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Month: December 2017

  • I made quesadillas with fresh salsa for lunch!

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    Mentioned to the Snook that I figured out Google Mini could be powered off USB, so I had it set up in my office. 5 seconds later I hear his disembodied voice from it: “GET BACK TO WORK.” 😂

    Gave my first keynote at a tech conference. Travelled to Hong Kong and Singapore by myself. Learned to solder. Replaced a tire tube on my bicycle. 🙂 https://t.co/X1GQVkGXPl

    Oh, and saw bears in Yellowstone and witnessed a total solar eclipse!

    I finished a new shirt last night! “It’s Not a Bug; It’s a Feature.” 😂🐞 Hacked version of @ColettePatterns Sorbetto. https://t.co/qTl4TyFwWk https://t.co/bolpsURmQr

    I’ve actually knitted at the SCG during a New Years Ashes test match, and I still think that’s a shitty, sexist thing to say. https://t.co/9ebtOhdZq5

    @twasink https://t.co/uwWzW1i442

    @twasink You clearly haven’t been to Thursday night pub knitting with my crew.

    @twasink For me, it’s less about motor skill impairment and more to do with knitting patterns with ginormous charts that are difficult to follow while participating in conversation.

    RT @darthted: @web_goddess Became co-organiser of best meetup in Sydney.

    RT @lynnlangit: I’m hiring – looking for subcontractor with Docker expertise on AWS ecosystem. #BioInformatics

    Woo! @linuxconfau is starting to promote some of the Art + Tech miniconf talks. This one is from @HeartOfPluto_. 😊 #LCA2018 https://t.co/6qV3OMSbnB

    Oh hey, that’s pretty much @themaninblue for @canva! https://t.co/x0Jn4QSRQW

    @stufromoz PHOTOS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

    Finally got around to visiting the refurbed Lansdowne, complete with Mary’s 🍔 menu. #hipstertax https://t.co/ILuBojATKl https://t.co/MCcJNrVg14

    Did we stay to see the gig?

    We did not. 😂 https://t.co/xbIfmlnwSX https://t.co/BDRZhJKqst

    @tjbyte Yeah. I wonder what genre they are…

    @FourRedShoes It’s okay, but frankly hasn’t struck me as much better than Maccas!

    @fox I get paid to do it, and I still feel largely like you do. There is very little outside recognition of the emotional labour involved in what we do. It’s exhausting and mostly thankless.

    @hannahcancode @DrJosh9000 Verified cute!

    @darthted I’m sure they were!

    @MelissaKaulfuss @fox My subtweet yesterday about wasting hours trying to impress shitty dudes was mainly about the stress of worrying whether this work – which I enjoy – is ultimately going to hurt my career prospects. Ugh. It sucks.

    Given that I spent 15 minutes today rage-googling how to disable autoplay JWPlayer videos, I have some guesses. https://t.co/6i8ep0tUOp

    @AshKyd @fox The folks who aren’t getting paid need support more than I do. Sponsor their events! Put your hand up to volunteer.

    Wow, the strongest factor in bumblebee die-off has been determined – via Machine Learning, no less! 🐝 https://t.co/HH9bnvSffi

    RT @JuddLegum: Roy Moore denies that he lost the U.S. Senate election, even after Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State certified his opp…

    So wait. While I have constant anxiety over not being seen as having enough hard skills, there are folks in the industry in the opposite situation? That… has not been my observation. https://t.co/DOvCKI0ufk

    Just realised this is a fairly succinct explanation for what my role mostly came to be at Canva. Handy. Saving for future reference. https://t.co/FIgaOjZA59

    @hannahcancode Please do! We need more stories of good stuff that happened in 2017. 🙂

    @joneaves Interesting. Obviously we each only have our own experiences to go by here. I suspect you’re going to be the outlier among my replies though…

    RT @MsAmandaDean: @web_goddess To me, there is a slow move in some areas where it isn’t enough to be a gifted developer, tester etc, if you…

    RT @mattallen: @web_goddess Soft vs hard is bullshit.

    You can learn to code, you can’t unlearn being an asshole.

    Problem is, most places…

    @zarahjutz @UniversalORL Oh gosh, that sucks!

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    Mentioned to the Snook via chat that I discovered the Google Mini could be powered off USB, so I had it set up in my home office. Five seconds later I heard it chime and then his disembodied voice rang out from it: “GET BACK TO WORK.” 😂

    I finished a new shirt last night! “It’s Not a Bug; It’s a Feature.” 😂🐞 Hacked version of @colettepatterns Sorbetto.

    Made my first ever Genius lyric annotation – on an REM song, fittingly!

    Finally got around to visiting the refurbed Lansdowne, complete with Mary’s 🍔 menu. #hipstertax

    Did we stay to see the gig?

    We did not. 😂

    Happy birthday! You’re almost the Baby New Year! 🙂

  • Did we stay to see the gig? We did not. 😂

  • Finally got around to visiting the refurbed Lansdowne, complete with Mary’s 🍔 menu. #hipstertax

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    @drwitty_knitter Something I’ve been thinking about a lot. I downloaded a book on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. That’s a start. It’s a lot more immediately achievable than “smash the patriarchy,” I suppose. 🙂

    @tobyhede This was seriously one of my favourite things in the new films. Random women and PoC among the First Order. YES! We can be villains too!

    Nice! Just noticed some new buttons in Spotify. https://t.co/NN2sV3GS1e https://t.co/QL78Vueb3m

    Brisbane friends – anyone looking for a web developer? Wade is looking and comes highly recommended! https://t.co/G2dLeqYmEW

    @gilmae I didn’t know you got one! Jealous. 🙂 @KnitYak

    @drwitty_knitter It’s very, very rarely 1:1 interactions, which rather rules out that approach.

    @ChiefDisrupter @NicoleWill100 @bigyahu For certain values of “working”. 🙂

    @drwitty_knitter It’s less about specific people and more about trying to fit into systems I dislike, which is why I think the most effective approach is to change my thinking.

    RT @alicegoldfuss: Two statements that are both true:

    – Tech industry titles are non-standardized and offer no solid proof of experience o…

    Dammit. I upgraded my 6+ two months ago and traded it in to Apple. I would’ve gone for the battery upgrade! https://t.co/i7AswsqDYG

    @imdominating @Jennie_Basset You’re back on Twitter! I was worried about you. 🙂

    @randomknits Happy birthday Harley!!

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    @minxdragon 🙁 That sucks.

    DOMESTIC GODDESS. https://t.co/2EtR9h8vYI https://t.co/RNoKmOUy6E

    @the_nathanjones Yup. From scratch, with pecans.

    RT @greydnls: I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again.

    The single most important deliverable of a senior engineer is more senior engineers.

    @the_nathanjones I’ve been here so long I don’t know any other price at this point. 🙂

    Spent the whole day gaming. Started and finished @LucaRedwood’s 10000000 (SO FUN), and then got 2 hours into @NightInTheWoods. Feel a bit cross eyed now. 🤪

    @mmastertheone @LucaRedwood I bought the Boat sequel too! Going to try to save it until the weekend.

    @the_nathanjones We get big bags at Costco. Cheaper than Coles at least!

    @zoeydoesnttweet Hm. I was keen to see it. Is it worth it?

    @zoeydoesnttweet It looked sexy and dreamy and arty and Italian in the previews. That’s what I’m after (plus cute boys kissing).

    The problem with having hot cinnamon rolls for brekkie is somebody has to get up 45min before everybody else to put them in the oven.

    @canva Bug report! Diversity and Inclusion policy page is password protected. https://t.co/809PLjcbCf

    Time to wake up the Snook. 😊 https://t.co/LJMUAtwTgD

    @carlfish Slightly disappointed in the texture. I think I needed different flour. Didn’t get stretchy/chewy enough. (Still taste great though!)

    @snookca Wrong Snook. 🙂

    @canva Sent.

    Ate two cinnamon rolls and drank a cup of coffee. Heart racing. Time to go to work, I guess? 🙂

    @jenwburn Gorgeous!!

    This sums up post-conference depression too. Finally ready to get back on the horse today! https://t.co/tpIInkOVYW

    Depressing realisation: if I had back all the hours I’ve spent trying to impress shitty dudes, I’d have changed the world by now. 😕

    @the_nathanjones @samnewman I showed the Snook, who did honours chem. No idea. We’d be curious to hear the answer!

    @TheRealBnut It’s sweet of you to say so, at any rate. 🙂

    @lorentzframe I’m mulling over this metaphor now. Do most conductors start out playing instruments though? (Speaking as a “conductor” frustrated by the tech industry’s insistence that they be able to play every instrument…)

    @ChiefDisrupter @NicoleWill100 @bigyahu I saw them piled up all over the place in Singapore earlier this year. https://t.co/fIxPUi3gbH

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    DOMESTIC GODDESS.

    Time to wake up the Snook. 😊

  • DOMESTIC GODDESS.

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    @pwcc @KathyReid The Hollywood thing popped into my head too. But it’s not a perfect analogy. Tech means we can work anywhere. I’ve met folks who work on digital effects for Hollywood movies right here in Sydney.

    @pwcc @KathyReid As someone who didn’t grow up here, I always wonder how much cultural cringe plays into decisions to head overseas…

    Oh! Turns out that others have written about cultural cringe and the local tech industry for a while now. https://t.co/QUxbb1ZO2k https://t.co/QZhMaYcv1q

    @samthor Seriously! 😂

    @joshprice This, but with turkey and pecans: https://t.co/T39wNgE888

    RT @ekp: Time for Tech Firms to Take Responsibility for the Havoc They Wrought: @sw on prioritizing ethics and empathy https://t.co/0MsCOxD…

    RT @johnmaeda: I like to think that PHP stands for “People Helping People” as I have learned in the #WordPress community — that attitude pr…

    @mmastertheone Oof.

    TIL Roald Dahl was a big Thatcher supporter back in the 80’s. 😐 https://t.co/mD7oLWYq5K

    We are through the looking glass, people! 😳 https://t.co/XK09fQnLxj https://t.co/sUX406XJU5

    @spidie Excellent! Most of the program is online. I think we’re set for everything. 🙂

    Dinner a la Snook: beer-basted “boar” ribs (from the World of Warcraft cookbook! 😂), champ, sweetcorn, and beer https://t.co/oQnYJahDiq https://t.co/rGP8jEWRSX

    guess who got a Google home mini today

    Interesting. Doesn’t include any capitalisation or punctuation. I’m also curious whether it’s limited to my voice… https://t.co/01HDN5FXzI

    @tinypang @JamesStewartNYT @NewYorker Oh god, that’s lovely. (I was in a production of Fiddler once. We didn’t have a real violinist for that part.)

    @AshKyd We’ve had a Home for a while now. Today’s experimentation was around setting up separate users, creating some IFTTT integrations, etc.

    @AshKyd The usefulness has superceded my privacy concerns, to the point where I’ve just put the Mini in the bedroom. 😂

    RT @maetl: If you’re coming to LinuxConf AU in Jan, check out the Art/Tech miniconf—software in the morning, hardware in the afternoon.

    I’…

    RT @unixbigot: New year’s resolution: https://t.co/j7a0RpCFn7

    @spidie Indeed. It was his Christmas gift from my mother! https://t.co/J7rIszd6X1

    When you say “It’s country music time” in my house, Google Home now starts playing “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” 😂

    There’s an IFTTT applet to have your Google Home send an emergency email blast triggered by a secret phrase. I’m depressed that this is needed in the world. 🙁 https://t.co/3xJzkNhYib

    @mmastertheone It’s a little mean spirited in places, but it’s largely accurate.

    @fox Well done! Can’t wait to see the Program.