Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻

Dad. Dad-Rock enthusiast. A kiwi dev based in Adelaide.
@PANDAAustralia Community Champion. 🦣 @[email protected]

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

Feeling pretty privileged to have spent the past 2 days learning about .NET Aspire & https://t.co/EuGSEoBy21 Core 8 from these two guys at #ndcsydney2024.

Cheers @davidfowl & @DamianEdwards!

[Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 @GaryPetersonUSA]

Under President Trump, everyone will get an orange whip.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

The Trautonium. Invented early 1930s. Just listen to this thing.

[Anthony Alaribe {···} @tonialaribe]

This is what peak OOP looks like 🔥🔥

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Wendy's pricing snafu is a reminder of how hard these fast food chains try to optimize menu design.

McDonald's — which sells to ~1% of the world every day — did a digital menu redesign a few years ago and it boosted sales.

Here are 6 design psychology choices it made:

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

Had a fantastic time at #NDCSydney. Highlight of the conference were the talks by @david_whitney. Treating code as literature really resonated. Also feeling more grounded about best practices and clean code. "Fuck it, it depends" really would've made for a great title 😂

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

It's not often you get the chance to have lunch with the C# Program Manager, Mads Torgersen. What a nice guy! #ndc #ndcsydney #ndcsydney2024

[XBOX @XBOX]

The perfect way to play Bluey The Videogame: with a #Bluey Xbox!

Follow and RT with #BlueyXboxSweepstakes for a chance to win a custom @OfficialBlueyTV Xbox Series X & controller.

Ages 18+. Ends 12/13/23. Rules: https://t.co/o7jQCwIfzY

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

@Shortwave Few years back when I was providing Level 2 support I copy/pasted a standard reply without removing the placeholder text, resulting in signing off with kisses and hugs: "Cheers, xox"🤦

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

@delphijunkie Tagging in!

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

I get all my new music recommendations from @daniel_mcc_

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

@delphijunkie Remedy Lane is terrific

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

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[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[Gabrielle Bluestone @g_bluestone]

Bolsanaro health conditions, ranked

[NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASAJohnson]

Time lapse footage from @NASA_Orion as #Artemis I journeys to the Moon. Orion is scheduled to make its closest approach to the vicinity of the Moon on Nov. 21.🌙

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

Wait. The Scarecrow had a gun?!

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

@Arowin @daniel_mcc_ @phenomnominal Still got an old Lumia kicking around maybe? Think I've got a 920 somewhere. Good times.

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

Turns out @phenomnominal was right all along. Let It Go is a bit of a banger after about 1000 listens.

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

Playing doctors with Miss 3. I have been diagnosed with a spider in the throat which she plans to remove using a series of special "throat needles". 😬

[Owen Symes 👨🏼‍💻 @owensymes]

@daniel_mcc_ @phenomnominal I reckon I could rig this up using Google Home and Google Routines no problem!