Holly on stage speaking. She is wearing black pants and black shirt.

Slide with a solution called "LightSwitchOps. Making turning servers off as safe and easy as turning lights off. And then automate it."

Slide saying "we used to leave our applications running all the time. When we scripted tuning them off at night, we reduced our cloud bill by 30%"

Slide with an automation solution called "daily clean"

"You can save a lot of money and energy by simply 'turning things off' when they don't need to run". @holly_cummins on saving energy, being efficient, and providing us with automation tools to achieve this.

#YOWconf #YOW24 @yowconf.bsky.social

Allen on stage speaking to an audience. The slide on screen says "google tax, Slashdot tax" and some lines drawn on the screen

Allen on stage talking to people with the word "Agile" on screen.

Great takeaways from @allenholub.bsky.social's Day 1 Locknote:
✅️ don't use the word "agile"
✅️ if you want to try something, make a business case (means showing the $ value)
✅️ mob programming saves a lot of time and $ in the long run

#YOWconf #YOW24 @yowconf.bsky.social

Sydney city Skyline with harbour Bridge and Opera house on the left hand side. Taken from the plane. There's a plane engine in the bottom left hand corner.

Made it to Sydney for #YOWconf ❤️. Who's here? Come say hi over the next two days.

#YOW24 @yowconf.bsky.social

Another year another #yowconf. always a pleasure to be track hosting.

Brisbane city skyline with a lot of overcast clouds. Taken from a plane, a plane engine is in the bottom left hand corner.

👋 Brisbane

Talk is an hour after landing, come and see me after I flew all the way up here 😅

#YOW24 #YOWconf @yowconf.bsky.social

Planes lined up at the terminal in Melbourne

Selfie, wearing a red tshirt and black suit jacket. Standing in front of a decorated Christmas tree

The things you do for #YOWconf

I'm at the airport heading to Brisbane on our 1st wedding anniversary... without my husband 😭 but I'll be back home tonight 🤍

If you're in Brisbane for @yowconf.bsky.social come say hi. Only here for Day 1.

There are 4 men in front of a pink and purple screen. The screen says YOW BAND and shows some lines of code. One man is writing the code at a laptop. The other 3 are playing instruments: a clarinet, another wind instrument and a guitar

Flashback 2018 when we ended up with a #yowconf band - Sam Aaron live coding music with Sonic Pi plus @chadfowler.bsky.social Chris Ford and @kentbeck.bsky.social 🎶

Last word: shout-out to the podcast, next guest is the "coolest guy in tech" and #yowconf alum Sam Aaron
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A red and blue Toad plushie from the Super Mario Bros franchise

Won these adorable plushies at the Liberty booth 😍 Claw machine for the win - first shot for each one ❤️.

#YOWconf @yowconf.bsky.social

If anyone wants to follow along, I'll try and find all the people from #YOWconf

Tagging folks from photos… @micheleplayfair.bsky.social @noopkat.fragile.systems @giacomocavalieri.me #yowconf

A slide of ant facts

Suz then explains how she used an ant farm to seed her home-rolled home-crypto algorithm. This is the "I built something ridiculous" conference content I'm here for.

"If I was going to base an algorithm on them, I needed to know whether ants had long sleeps, or if they just napped."

#YowConf

A speaker in front of a slide of an array of lava lamps

Wow. Suz Hinton at #YowConf is showing how CloudFlare use an array of lava lamps as a seed for a pseudo-random generator (based on the Lavarand algorithm).

More details here: blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-1...

A selfie of a man and woman on an airplane

Heading to Melbs for YOW Conference. Looking forward to catching up with everyone! ❤️ #yowconf