Today is #DayOfUnplugging, the annual 24-hour respite from technology to inspire healthy life/tech balance.
We don't know about you, but we probably don't be able to unplug for the full 24 hours. 😅
nationaldayofunplugging.com
Sponsorship is about backing the people who build, lead & shape our tech community.
If your org cares about strong tech culture & being part of meaningful industry conversations, we’d love to have a conversation.
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane Earlybird Available Now Closes Tue 31 March or until sold out
Earlybird isn’t about saving money, but committing to your growth early.
YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Earlybird tickets are live & extremely limited. Ends Mar 31 or until sold out.
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#YOWTLS26 #TechLeadership
Our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit CFP closes tomorrow!
Pop in your talk submission today.
✍️ CFP details and submission: yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
@vercel.com's AI Cloud provides tools & infrastructure to build, scale & secure intelligent apps.
As the team behind Next.js, v0 & the AI SDK, & the platform trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Zapier & Canva, they help teams build for the AI-native web & ship at the speed of ideas.
YOW! 2026 Silver Sponsor Announcement: We're proud to welcome Silver Sponsor Vercel
We’re excited to welcome @vercel.com as our 2nd confirmed sponsor for #YOW26!
Joining us as a Silver Sponsor, they'll also be keeping our community fuelled with ☕ barista-made coffee in both cities (yes, your morning flat white is sorted!).
If you’ve developed your own approaches to trust, alignment or leadership at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
📝 The Call for Submissions for the YOW! Tech Leaders Summit closes this Sat 28 Feb
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One of the hardest parts of leadership is setting direction that keeps people feeling trusted, valued & aligned.
Lee Campbell shared ways leaders can balance autonomy with clarity & support teams w/o over-directing in his #YOW23 talk - Layers of Leadership
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHy...
Kent Beck at @yowconf.bsky.social Sydney: nobody knows what programming will look like in two years — "even getting to 'it depends' would be progress."
If you're feeling anxious or grief-stricken about where our industry is heading, I wrote this for you.
👉 leaddev.com/ai/nobody-kn...
Learn how coding agents are reshaping languages & tools - @josevalim.bsky.social breaks down instructions, tools & runtimes, plus AGENTS.md & runtime introspection to boost dev & AI productivity. youtu.be/VZcDxkFj_9E?...
AI programming is changing everything, but are you catching the mistakes? When AI assistants generate 10X more code than you normally would, the feedback loop breaks.
This week's video is on how to make the most of of these ai tools ➡️ youtu.be/XavrebMKH2A
YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Call for Submissions Closing Soon Saturday 28 February
Only 9 days left to submit to our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit CFP!
If you’ve learned something the hard way and think others could benefit, submit your talk idea.
✍️ CFP details & submission: yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
I spoke with @charleshumble.bsky.social a few weeks back for @gotocon.com
We dived into a wide range of security and container topics, from why containers came about and how vulnerability scanners work, to SBOMs and the evolution of Distroless into @chainguard.dev images
youtu.be/9NUOiL48hbo?...
Josh Long will explore how Spring Boot and Kotlin come together to create a cleaner, more productive path to building JVM applications that move to production more quickly and safely.
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Australia’s software developer community to come together for meaningful conversations, learning & connection.
Thank you for backing YOW! 2026, 84codes - we’re thrilled to have you with us!
YOW! 2026 Software Developers Conference GOLD Sponsor announcement - 84codes
It’s official: #YOW26 has its 1st sponsor!
A huge welcome to 84codes, our 1st confirmed sponsor for Melbourne & Brisbane. 🎉
Their early commitment is helping to bring this year’s conference to life & supporting our mission to deliver an exceptional experience for...
In honor of today's 25th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, I'd like to remind everybody that the very first sentence starts with: "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it…" The critical word in that sentence is "uncovering." They didn't say "uncovered," which would
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Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
Today is #SaferInternetDay, a day to join together to make the internet a safer & better place for all, especially children & young people.
Here's a resource kit to help #StartTheChat about being safer online & building your family's digital skills.
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If you’ve learned lessons the hard way abt leadership, people or inclusion, share them at our upcoming YOW! Tech Leaders Summit series: CFP closes Sat 28 Feb.
Or learn with others navigating these same challenges, Earlybird tickets are available until 31 March, unless sold out prior.
It’s a deeply practical talk & one that’s still very relevant.
🎥 Watch the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b29G...
At #YOW23, Michelle Gleeson spoke honestly abt what happens when leaders are left to “figure it out” & how we often reinforce old biases w/o meaning to.
She also shares her journey building a tech career fr the out-group & what she’s learned abt creating environments where people can thrive.
Many engineers step into leadership without a handbook.
Suddenly you’re expected to know how to hire well.
Give fair performance feedback.
Grow careers.
Build teams where people actually feel they belong...
. @charleshumble.bsky.social & Dr. Ewelina Kurtys discuss biological computing: living neurons that could cut AI costs by being 1M times more energy efficient than current systems.
In case you missed it, I have a free, full, open course on accessibility and visualization that is part of the launch of the new Open Visualization Academy.
The course is packed!
And the OVA has over 300+ sign-ups already (which isn't even necessary!) as well as over 4000+ newsletter subs.
If this resonates with you & you’ve learned something that others could benefit from, our Call for Submissions for the YOW! Tech Leaders Summit is currently open (closing Sat 28 Feb 2026)
👉 yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
Earlybird tickets are also now available until 31 March, unless sold out prior.
In his 2019 talk, Dave Thomas reflects on the many hats a CTO wears, & why vision isn’t a “nice to have”, but a core responsibility of tech leadership.
Watching it again now, so much of it still holds true: the tools have changed, but the pressure hasn’t.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSkR...
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Being a CTO (or any senior tech leader) has never been just about technology.
You’re balancing strategy and delivery, people and systems... and not to mention, today’s fires and tomorrow’s direction.
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The SuperSonic demo UI - lots of code, logs, metrics and a simple track pad interface showing a trail of movement. A big scope is at the top indicating that it's making sound.
I just pushed v0.35 of SuperSonic - my port of SuperCollider's powerful synthesis engine scsynth to the web as an AudioWorklet.
This comes with a lot of performance improvements, improved bundler compatibility and much polish to the fun example.
Take it for a spin: sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
The countdown is getting close! Mark your calendars for our Jan 31st release!
