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stringy @stringyland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Simon talking about systems theory changed how I approach problems at work, and it’s been so helpful. Highly recommend getting along to hear him if you can!

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DamianM @damianm.com · 10/08/2026

This sums up my feelings on the term "content creator" so well.

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Chris Gilbert @chriswithpants.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've used Nimbus on a few projects and it's always a pleasure.

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Nathan Hoad 🐱 Bravest Coconut out NOW @nathanhoad.net · 10/07/2026

After 4+ years spent tinkering, Bravest Coconut is available on Steam. It's a Point & Click Adventure with no pointing and clicking, taking the quirky puzzles from games like Monkey Island and mixing with the exploration and action of retro Zeldas: s.team/a/2913190 #Godot #PixelArt #IndieGame

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Bravest Coconut is a Point & Click Adventure game without pointing and clicking. Help Coco the cat as her quest to return a library book becomes much more complicated than she thought. Solve story...

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DamianM @damianm.com · 30/06/2026

This was one of my favourite talks from last years @yowconf.bsky.social

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DamianM @damianm.com · 26/06/2026

If you see this, post an archer

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We love a good LOTR reference! Thrilled to have Prakriti join #YOWTLS26 in Melbourne to share Culture Amp’s lessons when rebuilding their 2nd largest product - Performance

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Justin Mclean now joins #YOWTLS26 in Melbourne to share real lessons from open source projects that have scaled without collapsing under their own weight.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Brisbane - Our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit opens tomorrow! Last chance to grab your ticket: yowcon.com/tech-leaders... #YOWTLS26

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#YOWTLS26 in Melbourne kicks off this morning with our Technical Director @damianm.com! Photo by @micheleplayfair.bsky.social

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DamianM @damianm.com · 10/06/2026

I've found the mental hack to force myself out of bed to ride my bike by myself in the morning. If I don't ride in the morning, I'll run in the evening. I hate running so much. So this morning: "I don't want to ride" "I could go back to bed and run tonight" "Fuck that, I'll RIDE THE BIKE NOW".

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DamianM @damianm.com · 02/06/2026

I finally gave in to my Mac nagging. All my corners are now round

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DamianM @damianm.com · 01/06/2026

I just found this in my notes from August 2020. 2020 - A Haiku Can you hear me now? Can everybody see my screen? Sorry Dave, you’re on mute

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We're super excited to have @stringyland.bsky.social joining #YOWTLS26! If your team has started the accessibility journey but struggles to sustain its implementation in the long term, her talk is for you. 🎟️ Melbourne 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... 🎟️ Brisbane 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

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DamianM @damianm.com · 11/05/2026

Nostalgic today listening to the release of an album from one of Jackie Orszaczky's gigs at the Rose in 2001. Anybody who witnessed a Tuesday night at the Rose in that era will remember them as nothing short of magic. Listening to this puts me right back in the bar tidal.com/album/521333...

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Jackie Orszaczky - Live At The Rose

Listen to Live At The Rose on TIDAL

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DamianM @damianm.com · 06/05/2026

I’ve just been doing some relatively unscientific benchmarks. And holy crap NATS is quick. NATS core is not much slower than just in memory message handling, and even with JetStream persistence turned on it’s much faster than Redis.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We’re launching our 1st #YOW26 Masterclass with @allenholub.bsky.social: Practical Software Architecture for AI (And Everything Else) 🎟️ Save $180 with promo code 'earlybirdclass' ⏳ Limited tickets until 30 Jun 📍 MEL 2 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-202...

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stringy @stringyland.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm going to be at YOW Tech Leaders Summit, helping you with accessibility - if you join us! Lots of great talks that I'm excited for too, just an all-round good time I reckon #YOWTLS26

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DamianM @damianm.com · 17/04/2026

I bought this based on @anildash.com's review. Just arrived. This is my weekend reading sorted.

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 01/04/2026

We're blacksmiths. Some of what we know transfers to this new world. Some of it doesn't. Figuring out which is which is our next greatest challenge. 🎧 Still Burning ep. 1 —

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DamianM @damianm.com · 27/03/2026

Apple Music wants to make me feel old. I mean, Shake Your Money Maker is a great (classic even) rock album, but it was the 90s FFS! It's not Abbey Road.

A screenshot showing The Beatles's Abbey Road next to The Black Crowes's Shake Your Money Maker under the heading "Essential Classic Rock Albums"

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DamianM @damianm.com · 07/03/2026

This could turn into an incredibly fun project. @fernandogros.com have you seen this yet?

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DamianM @damianm.com · 03/03/2026

Good view of the #LunarEclipse here. iPhone pressed up against the eyepiece of a telescope.

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DamianM @damianm.com · 02/03/2026

I've started trialling @plausible.io as a Google Analytics replacement and it looks great. It's simple, no evil tracking, and just shows me what I want. It's a super nice onboarding experience too. Impressed so far.

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DamianM @damianm.com · 02/03/2026

The CFP for this just closed and there are some fantastic talks in there. Obviously I am biased, but the program will be excellent! If you’re a new leader, or looking to scale your org. This will be a great event.

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DamianM @damianm.com · 02/03/2026

Thirteen years ago I built an open source library for building distributed apps in .NET. Since then it's been quietly running in production systems everywhere. But it looked neglected. Now it's back! damianm.com/posts/2026/n...

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The Nimbus Messaging API Is Back | Damian Maclennan

This week is a very big, and somewhat emotional one for me. An open source library I started in 2013 has been quietly running in production for 13 years, handling millions and millions of transactions...

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 22/01/2026

The great thing about the Brisbane to Gold Coast train is that while you’re on it you’re not in either place.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 22/01/2026

A bootleg recording of my favorite talk I've ever given, "Tool-making, for good and evil," is now on youtube! (link below) Huge thanks to @larene.dev for recording, @damianm.com for convincing me to do it, and the awesome folks hosting (and in the audience) at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social, back in Dec.

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Tool-making, for good and evil

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

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Code Cleanliness

On the origins of ‘clean code’

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DamianM @damianm.com · 05/01/2026

I've been waiting for this album to be released for ages. I knew they were working on it. The original Joe Cocker album is an all time fave, I grew up listening to my dads records and this got played a lot. tidal.com/album/466022...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell - Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCKN'

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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Make more time to do the things that light you up.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In the late 90s a synthesis engine was built - so powerful, it was separated from its language & set free. Today, running in an AudioWorklet it survives as a soldier of sound. If you have a web page... if you need real-time synthesis... maybe you can call SuperSonic. sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

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SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser

SuperCollider's powerful scsynth audio synthesis engine running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. Zero installation.

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DamianM @damianm.com · 23/12/2025

I am absolutely right!

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Using a search engine, we found 67 unsecured admin panels for Flock Safety cameras. The majority of them use AI to zoom in and follow people. I had both live and 31 days of archived footage from retail parking lots, forest trails, playgrounds, etc. @404media.co youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...

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This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

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Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 22/12/2025

Here's an idea for creatives to explore in 2026. Build a scene. Take the time you spend promoting your work and devote 80% of that to creating a scene. Connect with other creatives. Create a buzz around your location. Your unique culture, vibe, and history. Don't be an atom. Be a universe.

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Conor Shakory @codereport.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢 ADSP Ep 265 is out! 📢 In this episode, I record live from @yowconf.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney 🇦🇺! I talk with @kevlin.bsky.social about his YOW! talk and the future of programming languages, as well as @damianm.com on his first time as Technical Director of YOW! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2025/12/19/E...

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/12/2025

Seeing some extremely terrible takes (i.e., feelpinions) which lack evidence, and it's adding more confusion to a very fragile moment. A totally valid and justified option right now would be to just STFU and just show care, support, solidarity and empathy to those most affected around us.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/12/2025

Slides are up, now that I've had the ability to iterate the talk three times in a row! #YOW25 drive.google.com/file/d/1J-nf...

Nine Secrets for a High-Velocity Culture
1. Reproducible Deploys - If it ain't in Git it doesn't exist!
2. Fast CI/CD - I wanna go fast!
3. Observability - Don't drive at night without headlights!
4. Feature Flagging - Smaller boom, less fear!
5. Code Ownership - You build it, you run it! (with a twist)
6. Blameless Culture - No one wins the shame game!
7. Service Level Objectives - If you liked it, shoulda put an SLO on it!
8. Chaos Engineering - Test your assumptions!
9. Platform Engineering - ties everything together.

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DamianM @damianm.com · 11/12/2025

“Squinting based analysis “. - @thinkingfish.bsky.social Yes, I have done an awful lot of this. #yow25

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DamianM @damianm.com · 10/12/2025

“Juniors have more economic value than ever before”. Because AI development can accelerate learning if we can help them and let them in. Hopeful insights from @kentbeck.com #yow25

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