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Chris Simon
@chrissimon.au
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Empowering technology teams to drive business success.

On an allyship journey | Speaker | Founder | Non-executive Director

Created @contextive.tech, co-founded https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/domain-driven-design-australia/.

Also@ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io
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Loved @codefrenzy.bsky.social 's keynote at #yowtls25 about the dualities of AI in software engineering! For everything we gain in adopting AI, what are we giving up? Learning? Intuition? Quality? Identity?
Smoothing out the terrain: when the terrain is too smooth, will we even notice what we're stepping over?
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Lovely gesture for speakers from @dddmelbourne.bsky.social - by the end of your talk they already have a framed picture of you speaking!
Framed picture of Chris Simon, bearded man in glasses in maroon shirt, speaking at DDD Melbourne.
February 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Day 4 was in Python, but then Day 5 was a nostalgia fest using #QBASIC, the first language I ever cut serious(ish) code in in the early 90s. Amazingly, a community group has kept the magic alive with QB64, a modern IDE and compiler for the QBASIC language- you can even get and run GORILLAS.BAS! 3/6
GORILLAS.BAS open in the QB64 IDE GORILLAS.BAS running, showing Chris vs Advent of Code 2024, with two Gorillas standing on a city skyline preparing to throw bananas at each other.
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Not only does this allow to you respond with complete truth to any job ad looking for a 'Rockstar developer', it also lets you write functions in the style of 80s rock anthems. 2/6
Screenshot of a function in the Rockstar programming language from github: Nothin is Terrifying A Lot is A good-times holleroona knifer-cat ballroom-a aballerina Tall Charlie Wants Potatoes and Cheese Shatter Potatoes into Dumplings let Longest Time be Dumplings and Nothin let How Much be Cheese over Longest Time times a lot turn down How Much let How Much be How Much between a lot let Something be Potatoes times How Much Giving Something
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM