the old "OI! clap once if you can hear me! [clap] clap twice if you can hear me [clap clap]" technique works wonders to get a crowd to pay attention to the main thing when they're all busy in conversation.

Just another thing from my bag of showmanship/devrel tricks. #YOW25

conference stage: BOLD PREDICTIONS: 2028: Break RSA-2048 / ECC-160 in ~1 week

pub dsa1024 2003-12-14 [SC] 1F7714D7EC3441D2CECC24606A3F8B00FBDDD2A4 uid [ unknown] Elizabeth Fong-Jones <elizabeth@ugcs.caltech.edu> uid [ unknown] Liz Fong-Jones <lizf@honeycomb.io> uid [ unknown] Elizabeth Fong <elizabeth@ctyalcove.org> uid [ unknown] Elizabeth Fong <elizabeth@ugcs.caltech.edu> uid [ unknown] Elizabeth Fong <elizabeththegrey@gmail.com> uid [ unknown] [jpeg image of size 9581] sub rsa2048 2011-06-12 [S] sub rsa2048 2016-02-15 [E]

Welp, I think I've now been scared sufficiently that I need to change out my 22 year old GPG key. #YOW25

It was already dated with use of dsa1024, but if the rsa2048 is in trouble for existing encrypt/sign operations, rather than just the risk of someone pretending to sign new sub-keys...

A woman presenting at a conference. The slide is titled “squinting based analysis” and features a picture of a woman staring at a laptop

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

#yow25

my colleague Sina and I are here representing @honeycomb.io!!! #YOW25

honeycomb.io logo Platform Engineering Practices for Speedy Delivery Liz Fong-Jones Field CTO, Honeycomb

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.

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...

“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

Kent Beck standing on stage in front of an introductory slide titled “Sustainable Augmented Development”

Third and final time I get to welcome @kentbeck.com to a stage at @yowconf.bsky.social
It’s been fun, and a huge honour.
#yow25

It’s the final #YOW25 city - Sydney!

We cannot wait to see everyone this morning at the Sofitel Wentworth for the next 2 days.

a negative Aptitude Metrix nucleic test, with green - and white power lit, and not red + light.

On that note, I'm verified good for the rest of #YOW25!

Fri PM Deploy octopus whistling, pushing out v1.1, v1.2, v1.3, and v1.4 on a conveyor belt A purple tiger or leopard cub with DEPLOY ON FRIDAY text in comic sans shown on top other stickers on background, including an octopus steering a 7 spoked kubernetes helm, if you liked it you should have put an SLO on it, and that span could have been an attribute.

@octopus.com 💪 @honeycomb.io stickers at #YOW25!

Crowd of people heading through auditorium doors at the YOW! Conference in Brisbane

We're kicking off #YOW25 in Brisbane! Cannot wait to spend the next 2 days with the Brisbane community.

Sydney, you're next - and there's still time to grab your ticket: yowcon.com/sydney-2025/

The slide says “Hey D.M. Can we try?”

One of @brunty.me ‘s slides is something I get to hear all the time.
#yow25

The crew were saying we were pretty sure yours was the oldest YOW! tshirt we’ve seen this year and we love it! ❤️

Thanks so much for joining us at #YOW25 and your support!

Back in my own bed between editions of #YOW25, skipping the customary speaker recreational weekend between Melbourne and Brisbane.

I adore everyone involved, and also I just... need some alone time in a familiar place. Being in hotels too many days in a row sucks.

Thanks #YOW25 for a brilliant conference, keeping the dev spirit alive in 25. So many good sessions, conversations and revelations. There was a strong feeling of the good old days and new energy ✨

Hacking AI systems at #YOW25
Katherine Jarmul gave us some sharp warnings.

It feels good to be on stage again after a few months off, ending the year with a bang on the @yowconf.bsky.social roadshow #YOW25

This time I've even brought my own entourage, with our whole family having a few adventures along the way

Frank is pointing at a visualisation of votes in US states. When viewed in greyscale you can’t tell the difference between red and blue states

Watching @frank.computer talk about testing and designing accessible data visualisations #yow25

That was a really great presentation. Would highly recommend people check out the recording or attend the Brisbane or Sydney editions of it. #YOW25

This talk, titled "Beyond Line Charts", should actually be titled "Your Charts Are Lying To You" :) @thinkingfish.bsky.social at #YOW25

[ed: these are all things where I think we've really nailed the usability of getting heatmaps, of using the right aggregation functions and windows, etc. at my employer @honeycomb.io; as the speaker is saying data is not a line, it is a shape] #YOW25

A smoothed line graphed over the spiky line.

Windowing and smoothing matters. #YOW25

"squinting based analysis" with Yao Yue of IOP Systems on a conference stage

Yes! Don't make a debugging face, make the data insight obvious in the visualisations rather than smudging things into abstract Borgmon art. @thinkingfish.bsky.social @ #YOW25

#YOW25 day 2, being led in a deeply philosophical discussion with Michael Feathers on how we can extend ourselves better in defining meaning when we define things

Live coded music at #YOW25 with @samaaron.bsky.social
Awesome!

Last session of the day is a musical performance and talk from @samaaron.bsky.social with Sonic Pi. #YOW25

The slide says: PROGRAMMING The Past Present and Future Kevlin Henney

Already getting some laughs. @kevlin.bsky.social is giving the perfect talk for this part of day. #YOW25

The slide says: Branchless programming CPU's have big pipelines of instructions Your code needs to fill this pipeline, fast. Which instruction comes 'next' after an IF-statement? Branches are often bottlenecks.

Branchless programming for code optimisation. @royvanrijn.com ‘s talk on processing a billion rows with Java is full of cool tricks. #yow25

Geeking out with @brunty.me at #YOW25

A man speaking at a conference in front of a slide showing a fork in the road between transactions and replication

A lot of what @jimwebber.org says is not things I’m going to write on the internet.

But #YOW25 attendees are getting a treat.