Scaling a team is one thing - scaling how people grow is another. Selena Small will share how Fresho transformed their approach to growth, performance & development in fast-growing engineering teams at #YOWTLS26. 🎟️ MEL 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... 🎟️ BNE 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

A junior dev fixed a typo. It broke production. That bug eventually led to #SpringCloudContract. @toomuchcoding.com sits down with Jakub Pilimon to talk 15y of Spring, why #observability is missing context & how AI might fix the contract testing adoption problem for good 👇 youtu.be/D-yp3sB8cu0?...

Jon Eaves brings deep, hard-earned insight into 1 of the most persistent challenges in our industry in his talk “How I learned to manage technical debt without talking about it” 🎟️ #YOWTLS26 MEL 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... BNE 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

Announcing our 1st speaker for #YOWTLS26 👀 Ben Taylor asks a question most teams aren’t ready for: What happens when we stop reading code?… and what replaces traditional code review when it no longer scales. 🎟️ Join us in MEL 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... BNE 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

Excited to announce our 1st #YOW26 speaker Cole Medin! He'll share a practical engineering framework when working with AI coding assistants. Learn how to give them the right context, structure tasks they can execute reliably & build validation systems that catch issues before they reach prod

AI hype or real progress? @t-redactyl.bsky.social & @aiwithmichelle.com break it down on GOTO Unscripted 🎤 History, data, and hard-won pragmatism. www.youtube.com/watch?list=P...

Chapters 1-9 now available at learning.oreilly.com/library/view... 🎉

We’ve seen tech change many times over. What hasn’t changed is the value of thoughtful leadership and learning from real experience. Only 5 YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 🐦 Earlybird tickets in Melbourne left! yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

If you’re waiting to feel “ready” before stepping fully into leadership, you might be waiting forever. If you want to invest time in developing leadership skills, #YOWTLS26 Earlybird tickets are now available til 31 Mar. MEL 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... BNE 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

The CFP for this just closed and there are some fantastic talks in there. Obviously I am biased, but the program will be excellent! If you’re a new leader, or looking to scale your org. This will be a great event.

OAuth 2.0 in SPAs isn’t as secure as many think. @philippederyck.bsky.social demonstrates real attacks and how patterns like Backend-for-Frontend can protect modern web apps. Watch the YOW session recording.

We're thrilled to welcome back Easygo as a #YOW26 Melbourne Silver Sponsor! They're the Australian powerhouse behind the world's biggest online casino, pioneering a creator-1st online streaming platform with over 50 million users. easygo.io

It's #MarioDay! 🍄⭐️🚗 Who's up for some Mario kart racing?!

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. yowcon.com/tech-leaders... or yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

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. yowcon.com/tech-leaders... or yowcon.com/tech-leaders... #YOWTLS26 #TechLeadership

Our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit CFP closes tomorrow! Pop in your talk submission today. ✍️ CFP details and submission: yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

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!).

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

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. kotlinconf.com#speakers

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 1/12

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. esafety.gov.au/safer-intern...

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.

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. 1/3

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!

Share the challenges and your experience as a tech leader at the upcoming YOW! Tech Leaders Summit. Our Call for Submissions closes Sat 28 Feb 2026. ✍️ yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

When you move into technical leadership, the work doesn’t get easier. It gets more ambiguous. You’re expected to make decisions with incomplete info. Lead people as smart as (or smarter than) you. Juggle delivery, quality, culture & biz pressure at the same time. 1/3

📢 ADSP Ep 265 is out! 📢 In this episode, I record live from @yowconf.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney 🇦🇺! I talk with @kevlin.bsky.social about his YOW! talk and the future of programming languages, as well as @damianm.com on his first time as Technical Director of YOW! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2025/12/19/E...

It’s the final #YOW25 city - Sydney! We cannot wait to see everyone this morning at the Sofitel Wentworth for the next 2 days.

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/

Geeking out with @brunty.me at #YOW25

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

The enlightening @kentbeck.com at #YOW25 keeping us on track in the days of coding with “the genie”

One of the most visually spectacular presentations I’ve seen. @glycin.bsky.social built a world in Unity to explain Vector databases and algorithms. #yow25

Our #YOW25 volunteers in Melbourne are already hard at work setting up our registration to welcome everyone to the first day of the conference!

Please welcome Vercel as a #YOW25 Melbourne & Sydney Bronze sponsor! 👏 Their AI Cloud provides tools & infrastructure to build, scale & secure intelligent apps. As the most popular DX platform for frontend dev, they help customers for the AI-native web & ship at the speed of ideas. vercel.com

🚀 Quantum is no longer theoretical: it’s here! Hear Matthew Keesan in “After Q-Day: Quantum Applications at Scale” on what happens after Q-Day: when RSA-2048 falls and quantum reshapes security, HPC and problem-solving. Join #YOW25 in MEL 4-5 | BNE 8-9 | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

Crikey, SuperSonic just passed 100 stars on GitHub. That was quick! Thanks so much for all the amazing enthusiasm and support. It means a lot. github.com/samaaron/sup...

This video captures the energy, ideas, and inspiration that make YOW! such a must-attend experience for software professionals. Join us at #YOW25 in your city: MEL 4-5 | BNE 8-9 | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com youtu.be/OyVDBdD09XY?...

I have been learning #Rust for a couple of years, and using it for demos. I thought it would be my fate forever. Last week, I convinced my management that using Rust was the right choice. It’s not a huge project, but I want to describe my experience using Rust in a "real" project.