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Month: February 2018

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @yow_conf My guest room has availability but rates are climbing fast. 😜

    TFW you go to a meeting and realise it’s with an ex-colleague from 17 years ago! (Hey @codepo8 – @mattsharpe says hi!) https://t.co/16xKlBwXzB

    IT FOLLOWS MY MOUSE. 😵 Amazeballs… @soxyface https://t.co/9HusHmUOkC

    RT @beneltham: Penny Wong just marched into Employment estimates and extracted an apology from Michaelia Cash. Got it, then left. Stone col…

    RT @yow_conf: Contain yourself – literally. You can’t avoid Docker, K8s for long https://t.co/CMr7cCbeEc

    @joannaferrari48 How lovely to see you pop up on my stream! I hope 2018 is off to a good start for you. Let’s catch up sometime. 🙂 (PS I love that dress!)

    Photoshop wizards: can any of you turn me into the Deal With It meme? Bonus points for animation. It’s a present for @hannahyanfield. 😂 https://t.co/Bqw9bNASYt https://t.co/S7uCFJjhmB

    @LJKenward @Asher_Wolf Gahhh, that’s so awesome! Sorry I won’t be there. 🙁

    RT @yow_conf: We’re still looking for volunteers to help us out at our upcoming #yownight with @TacticalGrace. 1 for Sydney Mar 6, 2 for Pe…

    @joannaferrari48 I am travelling for the next couple weeks, but I will email you when I get back! 👍

    @msharp @sydjs LOL. Did @canva have to put a gate in front of the climbing wall, @crankymate?!

    @the_patima Oh, fun people! Hello @JakeGinnivan and @LucindaBurtt and other person whose name escapes me at the moment. Sadly, I am packing to go to Perth tomorrow.

    Sent my Mom a link to my Ignite talk today.

    Me: Warning: I do say “shit” a couple times.
    Mom: What, like that’s supposed to surprise me?

    😂

    @randomknits Look at that sleepy dawg!!

    @unixbigot @girlgerms My house is riddled with them. Give in. I’m actually debating taking one with me tomorrow when I travel. They already hear everything I say at home; why not on the road too? 🙃🔫

    @AbstractCode @girlgerms @unixbigot I wrote a blog post about everything we use ours for! https://t.co/JRTOBWQsN2

    @MVEG001 @sauramaia @glasnt @KathyReid I don’t do much in the way of crochet. My friend @RoseRed_Shoes would be the type of person who knows this!

    @girlgerms @AbstractCode @unixbigot My husband has been working on a new one. I can now say “Hey Google – it’s getting hot in here!” and the AC (which is not WiFi enabled!) turns on!

    @girlgerms @AbstractCode @unixbigot Involving a Raspberry Pi, infrared blaster, and IFTTT!

    @unixbigot @girlgerms @AbstractCode Well, in my case the market did solve it, but it involves replacing our AC with one a lot more expensive!

    RT @GuardianAus: Bill Gates: cryptocurrencies have ’caused deaths in a fairly direct way’ https://t.co/zHNLB8efay

    Heading off on another adventure. See you soon, Perth! https://t.co/VTONkYbEgC https://t.co/LWCnc6LMdI

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    @rem_ram @sarahpannz @gem_sherwood Awww. 😊 BTW my company @yow_conf has a speaker development program for women! Entry is here: https://t.co/DL1IidZg6W. 10 women get flown to Sydney for free day of training with Damian Conway. No strings – just trying to increase number of Oz women tech speakers!

    My sister @carbolicious just sent me this. I think she was celebrating it, while I myself see it as a sure sign of the End Times. https://t.co/yneb20FSgn

    RT @Harkaway: Here is a thing I will tell you that is real. I do not often talk about my kids online, because they are small and they do no…

    RT @randyprine: The guy who said he’d enter a school to save *your* kid. https://t.co/oCCrijCD9U

    RT @TonyFifoot: @evanderkoogh explains how unexpected things happen all the time. They’re not failures- don’t manage and govern like they a…

    Popcorn Negroni. #hipster https://t.co/mt5HBLAljy https://t.co/5OreT5DVWi

    Another day, another dude blocked on @meetup who thinks that a group “for professional women in technology careers” is for making new lady friends. 😡 https://t.co/RIvYGrI8wY

    My @ignitesydney talk is now online! https://t.co/Bqw9bNStQ1 It’s 5 minutes of me singing, explaining how eclipses work, and helping you plan your 2028 Sydney eclipse party. 🌘❤️ https://t.co/o2riJVEgxF

  • Popcorn Negroni. #hipster

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @lynnlangit Sprechen Sie Deutsch, meine schöne Freundin??

    RT @TacticalGrace: With the widespread adoption of functional programming, we need to think about how to teach it & bring more devs on boar…

    Weekly Meetup Wrap – February 25, 2018 – FIVE tech events last week with more folks than I can possibly tag! https://t.co/qw7Kbj3TBA @yufanghua @shestarts @WAWSydney @DeveloperSteve @KenScambler @philnash @JohnSietsma @MeasureCampMelb @ScottSunderl4nd @MoeMKiss @johannux …

    @charis ❤️👏

    RT @yow_conf: Perth, don’t forget our first #yownight with @eleybourn is this week! Register at https://t.co/x5j3xgd1gH

    RT @JFriedhoff: 🚨 LOST WAGE RAMPAGE is out NOW!! 🚨

    You play as 2 shopgirls who realize they’ve been paid less than the men, & decide to ma…

    @Malarkey Ugh, you’re killing me. I may have to watch the Towering Inferno tonight for research.

    @sydjs It’s the night before I head off for two weeks… so was planning to chill at home. The March one, I promise!

    @developerjack @jeamland @vmbrasseur How do I sponsor? 😂

  • Weekly Meetup Wrap – February 25, 2018

    Does 2018 seem to be accelerating for anyone else? I went to FIVE tech events last week. 😲

    The first one was GraphDB Sydney – a rare Monday meetup. After a long hiatus, the group reformed late last year and, though it’s still small, it seems to be well supported by Neo4j and Ansarada.

    Josh Yu from Neo4j gave an excellent overview of APOC – which stands for “Awesome Procedures On Cypher.” Cypher is Neo4j’s graph query language, and APOC is a library of more than 300 custom procedures that add cool functionality. Josh ran through a live demo that used clustering to aid in financial fraud detection. I learned a heap from this talk – including that yes, the founder of Neo4j was a big fan of The Matrix. 🙂

    On Tuesday evening I headed over to BlueChilli for the SheStarts Mentor Mixer. This is a program to support startups with women founders, and this is my second year as an advisor (along with some amazing peers). I met with two of the founders to hear about their projects and offer them advice. Interestingly, both women I spoke to asked me whether I thought they should do a coding course. (They were both non-coders.) My advice is that something basic like NodeGirls would be a good idea to give them confidence in working with developers – demystifying the black magic of coding, as it were – as well as empathy and understanding for the skills those folks will bring to the team. I also really enjoyed catching up with some of the alumni from the first SheStarts cohort, like Jessica Christiansen-Franks from Neighbourlytics.

    Wednesday I headed over to Web Analytics Wednesday for what proved to be a very popular session!

    A panel of four experts spoke about all things content engagement: Dominic Laforgia, Head of Data & Insights at Fairfax; Mackenzie Stratford, Digital Analyst and Product Manager at News Life Media; Leon Bombotas, Chief Data Officer & Founder of Newsroom.ly; and Nathan Scully, Senior Analytics Manager at Oneflare. Meetup organiser Simon Rumble fielded questions from the audience on whether dashboards are important, what metrics are useful for different types of businesses, all the different platforms publishers have to support, and how they plan to handle future technologies like “zero UI” interfaces. (Spoiler – nobody really has a plan for that last one.) Great discussion!

    Thursday saw me heading to Melbourne for the first time this year. I love hearing what’s happening in the Victorian tech community! Thursday night I went along to the Melbourne Haskell Users Group to learn about “serverless Haskell” from Alexey Kotlyarov (speaker at Lambda Jam 2017!) and David Overton from Seek.

    The project came out of a Seek Hackathon last year, and it involves wrapping your Haskell code in an executable with Node.js and deploying it to AWS Lambda. They’re already using it in production! Pull requests are welcome. 🙂

    Not going to lie though… The best part of MHUG was going out to dinner with a dozen other folks afterwards for a Malaysian feast!

    Friday night I had an unofficial DevRel meetup with some of the awesome folks in the Melbourne community. It was a floating bar, and there were a lot of beers, french fries, laughs, and late night burgers. (Have I mentioned lately how much I love my job?) ⛵🍻❤

    Saturday was the main event of the week for me: MeasureCamp Melbourne! This “unconference” style event brought together lots of folks from the data engineering, analytics, product, and UX worlds for a full day of talks and discussions.

    After the morning welcome and kickoff, attendees were invited to propose sessions and tack them up on a large schedule for the day. With 5 rooms and 8 slots, there was room for up to 40 different sessions! I decided on the spur of the moment to give a talk on giving “Better Tech Talks – How to do public speaking without sucking.” 🙂

    For the first session, I went to see Scott Sunderland, founder of Tribalism, try to convince us that humans are better than computers. Scott argued that there are things humans are really good at – like filtering out unnecessary information, making intuitive leaps – that computers just can’t do. He also made the analysts in the room happy by predicting that their jobs are the least likely to be automated away in the near future!

    The second talk I went to was from Val Lyashov at Envato talking about how they do analytics. I was impressed that Val presented with just a whiteboard – no slides! He gave a good overview of how they tie their various systems together and answered a lot of questions from the audience. (Oh, and they’re hiring!)

    My last talk before lunch was my new friend Mike Robins from Snowplow. Mike was speaking about a very important topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These regulations come into effect on May 25, 2018 for any online business that collects personal data on users in the European Union. It outlines some very specific things you need to do, and the worry is that very few Australian businesses are prepared for it! (My takeaway was: Damn, I’m really happy I’m not in charge of an online business anymore!)

    I spent the first session after lunch frantically preparing for my own talk! Soon it was time to head to the room…

    I essentially went through all the points from my recent LinkedIn article on public speaking. I ended up with about 20 attendees, and they seemed to really enjoy and get a lot out of it! Hopefully some of them will be inspired to volunteer to give talks at their local meetups and events in the future. 🙂

    The session after mine was a tag team presentation from Priscilla Cheung and Moe Kiss from THE ICONIC. I loved this one! They talked about the importance of good UX when presenting your data, and they walked through 10 tips for making it look better.

    I also loved when Moe got opinionated about pie charts. 😂

    In the last block of sessions, I went to see Sarah Crooke from Data Runs Deep talk about how she uses R to combine data from web and mobile analytics. I’ve seen a few talks on R lately, but most of have been from super experienced data engineers. It was nice to see someone who’s learned it recently and who could give advice to those of us less experienced with the language!

    The last talk I saw was actually a repeat for me – it was Johann de Boer  giving his talk on predictive targeted marketing using machine learning. I saw it at Web Analytics Wednesday back in January, but I felt honour bound to support someone from the Sydney community (especially since he’d caught the train to Melbourne the previous night!).

    Many thanks and congratulations to the MeasureCamp organiser for putting on a fantastic event! 👏

    Other Stuff

    I’m heading off to Perth, Bangalore, and Singapore over the next two weeks, so my meetup adventures are going to be on hold for a bit!

    • It’s all happening at YOW! right now. We’ve got SEVEN upcoming YOW! Nights happening across Australia in the coming weeks. Hope to see you at one of them!
    • QUICK. There is a Humble Bundle of functional programming books, but it finishes up early Tuesday morning! I just bought it…
    • Don’t forget that we have two upcoming YOW! events in Sydney with open Calls for Presentations! YOW! Data will be held on May 14-15 and is looking for speakers on data-driven technologies and applications. YOW! Lambda Jam is coming up on May 21-23 and is all about functional programming. Special note: This year we’ve added on an extra day for LJ that will be a full-day workshop aimed at providing an “on-ramp” to FP. (If you can’t make it to Tony’s 3-day course, you should definitely sign up for the LJ one!)

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    @darthted Congrats!

    @Astarael Looks YUM

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    Learning from @ScottSunderl4nd why humans are better than computers. “Do you feel like everyone in senior management is talking about building an AI model?” YES. #MeasureCamp https://t.co/x4gM80jOYI

    IT business analysts, architects, and system designers are rated to have the least chance of being lost to automation. Good to know! #measurecamp https://t.co/QSDqz0vprb

    @mmastertheone Lego has pistols?!

    @betsybookworm I have a sneaking suspicion I am going to need bifocals soon enough, so I’ve avoided tatting. Wayyyy too eensy for me!

    Next session – learning about how @envato does analytics from @plstr. #measurecamp https://t.co/ZpIbHjP5LO

    @unixbigot This is fascinating stuff. Some really good advice here I will be sharing back to the @yow_conf team to make our events more inclusive.

    @minxdragon https://t.co/9BpzgxfuMy – it was a breakfast Cubano with a fried egg on it. Very good!!

    “Are most of your users on desktop?” “We don’t have any IE users; let’s just start with that.” 😂 @plstr #measurecamp

    Learning about GDPR from Mike Robins from @snowflake_data. If your website has users in the EU and you collect personal information, you need to know about this. #measurecamp https://t.co/BsFCM7Vp3B https://t.co/bp7mo1Ro78

    “De-identified data… The Australian government has had some difficulties with this one.” #measurecamp @snowflake_data https://t.co/5jTntr3lr2

    Interesting. GDPR says you can’t tell a user “here’s how we’re going to use your data, and if you’re not cool with that, don’t use the service. ” That’s not a real choice. Need to offer them access but with reduced features/experience. #measurecamp @snowflake_data

    “Are there any good example websites that are GDPR ready?” “Nope. Everybody seems to be putting it off as along as possible!” Ouch! 😳 #measurecamp @snowflake_data https://t.co/dZEVjhwyij

    Ready to go in the @data_true room! Now I just have to see if anyone actually turns up. 😟 #measurecamp https://t.co/gr91g9ZAGB

    @ScottSunderl4nd @MeasureCampMelb I look like I’m doing the robot in that photo. 😂🤖

    I swear there were actually like 20+ people in the room! 😂 #measurecamp https://t.co/j9suqus1kF

    On the importance and challenge of having good data visualisations – @MoeMKiss and @prischcheung from @theiconicau! #measurecamp https://t.co/qI3TIFZGVq

    Great, practical tips for presenting data better. “Ink is for numbers.” Use McKinsey titles – where the insight is the title. 👏 #measurecamp @MoeMKiss @prischcheung https://t.co/p9SiPWMyOL

    “I don’t want to be racist against pie charts… but we can’t be friends if you use pie charts.” ❤️😂 #measurecamp @MoeMKiss @prischcheung https://t.co/BVMHfZNBSV

    If you’d like notes from my talk on giving better tech presentations, check out this article! https://t.co/Rr2aYrJSQH #measurecamp

    @AndyyHope @envato @plstr Alien tentacle. 👽🦑

    RT @unixbigot: When you get home tonight, enable “two factor authentication” on your gmail (or other cloud email). Don’t forget! “Two f…

    Sarah from @datarunsdeep on combining app and website data using R. Looking forward to a beginner intro to R! #measurecamp https://t.co/zrPPEClEi1

    Protip: be careful how many variables you use in your Venn diagrams. 😂💡 @datarunsdeep #measurecamp https://t.co/tHFZlqtyYR

    Supporting the Sydney data community by coming to see @johannux’s talk a second time! Predictive segmenting of website users for targeted marketing. #measurecamp https://t.co/6EUMMDIABr

    RT @ameel: Good to see 31% of speakers at @MeasureCampMelb are women. Much lower than it should be, of course, but slightly higher than exp…

    Explaining clustering in 2 dimensions is straightforward. “I don’t know how to draw in 12 dimensions though, so that’s where the computer comes in!” 🤓 @johannux #measurecamp https://t.co/Fv9LKpq2Wu

    Word clouds are a great way of visualising the clusters of users that your segmentation produces. #measurecamp @johannux https://t.co/AuMQOtr0eX

    @mmastertheone The speaker just recommended that to me too!

    RT @shannoncoulter: Reminder that Amazon doesn’t just distribute 36+ NRA-produced original series via Amazon Fire. It also hosts an Infowar…

    @evanderkoogh @mattallen I’m already retired. I mean, if I won the lottery tomorrow this is the job I’d be doing, for my own fun and fulfilment. I’m very lucky. 😊

    A nice shout out to all the women who spoke today at #measurecamp. From 0% last year to 30%+ this year! #measurecamp https://t.co/VQKo4K85mn

    RT @Amys_Kapers: So I have some exciting news to share with the Twitterverse:
    As of last week, I’m now working as a Developer Evangelist fo…

    @shermozle Really? That stat came from the organisers!! https://t.co/pA7aAvLXbD

    @MeasureCampMelb @shermozle Ahhhh, my bad!

    RT @mrnickharvey: If everyone wanting tighter gun control in America followed Emma Gonzáles (@Emma4Change), she would have more followers t…

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    Melbourne is definitely a cooler city, but there also seem to be a lot more smokers. 😒

    @melissa_loh I’m only comparing against Sydney, really.

    I forgive you the rain, Melbourne. 😍 #cubano https://t.co/fU3wpNH3jm https://t.co/0bjoAI9qZM

    @nickzoic @KenScambler Just wandering down from about 5 tonight, I’d say. I’ll tweet when I get there. 😉

    @Doctor_Astro Wait, you’re working for Hyperloop now? I somehow missed that. That’s awesome – congratulations!

    @candeira Not the most authentic Cubano, perhaps, especially with the fried egg, but damn it was good.

    Can’t wait to get back to Perth next week. Hope to see some of you there! https://t.co/B6MT2KbFNX

    @battlepanda_au Oh fantastic! Would be great to have you there.

    @battlepanda_au Do you know if they’ll be filming it? I should probably ask my contact at BW.

    At Arbory – lurking and trying to find a table! @KenScambler

    @KenScambler Yep. We got a table! Come down the ramp – I’m right by it

    Earlier tonight. Part of the great DevRel summit… 😂 @DeveloperSteve @evanderkoogh https://t.co/eFM9k8Pmfm

    @JedWatson Animal. (Declare amnesty. Delete them all.)

    Excited to attend my first @MeasureCampMelb today! The crowd is gathering… #measurecamp https://t.co/hd6WBXsMqP

    RT @evanderkoogh: As of last week I have joined the team at @yow_conf as a Developer Evangelist part-time. I have always been a massive fan…

    RT @MeasureCampMelb: And they’re off! Board prep begins #MeasureCamp https://t.co/HT6PN14Fka

    That’s freaking beautiful @betsybookworm. I’m in awe! https://t.co/tl2K86Lv0u

    Decisions, decisions… (I’m speaking on how to give a tech talk without sucking at 2:15!) #measurecamp https://t.co/4MivO6AQvx

  • I forgive you the rain, Melbourne. 😍 #cubano

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    @katelemayands @JanelleCShane Yep! I’ve been tagged on this one a few times. Lots of geeky computer goodness!

    My 2018 resolution to be a better person does not apply when it’s your dear friend showing you pictures of her ex in all his hilarious sad middle-aged man creepiness. (Barnaby Joyce has nothing on this doofus.)

    Shhh! Don’t tell the hipster Melburnians there’s a sneaky Sydneysider hiding in plain sight… #tramselfie https://t.co/4zFPczJYBf https://t.co/6gWDrJqb0A

    @KenScambler Rumour has it I’m ALREADY RSVPED! 💥😜 (See you there?)

    Elapsed time in Melbourne before I thought “I wonder if I’d look good with a nose ring?”: 3 hours and 10 minutes.

    @nickzoic I had on a scarf and looked very hip. Blended right in. 😂

    @nickzoic @KenScambler Having drinks tomorrow evening at Arbory Floating Bar if you’d like to join!

    RT @yow_conf: Our next #yownight has just gone live! Join @TacticalGrace next month in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Brisbane to find out why…

    FIFTEEN functional programming books in this @humble bundle including Programming Scala by @deanwampler (who’s coming to speak at @yow_conf Data)! (Thanks @DohMoose for the tip!) https://t.co/dhs2bjtQaC

    @hitsthings Well written and rings true. It seems silly, but it’s part of why I cried watching the new Queer Eye show. Because it’s beautiful seeing men be open with each other.

    Oh bloody hell. Good thing I didn’t see this at lunchtime. 😳 https://t.co/BvSmKHvrp8

    My first time attending #mhug! Thanks @ConSord for letting me spruik @YOWLambdaJam and @TacticalGrace’s upcoming YOW night! https://t.co/K4zhWVyMEj

    Learning about serverless Haskell, a project that came out of a @seekjobs hackathon! #mhug https://t.co/XqQWvGgc5p https://t.co/XOUVSA3VUb

    @KenScambler @ConSord @YOWLambdaJam @TacticalGrace @ScalaMelb Yay! Would you like some slides?

    @KenScambler Will do once I get back to hotel tonight!

    Change made, deployment, and success! 👏 #mhug https://t.co/OraFehfg8v

    Serverless Haskell seems super useful! Pull requests invited. 😉 #mhug https://t.co/PVQuoVcJCb

    More meetups need to finish with a banquet at @mamakrestaurant! 😍🐷 #mhug https://t.co/XPu0m9mkKf https://t.co/CATTVOzKym

    RT @yow_conf: ALERT!!! Pay what you want for a Humble Book Bundle of #functionalprogramming books. 4 days left to get #Clojure #Elixir #Erl…

    @franksting @GordyPls @jonoabroad @decryption I used to use Moneywell, which I was happy with. Entered everything manually. Mac only though, which is why I eventually switched to YNAB.

    @Paul_Bone @mamakrestaurant Same – lovely to meet you too! And PLEASE submit “Haskell sucks” for Lambda Jam, if only to indulge my love of a good troll. 😀

    @brendanzab @mamakrestaurant OH THAT CAT. See, I recognise that! 😛

    @ahuijsen @evanderkoogh I am also in the Post Binge Regret phase due to Excessive Mamak. I blame those Melbourne Haskell people. *clutches stomach*

    @stephenlead BUENO!! 👏

    @devdevcharlie @jsconfeu Awesome, congrats!!