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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some software problems are new. Some have been annoying engineering teams for decades. @randyshoup.bsky.social has spent more than 30 years working on them. He's also no stranger to YOW! - having joined us previously at #YOW22 with his talk: youtu.be/oejXFgvAwTA?...

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Large-Scale Architecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pls welcome @vladikk.bsky.social to #YOW26! Vlad will look at why so many approaches to modularity haven't quite delivered on their promises, & share a practical way to evaluate the modularity of your own codebase, identify where things have gone wrong & start fixing them.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 24/09/2026

🎙️ New episode of a Bootiful Podcast: I chat with Michael Carducci on deterministic AI, semantic layers, and why the future of AI may be won at the data layer-not the model layer. For production-ready AI and auditable reasoning, listen here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-edzgh-1b6a707

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Software architecture isn't just about drawing boxes and arrows. It's abt understanding the system those boxes are part of. In her #YOW24 session, @roundcrisis.com explores systems thinking thru a series of short architecture sessions. 🎥 Thinking About Systems: youtu.be/SIIiNLoPDFA

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Thinking About Systems with Bytesize Architecture Sessions • Andrea Magnorsky • YOW! 2024

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When delivery slows down, it's tempting to do something. Add people. Add AI agents. Restructure the teams. Buy better tools. Introduce a new process. The activity goes up. The meetings go up. The reporting goes up. But does the work actually get delivered faster?

YOW! Conferences + Masterclasses 2026 promotional graphic featuring speaker Simon White and his talk, “Your Teams Aren’t the Problem – Your System Is: Why Most Software Leaders Optimise the Wrong Things.” The graphic identifies Simon White as Chairman of TOCICO and Senior Program Manager at WTG, with YOW! 2026 conference dates for Melbourne and Brisbane.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please welcome Chainguard as a #YOW26 Bronze sponsor! 👏👏👏 They provide hardened, trusted & production-ready builds for open source software that prevents AI-driven attacks from entering your software supply chain. Find out more at www.chainguard.dev

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're trying to keep up with #MCP, you've noticed a LOT has changed. Join @philna.sh at #YOW26 to look at how the protocol & ecosystem have evolved over the year and where it still has work to do. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/09/2026

Spring tools leveled up: from Eclipse to VS Code to MCP, the Spring team is turning IDE intelligence into AI superpowers. Auto-complete, runtime insights, and agent-ready context across Eclipse, VS Code, Cursor, Neovim, Emacs, and more. How? www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qhvuw-1b60d3a

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 04/09/2026

Something that has become apparent in researching this is just how fragmented and disconnected our industry is becoming. Everyone experiences it uniquely and reactions are spread... from disillusioned and cynical to euphoric and starry-eyed. watch.getcontrast.io/register/ice...

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A defence of technical excellence for lovers and haters of LLMs

The discipline of software development is changing faster than ever while management expectations, already excessive, are reaching dizzying new heights of ...

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@roundcrisis.com and @chrissimon.au will give you a taste of what they'll be exploring at #YOW26: what does Residuality look like in the real world? 🎟 Bring your team! 📍 MEL 3 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ever tried to introduce a better way of working to a software team? Then you've probably run into some version of Larman's Law. @allenholub.bsky.social joined #YOW24 to look at why org change is hard & what it takes to get people on board. 🎥 Watch it: youtu.be/XwhF_xbVpIQ

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Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law • Allen Holub • YOW! 2024

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To all the IT Professionals out there, Happy IT Professionals Day! May your ☕coffee/tea stay hot, your 🍻beer cold, your deployment smooth and production 🐛bug-free!

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI is everywhere. But is it actually part of your app yet? @starbuxman.joshlong.com joins #YOW26 to take a practical look at bringing AI into the applications you're already building with Java & Spring. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're excited to welcome back REA Group as a #YOW26 Melbourne SILVER sponsor! REA Group (ASX: REA) is a leading digital business working towards changing the way the world experiences property. Visit www.rea-group.com to see how they're changing the way the world experiences property.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What do you do when your AI model is 62% accurate, but the workflow requires more than 99%? #YOW26 speaker Chris Henry will use lessons from real-world diagnostic & clinical software to challenge the idea that the model is the centre of an AI system.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What if chat isn't the best interface for AI? @todepond.com is joining #YOW26 as a keynote speaker. If you've seen Lu's #YOW24 talk, you'll know they have a pretty different take on how we interact with AI. If you missed it, it's well worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvM...

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Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas • Lu Wilson • YOW! 2024

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What does it mean to be a software engineer when AI can write more & more of the code? Annie Vella recently discussed The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - and it's a conversation worth having if you're thinking about how our roles are changing 🎥 youtu.be/GI2ywMl2gQk

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The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Insights with Annie Vella

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We welcome @kittylyst.bsky.social to #YOW26 with his talk: The Evolution of Java Program Execution If you work with #Java & want to understand what's actually changing underneath your apps (& why), this is worth getting into. 🎟️ MEL yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 🎟️ BNE yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you’re considering CQRS & Event Sourcing or dealing with running them, Jeremy's #YOW26 masterclass is an opportunity to learn from someone who spent years building these tools & working in the .NET ecosystem. 🎟️ MEL yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 🎟️ BNE yowcon.com/brisbane-202...

YOW! 2026 Masterclass promotional graphic for Jeremy D. Miller’s “Event Sourcing & CQRS for .NET: Building Production Systems with the Critter Stack.” The graphic lists sessions on Wednesday 2 December at Cliftons Melbourne and Wednesday 9 December at Cliftons Brisbane, alongside a portrait of Jeremy D. Miller.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Doubled engineering productivity & it still wasn't enough? @randyshoup.bsky.social takes an honest look at the gap between improving how teams work & changing how an org works 🎟 Bring the team to #YOW26! 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What happens when your most demanding user is an #AIAgent? Jeremy D. Miller joins #YOW26 with "Making an Application Framework AI Friendly" to share learnings from adapting their tools for a world where AI agents are increasingly involved in building & working with software

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Struggling to understand production even with an observability tool? @kaspernissen.xyz will share why building a platform that gives devs the info they need when they need it w/o complexity is the bigger challenge. #YOW26 📍 MEL yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Join our #YOW26 Masterclass with @allenholub.bsky.social: Domain-Focused Component Architecture for AI-Assisted Development 📍 MEL 2 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-202...

YOW! 2026 Masterclass promotional graphic for Allen Holub’s “Domain-Focused Component Architecture for AI-Assisted Development: A Hands-On Workshop.” The graphic lists Allen Holub as the instructor, with sessions on Wednesday 2 December at Cliftons Melbourne and Wednesday 9 December at Cliftons Brisbane, alongside his portrait.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What happens when you put 1 demanding prog language with #AIAgents? Niko joins #YOW26 to explore how #Rust can provide guardrails for reliable code & how agents can help learn Rust & migrate codebases. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

YOW! Conferences 2026 speaker graphic featuring Niko Matsakis, Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon, presenting “Rust in the Age of Agents.” The graphic includes the conference dates and locations: Melbourne 2–4 December and Brisbane 7–9 December, with a portrait of Niko Matsakis on the right.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're thrilled to welcome back Liberty as a #YOW26 Melbourne GOLD sponsor! Liberty remains the only non-bank lender with an investment-grade credit rating offering custom and prime solutions to help more people get financial. www.liberty.com.au

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 18/08/2026

AI agents aren't just chatbots anymore. They're getting tools, permissions, and access to sensitive data. 😳 In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @insider.phd explores how malicious prompts can hijack agents—and turn them into an insider threat. Watch: youtu.be/fuJq99juh0Q?...

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AI Agents Gone Rogue? Build, Defend & Attack AI-Enabled Apps • Katie Paxton-Fear • YOW! 2025

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Please welcome @todepond.com as a #YOW26 keynote speaker! Lu will explore how practices & mentalities of an informal jam session might tell us abt the way we collaborate, create & build software together. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

YOW! Conferences 2026 speaker graphic featuring Lu Wilson, a software engineer presenting the keynote “Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvisational jazz to engineering.” The graphic includes the conference dates and locations: Melbourne 2–4 December and Brisbane 7–9 December, with a portrait of Lu Wilson on the right.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 04/08/2026

What if your front-end tests ran automatically on every PR—and caught issues before users ever saw them? 🚀 @amyskapers.dev shows how to build reliable front-end testing pipelines with #GitHubActions in this practical @yowconf.bsky.social talk. 🎥 youtu.be/2om5ofTuV2Q?...

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Front End Testing with GitHub Actions • Amy Kapernick • YOW! 2025

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@johanjanssen.bsky.social joins #YOW26 with his talk - Keeping Your Code, Dependencies, & Runtime Up to Date - to share practical ways to keep your apps healthy w/o turning dependency management into a full-time job. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 11/08/2026

Programming languages never stand still. In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @kevlin.bsky.social explores where languages came from, why they evolve, and what the future might look like. A must-watch for every developer. 👇 youtu.be/nNWROjHZzuU?...

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The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • YOW! 2025

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're writing more code than ever. The challenge is making sure it does what it's supposed to. We're excited to welcome Vilhelm von Ehrenheim to #YOW26 with his talk: Quality Engineering for the Software Factory 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're thrilled to welcome & thank Octopus Deploy as a #YOW26 Brisbane Bronze sponsor! They make it easy to deliver software to Kubernetes, multi-cloud, on-prem & anywhere else at scale in 1 platform. Visit octopus.com/company/care... to learn how to do the best work of your life.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sonya Natanzon will take a fresh look at 1 of the biggest tensions in software dev at #YOW26: is architecture really competing w/ biz value? Or have we been thinking about the problem the wrong way? 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Performance tuning has a reputation for being part science, part black magic. @ogkittylyst.bsky.social argues it doesn't have to be in his #YOW26 full-day masterclass - Java Performance: Beyond Witchcraft, Pseudoscience & Folklore.

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Thanks to all the sysadmins out there for all awesome work and countless hours you put into maintaining our digital infrastructure! #SysAdmin #SysAdminDay

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 28/07/2026

Does every problem really need GenAI? @charleshumble.bsky.social makes the case for smaller models, smarter engineering, and sustainable AI in this excellent @yowconf.bsky.social talk. Watch here: youtu.be/5rFuv4SK7OY?...

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Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable • Charles Humble • YOW! 2025

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/07/2026

It's out! As of today you can order the PRINT 2nd edition of Observability Engineering from any major bookseller; no more waiting for preorders. Co-written w/ @charity.wtf, @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io & guest authors Buy: www.indiebound.org/book/9781098... or www.amazon.com/Observabilit...

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Bought the observability tool but still struggling to understand what’s happening in production? We’re excited to welcome Kasper Borg Nissen to #YOW26 with "Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product" 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 21/07/2026

Can a 2MB WebAssembly app run on Kubernetes? 👀 In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @frankel.ch explores tiny Wasm workloads, Kubernetes runtimes, live demos, and why the tech is both exciting and risky today. Watch: youtu.be/gyGupmI1wvk?... #Wasm #WebAssembly #Kubernetes #Containers

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WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • YOW! 2025

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Please welcome Johan Janssen to #YOW26! He'll share practical ways to keep your apps healthy w/o turning dependency mgmt into a full-time job. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 07/07/2026

What if the future of conservation isn't something we see—but something we hear? 🎧🌏 Paul Roe shares how AI, big data, and ecoacoustics are transforming biodiversity monitoring, one soundscape at a time. Watch the full @yowconf.bsky.social talk: youtu.be/fh4aYWqvQL0?...

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A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey • Paul Roe • YOW! 2025

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 14/07/2026

"I play code." @samaaron.bsky.social explains why programming belongs on stage, not just in the office. From @sonic-pi.net to AI & Tau5, this is a fresh look at creativity, software, and the future of coding. 🎥 Watch this @yowconf.bsky.social talk now: youtu.be/-L4OoOgQ5Wk?...

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Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 & the Art of Coding with AI • Sam Aaron • YOW! 2025

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"We don’t have time to improve the architecture - we need to deliver features” - sound familiar? If you’ve been caught btwn shipping & building healthy software, catch Sonya's #YOW26 talk. 📍 MEL 3-4 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 7-8 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We’re excited @allenholub.bsky.social will be at #YOW26. If you’re trying to figure out what good software architecture looks like in an AI-enabled world, this talk will give you plenty to think about. 📍 MEL 2 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2026/

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Kris Jenkins @krisajenkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There’s a fascinating algorithm called DBSP that single-handedly managed to combine streaming and batch systems and solve a decades-old database efficiency problem. Lalith Suresh joined me to explain the core of how it works: 😊 youtu.be/CyvnH8OUCUA

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Making Materialized Views Actually Fast with DBSP (with Lalith Suresh)

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Human Flaw That's Ruining Your Software Specifications | Gojko Adzic 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW WATCH HERE: youtu.be/LectsDkITjI

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The Human Flaw That's Ruining Your Software Specifications

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Earlybird tickets may be gone, but that doesn’t mean you’ve missed your chance to save. If you’re thinking about bringing a few teammates to #YOW26, we offer group discounts, starting from 5 tickets. Drop us a line at info@yowconference.com Who’s joining you this year? 👀

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YOW! Conferences @yowconf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This was such an inspirational talk at last year’s #YOW25 conference

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