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Chris Simon

@chrissimon.au

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Empowering technology teams to drive business success. On an allyship journey | Speaker | Founder | Non-executive Director Created @contextive.tech, co-founded www.meetup.com/en-AU/domain-driven-…. Also@ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 05/09/2026

Nice outage notification from iPrimus... holy edge case, Batman!

Outage notification with estimated time of restoration being undefined, undefined, nan, nan nan:nan:nan PM AEST

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 18/06/2025

Loved @codefrenzy.bsky.social 's keynote at #yowtls25 about the dualities of AI in software engineering! For everything we gain in adopting AI, what are we giving up? Learning? Intuition? Quality? Identity?

Smoothing out the terrain: when the terrain is too smooth, will we even notice what we're stepping over?

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 22/02/2025

Lovely gesture for speakers from @dddmelbourne.bsky.social - by the end of your talk they already have a framed picture of you speaking!

Framed picture of Chris Simon, bearded man in glasses in maroon shirt, speaking at DDD Melbourne.

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 05/12/2024

Day 4 was in Python, but then Day 5 was a nostalgia fest using #QBASIC, the first language I ever cut serious(ish) code in in the early 90s. Amazingly, a community group has kept the magic alive with QB64, a modern IDE and compiler for the QBASIC language- you can even get and run GORILLAS.BAS! 3/6

GORILLAS.BAS running, showing Chris vs Advent of Code 2024, with two Gorillas standing on a city skyline preparing to throw bananas at each other.

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 05/12/2024

Not only does this allow to you respond with complete truth to any job ad looking for a 'Rockstar developer', it also lets you write functions in the style of 80s rock anthems. 2/6

Screenshot of a function in the Rockstar programming language from github:

Nothin is Terrifying
A Lot is A good-times holleroona knifer-cat ballroom-a aballerina

Tall Charlie Wants Potatoes and Cheese
Shatter Potatoes into Dumplings
let Longest Time be Dumplings and Nothin
let How Much be Cheese over Longest Time times a lot
turn down How Much
let How Much be How Much between a lot
let Something be Potatoes times How Much
Giving Something

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