off… https://t.co/25aZAAJu8w

    Since it’s from @jetbrains, you know that the tooling for @kotlin is going to be good! @sveta_isakova #yownight https://t.co/izSnDYnSir

    Lots of folks here from the @SydKotlin meetup group! Sign up to find out when they’re meeting next. https://t.co/m0pnn3APMO #yownight https://t.co/8DXEIVcDJp

    Coroutines! Hearing about new feature in @kotlin 1.1 to simplify asynchronous programming. (Hey, that was in my knitting talk!) 😁 #yownight https://t.co/0Mj21EnTwq

    Diving deep on coroutines and threads to provide context on why @kotlin’s async support is so great! #yownight https://t.co/CmUdJUvEI5

    “Kotlin has a suspend function, but it doesn’t SUSPEND FUN!” 😂 @sveta_isakova cracking up the crowd. #yownight https://t.co/rT69eo8RYk

    @samnewman @sveta_isakova Apparently she had that wording on a previous slide, not realising people would find it funny. 🙂

    “Can you cancel a coroutine in @kotlin? Yes, if it’s cancellable.” Pretty sure that’s a zen koan, @sveta_isakova. 🤔 #yownight

    @MichelePlayfair Oh how lovely! I missed it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

    RT @yow_conf: If you’re in Brisbane, you can still catch this #kotlin #yownight tonight. https://t.co/bgzefEP9Hl https://t.co/2mS4inIBcN

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @taradefrancisco I’m so happy to see this, TD. ❤️

    @starbuxman https://t.co/ceHaGEVY7k

    @gilmae Just hypothetically speaking, I assume. 🙂

    This is *begging* to be a Slack emoji, @the_nathanjones. https://t.co/CsSPJTJjLt

    Me: My face feels, like, tired after presenting. I wonder if I over-emote? 🤔

    Checks photos from DDD Perth. Yep. 😂

    https://t.co/4RGAUJcLVa https://t.co/gPEbp73ioh

    @the_nathanjones https://t.co/78JonVR8Zj

    I wrote a blog post about my experience speaking at @DDDPerth two weeks ago. Spoiler: I ❤️ everyone in Perth. https://t.co/FJILEym9mh https://t.co/QWSlUAWGDt

    RT @starbuxman: @web_goddess You’re an epic speaker talking about an epic topic and your presentation reflects that you know that and enjoy…

    RT @LJKenward: A highlight of @DDDPerth for me this year was Kris’s locknote! Dear Network: Get Kris on tour for this talk! 💯💯💯 https://t.c…

    @mobywhale Oh no! I’ve done it a few times, but my veins are crappy do I can’t anymore. I miss the 🍪.

    I am now in 15 different Slack workspaces. Somehow I still get the same amount of emails. This is not the disruptive future I expected.

    @DarrenNolan_ Oh, I’m on board! Poor @owensenior and @darthted don’t know what hit them. 🙂

    @msharp @mobywhale Beef-eating pommie?

    @gilmae I was never an IRCer back in the day. It was AOL Instant Messenger and web forums, baby! In related news, I’m the worst.

    RT @yow_conf: Need a modern twist to #android development w/#Kotlin (concise, safe & expressive)? Join our BNE workshop 28 Sept https://t.c…

    @gilmae Awwwwww. 😍 @randomknits

    @gilmae @randomknits When I studied abroad, I hooked up with a friend who had met his girlfriend in a Cure chat room. (I was a hoochie-mama back then.)

    @gilmae @randomknits That did not end well.

    RT @SydTechLeaders: “What’s that? Another @SydTechLeaders meetup already announced?” YEAH, WE DID. https://t.co/r70OkFdhlL Speakers announc…

    Achievement unlocked: pair programmed with husband without it ending in tears. #babysteps

    @burrsutter Haha, thanks. I suspect it’s a remnant from a lot of amateur theatricals in college and high school. 🎭

    Testing the Pomodoro code we wrote last night for my @jewelbots. So far so good! If it works, I’ll put it up on Github. 😊

    Heard through grapevine – @UberEng is coming to recruit in Sydney for roles in US. Why not set up a local office? I hate the brain drain. 😕

    @malynmawby @Holly_Stephens I’ve got a list of Aussie Tech Women: https://t.co/Oxm7yJZZuB. Also happy to invite to the @GGDSydney Slack channel!

    RT @MichelePlayfair: Are you an under represented speaker in tech reading this and wondering where to start? Hit up @spkeazee https://t.co/…

    @Holly_Stephens Done!

  • DDD Perth 2017

    Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to give the locknote at DDD Perth 2017. DDD stands for “Developer! Developer! Developer!,” and it’s a community-run conference that happens in locations around the world. The goal is to put on an event that anyone can attend, so it’s held on a Saturday and the cost is just $50. The Perth event attracted 330+ attendees and featured 19 speakers across three tracks.

    I actually got to Perth a few days early so I could attend some usergroups and meet with some local contacts. I went to the Fenders meetup as well as the launch of the new Junior Dev Perth group. The latter was incredible – the room was full of 90 energetic attendees, most of whom were just starting out in their careers. Well done to LJ and the JuniorDev team for this much-needed westward expansion!

    Then it was time for DDD Perth! The speaker/sponsor/volunteer drinks were held Friday night at the rooftop bar of The Reveley. It was fun but loud.

    The day of the conference started out really foggy, oddly. Apparently that’s a thing that happens in Perth every now and then?! The morning keynote was Gojko Adzic, straight from YOW! Singapore. He talked about some of the coming challenges for software quality posed by things like the cloud, AI and biometrics – including amusing anecdotes like the one about the DMV system brought down by a set of twins.

    The talks throughout the day were all excellent. My friend Nathan Jones gave a talk called “Death by Good Intentions” that talked about some of the common mistakes and pitfalls he’s seen teams fall into over the course of his career. I especially liked his point about choosing mature technology like PHP over perpetually chasing shiny new things.

    My friend Sam Ritchie also gave an informative, pun-tastic talk called “Flying Solo – lifehack your way to a pants-optional workplace”. It was all about how to quit your job and start your own company. My favourite part was the slide with an actual flowchart to answer the question: “Should you put on pants today?”

    I was lucky to get to meet Patima Tantiprasut earlier this year on a visit (and then again when she came to Sydney with Localhost). She gave a great short talk called “Web, Wellness and Getting Sh*t Done”, all about strategies you can use to prevent mental burnout. Really welcome advice! (Not to mention a nice tie-in to my own talk later in the day…)

    After lunch I saw a few more excellent talks, but to be honest I was more than a little preoccupied with my own looming locknote! I especially liked Donna Edwards’ talk on hiring and retention for diversity, and Christian Prieto’s entertaining presentation on the history and programming challenges of the Atari 2600.

    And then it was time!

    My talk was called “The Campsite Rule – Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It”. The general idea was that a lot of the time, the tech industry feels like a dumpster fire. The temptation to walk away is ever present (especially when shit like this happens). It leads to a lot of us burning out. One of the things that’s been keeping me motivated and engaged is recent years is mentoring, and I wanted to convince the experienced devs in the room to get more involved with guiding the next generation. I included as much practical advice as I could for both prospective mentees and mentors. Yeah, it got a little ranty at times. (There may have even been an F-bomb in there.) But everyone seemed to take it in the right spirit, and I was gratified by how many folks sent me wonderful tweets or wrote blog posts saying how inspiring they found it.

    Some photos from the conference Flickr page:

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    I had to laugh at that stretch of them. I’m a fairly, uh, expressive speaker, I guess you could say. 😂

    My slides are up on Slideshare if you want to take a look, and I’ll share the video when it becomes available. Some of the images are from our recent trip to Yellowstone; some are from Unsplash; and some are from WOCinTech Chat.

    Thank you again to the DDD Perth organisers for inviting me to participate in this wonderful event! It was my first ever keynote, and there were many times over the preceding months where I kicked myself for agreeing to do it. (I’m a procrastinator with a tendency towards constant guilty thoughts, so there was some stress.) I’m so happy I did it though! And I can’t say enough about the tireless volunteers and organisers, and how great a job they did putting this event together. If you ever get a chance to attend or speak at a DDD in the future, you definitely should.