Month: December 2024

  • YOW Brisbane 2024

    Very excited to kick off today’s YOW conference in Brisbane! It’s been years since I’ve caught up with some of these folks. ❤️

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  • Straddie

    Day trip to North Stradbroke Island! Lovely day for it. Rodd even did today’s Advent of Code from the beach. ❤️☀️🏖️⛴️

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  • Another flight

    Next stop Brisbane! ✈️

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  • YOW Melbourne 2024

    Day 2 at YOW 2024 Melbourne! I saw fantastic talks about getting executive buy-in, why you should develop your tech lead skills, how Spotify built Discover Weekly, nuances to programming in Rust, horror stories about not using feature flags, and why 100% efficiency is a bad goal.

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  • YOW Melbourne 2024

    Having a great time so far at YOW 2024 Melbourne, catching up with friends and learning from some amazing speakers.

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  • Next stop: Melbourne!

    Heading to Melbs for YOW Conference. Looking forward to catching up with everyone! ❤️

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  • Renovation update

    The landscapers have been hard at work for the past week working on our three sets of stairs. Each of them is being clad in “bluestone” (same as the big pavers), and they have had to cut every piece to the right size. The front steps were recently reconstructed from concrete so they went first.…

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  • Web Directions Next 2024

    Rodd and I were very excited to attend Web Directions Next 2024 last week. Web Directions have been running top-notch tech events in Sydney for decades (I’ve been a speaker for a couple of them), and this conference promised to focus on the future of product, design, and strategy. I wasn’t sure quite what to…

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  • RIP Roman and Roman 2.0

    Whoa – the guy who played the OG Roman Brady on Days of Our Lives just passed away. Our babysitter when I was little was obsessed with DOOL so I watched it most summer vacations. In college, my roommate Liz McKillop and I even had a column in the Notre Dame newspaper where we recapped it! (Lest…

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  • Incorrect Opal charges

    Does anyone else struggle with incorrect Opal charges? I love the convenience of contactless payments, but I’ve noticed a lot of discrepancies in how they are processed. We keep a very close eye on our bank statements and match them up to the Transport Connect Activity Statements, and it’s often very messy. Charges can be…

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