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every day, i squash the urge to message my work friends to say "what if we all didn't do any work and just had a nap?" because i think i am just always more tired than they are
but like... WHAT IF
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Alix
@evolutionise@cloudisland.nz
mastodon 4.5.18Kiwi girly living in Melbourne, Australia doing tech things and hanging out with pugs. she/her.
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tiny pugs do not approve of working on your talk outside of work hours
hard question for me: how much compsci/deep programming lore is too much for a talk at an SRE conference? some folks will love it. some folks will be overwhelmed by too many new concepts. the right amount is hard to judge.
so far we're including:
- turing completeness and the halting problem
- event driven architecture software considerations (e.g. what is "good" in an event processing system?)
- a little bit of distributed systems challenges
- tree data structures
- a little bit of domain driven design
- programmatic reflection
and those are just the concepts i suspect some folks won't know. obviously some will be familiar with all of them, but i care about making my talks accessible to people who don't have a software background or are newer to the industry
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that said, the TWO people i had to call while panicking to get them to transfer the tickets an hour before the gig were beyond lovely and even checked in with me this morning to make sure i made it!
I think that says good things about Ashnikko fans, not Tixel's business, though.
the cutest in-flight entertainment for MEL-HBA. do you see the tiny snips? they are SO CUTE
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just overheard one of the volunteers at the miniature steam train railway i took my software engineer husband to for his birthday say "well, I'm a software engineer by trade..." and yeah that tracks
this has unfailingly been my experience as well.
per this thread, having a woman ask questions in a technical interview, does NOT weed out neurodiverse candidates mistakenly, because they _consistently_ apply any behaviours that might be read unfavourably
i take malicious pleasure in simply and clearly explaining comp sci concepts to the partners of software engineers who hand wave it away as "too hard to explain"
that's YOUR skill issue, actually.
if you're talking about it in front of someone who doesn't know the concept, you should be able to break it down enough to explain your conversation
i laid these out while contemplating whether i have an unhealthy relationship with the fabric remnants bin at spotlight. when i came back to them, a tiny pug was standing guard - this is completely unposed.
i have cat-like reflexes, in the sense that i knock things over all the time, but also in the sense that I'm usually fast enough to catch them
all the things Australians complain about - mostly things being expensive - and express surprise that I'd move here given that, are ALSO expensive in NZ. and way more crap.
e.g. housing - also expensive, and much much worse quality.
e.g. utilities - also expensive. also breaking far far more frequently due to massive under investment.
e.g. public transport - expensive and laughable, particularly in Auckland.
so exhausted that I'm kind of hoping none of my lovely friends who I'm very excited to see show up to the pub where i invited them to come see me, so i can sit by myself and read the third Shadow of the Leviathan book tbh
(if you see this and intend to come PLEASE DO i will be so happy to see you. but will also be happy to read quietly next to you)
people who refuse to let me spoil them are very unreasonable. i like buying little gifts, why won't you let me???
apparently it's "peak only child behaviour" that i bought some art from the cute rural antique store while out on my husband's birthday outing yesterday because "only an only child would get themselves a present on my birthday" 🫠🫣
it absolutely grinds my gears that now that my mother is in aged care, so many professionals across multiple industries refer to her as "mum". Not "your mum". Just "mum".
Even I don't call her that.
i need to stop thinking about work as i drift off to sleep because then i have nonsensical lucid dreams that i think are real the next day. recently:
- a colleague owed me a coffee because i bought his wife some skincare thing
- someone i work with only tangentially was fired and we held a memorial
it needs to stop, it's getting spooky
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we're on a real yellow kick in this household. behold my husband's base coloured Warhammer
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@PetraOleum@cloudisland.nz any time I'm hand-sewing on the couch, my pugs try to insist on being on my lap, lying on the quilt, stomping on anything, generally being close to the needles. it's very stressful.
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@ppog_penguin@mastodon.nz oh don't let him hear you say that! i swear they're a standard army. Yandin (sp?) Eldar. This is what they look like finished
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second spoonful of oats done with no issues whatsoever!
my husband is very excited about oats being back on the menu so luckily he is driving the reintroduction, because i would definitely forget to make a small amount regularly
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what sort of print/colour shall i use to bind this quilt?
adhd life - looking at my keys and wondering what they all do. are they the ones i need for a trip to NZ? did someone lend me a house key that i never returned? where did they come from??
i have interacted with four people in hobart thus far and every single one has been absolutely delightful
i am trying to plan a relatively simple multistop journey in europe and look, we really fucked up when we took away travel agents
forever remembering the time i asked a dairy owner if they stocked doggy poop bags and he had clearly never heard of them and thought i was literally nuts
complained about eating everything in my path to a friend and she called me "the very hormonal caterpillar" and unfortunately my brain cannot move on from that nickname
every time I try to research embroidery machines lots of what i read starts with dire warnings about how using them for custom designs, or even tailoring the designs, requires SOFTWARE LANGUAGES OMG and unfortunately that is the part i am least worried about
like, i GET IT, but also ... it feels very weird
RE: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/116983047611794843
this is what moving to Australia was like. except AFL teams are much like gender, you don't need to worry, one will be assigned to you
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"Excuse me," the man at the bar said, "but I couldn't help overhearing. Are you really saying you refuse to pick one?"
"I don't see why I should have to."
"It's a core part of one's identity!"
"My gender and sexuality-"
"Oh!" He looked relieved. "I thought you were talking about football teams."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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absolutely no idea if i can attend, for a myriad of reasons, but I'm so excited and happy. i could really use a little holiday and an adventure.
i have a loosely-held goal of going to a new country every year. 2024 was Canada. 2025 was Indonesia. 2026 could be Czechia.
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unfortunately it is way more captivating than what i should be doing, which is writing a yaml schema. my adhd meds are not up to the task of tearing me away from the game - this is why i thrive in office environments at times, because a healthy dose of shame helps me focus on what i _should_ be doing
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more cute Aussie-isms: Barkly Square is unanimously referred to as "Sparkly Bear"
dropped by the fabric store after work and found this gorgeous quilting fabric at a massively discounted $3 a metre! extremely excited for it, might use it as backing fabric on my hand-quilting project #quilting #quilt #quiltfabric #sewing
a small win: a fabric subscription i desperately wanted from a small local fabric store would only send me a single order, not sign me up for the recurring order, unless i gave them my credit card number over the phone.
when they called to ask for my credit card number, i very politely explained that i don't give out my credit card number over the phone as a matter of practice, based on my area of expertise, and that it wasn't personal, and I'd love to sign up in the future if they allowed me to enter it securely online. they were absolutely baffled but very sweet about it.
when they sent my one-off order, they included a letter saying they had now set up their online portal and i could securely set up a recurring order!
i am over the moon. not sure if they listened to me or it was already in the works, but I'm so delighted!
anyway, I'm off to leave them a positive review then go lay out my new fabric to admire it like a dragon with her tiny soft hoard
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found out they don't get paid until after the gig, with time for me to file an issue, so they were financially incentivised to be helpful... but still. they were sweet about it and i appreciated it.
building tools for other developers is fun until you're not just writing yaml, you're writing ✨yaml schema✨
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third spoonful of oats has gone down a treat! might pause while i visit NZ because my stomach is always upset when travelling, but I'm very heartened by the results so far
it's embarrassing having a friend to stay and realising they get to see me how i actually live - in the scruffiest clothes i own, covered in pug fur and chip crumbs, running on caffeine and gentle frustration, locked up in my tiny office
wrote the first full outline of the talk I'm giving in October and I'm so excited about it. took about 45 mins of chatting it over before we teased out all the interesting bits and pieces we'd forgotten since we actually did the work
please remind me of this enthusiasm once i hit the pit of despair phase that's coming in a couple of weeks