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Monki Gras

5 months

Monki Gras, the tech conference about Software, Craft, and Tech Culture, returns March 14th and 15th. The theme this year is Prompting Craft: the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

important topic. @FarrahC32 and @brooke_jamieson on the gap between the users of AI, and the people building it. Really great to have @awscloud people driving this conversation. Two awesome women, kicking ass and challenging the status quo. Also - super shiny jackets!

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Cheers to one of our amazing sponsors for buying us a round @ScreenlyApp , the table beer was truly excellent. #monkigrasBeers

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

proper sold out.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 months

apparently our first post was 12 years ago today. well - guess what's coming soon?

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

We have a theme for 2019 - Accessible Craft. so we're looking for speakers on accessibility in all forms. Expect talks on closed captioning, guilds, great documentation, designing for inclusion and democratising technology. Dates 31 Jan/1 Feb 2019. tickets on sale shortly

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

Monki Gras, the tech conference about Software, Craft, and Tech Culture, returns January 31 and Feb 1st 2019. The theme this year is Accessible Craft: Creating great experiences for everyone.

Monki Gras

The developer conference about craft culture

monkigras.com

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

is thinking about themes and dates for 2025.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

We seem to be like, totally sold out. No surprise but it's been fun to see a few last minute tickets get picked up in the last few days.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

oh go on then. we are SUPER EXCITED to announce @mipsytipsy is coming to throw down some science @monkigras 2018 london feb 1/2

Charity Majors

@mipsytipsy

7 years

Monitoring is for operating software/systems Instrumentation is for writing software Observability is for understanding systems

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

Thanks so much for the @snyksec snack sponsorship. Here is @monkchips with @sjmaple , one of the best java evangelists on the olanet

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

we're sold out

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

team @monkigras is very excited to announce that @_notwaving has agreed to manage our diversity, inclusion and accessibility program again. we're so lucky!

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 months

We are so back. Monki Gras 2024 in Shoreditch, London, March 14th and 15th, the pre-Kubecon party, will examine the social and craft aspects of generative AI and prompt engineering. See you there. tix on sale call for papers open ready for sponsorship

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

who wants some more @monkigras videos to go online?

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

It's a wrap

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

our Heads of Drinks acquisitions just turned up something rather marvelous. Next week @monkigras you'll get a chance to meet a new brewery staffed entirely by women, and drink some of their beer of course.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

so who's coming next week? we're getting proper excited. tell your friends, tell your family. so many lovely speakers, agenda going live in an hour

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

The web was accessible, then we broke it. “We are forgetting the simplicity that is inherent in the #design of the #web right from the start. We are over-complicating it and this is how we are locking people out.” - @brucel #MonkiGras

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

our production manager Saff just proudly that declared that this year we had the least food waste ever @monkigras . #sustainingcraft

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@monkigras

6 years

important point from @JoniSaylor . you need to create spaces that makers want to work in. so now IBM has 44 design studios worldwide. eg one in hursley.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

big shout out to @CodeYourFuture_ . the cohort that attended @monkigras were all so lovely. you're doing amazing work, and we look forward to finding ways to collaborate more closely

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

almost indecently excited with our speaker lineup, especially now it's updated with our sustainable fashion crew - @OliviaPinnock @TheGiuce @elvisandkresse @Bottletoppers #sustainingcraft #craftjeans #sustainableluxury #slowfashion

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

It's @dynamicwebpaige !

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

big shout out today to two amazing women that do so much to make @monkigras an excellent and unique event. thanks @saffgov and @_notwaving for all your incredible work on production and and D&I. you provide the balance which makes us better. #IWD2019

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

2 months

just a quick reminder of @monkigras . nice work sponsoring the glassware @mongodb !

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

hard to measure how happy this picture makes us. @hackerfemo is a force of nature. we can't wait to hear his mother @gowolade , another force of nature, speaking at @monkigras . and of course @redhat is a sponsor. win!!!

Red Hat

@RedHat

5 years

Today’s curriculum was designed by @hackerfemo . And it was a hit! Naturally, we’ll be posting the curriculum on @GitHub soon for others to access, build upon and share. You can check out previous #RedHatCOLAB workshop curriculums here:

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

What do you know about Accessible music instruments? We suspect not much. So come check out @RedRoxProjects , who is joining us to tell us more about making playing music more accessible. @monkigras is looking ever more epic this year.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

thanks so much to @digitalocean for sponsoring our diversity and inclusion program. it's enabling us to do some amazing and exciting things!

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

"documentation is your opportunity to package your software around jobs to be done." this is a fabulous talk. thanks @kiyototamura

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

so clever. ideas like turning an MRI scan into an adventure for kids. reduce sedation to children by 80%. lessons from @Samiya79 talk.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

getting excited now. here's a direct quote from our beer guy. be there or be sad. some tix still available. "we have a gorgeous set of beers and the greatest _selection_ we have ever had at Monki Gras!"

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

💯

Ben Hall

@Ben_Hall

3 months

The best way to start discussing what I'm building next is by buying a round of drinks @monkigras ! - Transforming Codebases Into Tailored Learning Experiences

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

rumour is somebody posted an agenda

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

Found a few spare glasses. Any local @monkigras alumni fancy a couple of these beauties? @dletorey will also throw in a couple of lovely beers from this year's monkigras

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

8 years

this talk makes ibm look good and developer friendly in a surprising and awesome way. @knolleary is so great. #unmarketing .

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@monkigras

5 years

Thanks to @citusdata for buying a round @monkigras . Lovely sour raspberry flavours from @GipsyHillBrew , went really well with the orange polenta cake.

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@monkigras

7 years

it's 12:18pm and we're cracking open some cans of beer. seems we have some last minute tasting to do. oh the things we do for you...

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

went with card lanyards, because we don't want to add to the plastic mountain. they look ace!

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Forgot to say my traditional "it's a wrap!"

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

we are super excited to have @emileifrem , the OG of graph data, talking about LLMs and avoiding hallucinations with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). He's one of the great educators in this industry and it's a real privilege to have him with us.

Neo4j

@neo4j

3 months

Monki Gras, the tech conference about Software, Craft, and Tech Culture is happening on March 14th and 15th, and @emileifrem is part of it to talk about graphs and #GenAI :) 📍 London - More info: @monkigras @monkchips #Neo4j

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Lovely intro to @CodeYourFuture by Afshar Hussein.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

this is what company founders with PhDs look like.

MSFT Accessibility

@MSFTEnable

6 years

Congratulations @Zyrobotics for being selected as the first AI for Accessibility grantee! Check out the program and apply now. #AIforGood #A11y

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

so we have some amazing new speakers confirmed

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

8 years

all conferences have talks by PhDs in medievalism, right? thanks @apprenda for supporting kellyann in getting here.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

9 years

you should buy your ticket now welcome to the Software And Crafts movement. amazing talks, food, beer, people

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

🤯

Lily Townsend

@lilytownsend23

3 months

TIL that adults are actually better at learning languages than children. Loving this talk from @KFosterMarks , comparing second language acquisition to fluency in learning programming and “speaking code” @monkigras

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Learning AI like learning the Lindy hop. @alexwlchan on the importance of starting small.

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@monkigras

3 months

Thank you @akamai for sponsoring the closed captioning at @monkigras . Accessibility matters so much for healthy, vibrant communities. Captioning makes events better for everyone.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

strong recommend. kresse of @elvisandkresse was one of the most compelling presenters we've ever had @monkigras . a powerhouse, turning used firehoses into high fashion.

FashNerd

@FashNerd

6 years

Tonight @FashNerdEditor will be a member of Fashion Tech Bytes panel. The conversation will focus on sustainability and manufacturing and the wonderful things that are taking place within the fashion industry. See you there? #sustainability #fashion #manufacturing

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

cheese mountain sponsored. achievement unlocked. more details to follow shortly.

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@monkigras

6 years

super happy to announce that @digitalocean is sponsoring our diversity and inclusion program for 2018. see you on Feb 1st/2nd

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

So @FarrahC32 is "non-technical" but has been creating apps using @awscloud partyrock. I like this prompting craft framework she uses for experimentation #monkigras

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

Big hug to @digitalocean for supporting our diversity and inclusion program. So many great people here

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

so @monkchips did some bullying to get people into the auditorium. bad. but silence apart from the speakers? gold.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

wow. @ThinkingType talking about the difference between type and lettering. type is all about place and site specificity. think about light materials and specificity

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Us too!

Joe Pindar

@joepindar

3 months

🤯😀 the talk I was hoping for @monkigras by @patrickdebois 🙌👏👏👏

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

Yasssss @RaineyDav and @postwait #monkigras #redmonk

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

@digitalocean and our friends @moo . we love moo. moo's so great. lovely business cards for our lovely diversity and inclusion scholars 🌈🎇🎆🐮

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

5 years ago we had a new brewery called @BeavertownBeer on stage, featured their beers and learned about their unique design story. today they announced exciting expansions plans and a minority investment by @Heineken . congratulations to all of you! #scalingcraft

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

no stella????! fuck sake! 😂😂😂

The Antelope

@theantelopeKT6

6 years

Happy to be a one star pub if this person’s idea of a 5 star pub is anything to go by. 😂

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

If you don't have the Developer Success Lab talking at your tech event in 2024 what are you even doing?

Developer Success Lab at Flow

The Flow Developer Success Lab is a team of research scientists committed to advancing our understanding of how software developers work, learn, and thrive with evidence-based research focused on...

www.pluralsight.com

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

3 months

Open source has entered the chat. @lmarsden giving us the low down on the speed at which open source models are challenging closed source models in 2024. There is potentially a reckoning at hand.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

8 years

great set of sponsors already lined up: @pivotal @HPE_Cloud @RedHatNews @EclipseFdn @funcatron

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

8 years

our 2017 theme is "packaging", not "packing"! great photo of @aondio_ from @varnishsoftware one of our speakers tho

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

we never published our beer menu for this year's event. i bet you'd like to see it though wouldn't you? pretty incredible list.

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@monkigras

6 years

we're making a madness! monkigras is go

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

Monkigras ;-)

Tracy Miranda

@tracymiranda

6 years

@rstephensme @monkigras As promised the glorious cheese mountain! ⛰️

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@monkigras

3 months

putting on a community event like monkigras would be literally impossible without sponsors. we're grateful to @awscloud for helping us put on a great show.

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@monkigras

3 months

this is what putting on a conference feels like

Nick St. Pierre

@nickfloats

3 months

Accelerating

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@monkigras

5 years

. @andiamohq is a startup that helps kids to walk with 3d printing. it's had an incredible 18 months. Ross Tierny and Niven Curtis-Woodcock are joining us at @monkigras to discuss the challenges that the design and engineering team face on a daily basis.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

there is way too much casual sexism in beer marketing so this is super refreshing. #DressLikeAWoman

Gipsy Hill Brewing Co.

@GipsyHillBrew

7 years

Aviator has landed. Our new cask feat Millie (DF assistant manager). Launching Monday. #gipsyhillbrew #aviator #cask #craft

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

best #monkigras comment ever. "I was nodding so vigorously throughout, that I thought the person next to me might think i was ill"

Natalie Haigh

@mercury1nat

6 years

@mnowster @monkigras I really loved your talk because I really related to it. I was nodding so vigorously throughout, that I thought the person next to me might think i was ill. Sorry i didn't get a chance to say hi in person.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

6 years

Sustainable fashion panel @monkigras . What can software learn from another industry?

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

7 years

. @Percona is using prometheus, consul and grafana for dashboards. @bytebot #monkigras

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

8 years

our lovely sponsors - @redhat @ibm @perforce @apprenda @cloudera @polycount @mapr @acloudguru - supporting craft

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@monkigras

6 years

this seems like an *excellent* topic for conversation. friday afternoon at the Social maybe we can do a little roundtable

Matthew (he/him) ❤️

@MaximumGilliard

6 years

@thomleg and I work in a senior-heavy software team. Would anyone going to @monkigras be interested in sharing ideas on how to make it an excellent place for grad/early-career engineers to join & stay? We'd love to talk about it!

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

Morning! Ready for Day 2? #MonkiGras

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@monkigras

5 years

if you work at @RedHat you should be proud your employer is supporting @gowolade and @hackerfemo - they're doing stunning edtech work in London. here is Grace telling her story

Young Coders, Community and Open Source | Grace Owolade-Coombes |...

Building inclusive communities of young coders who have the confidence to determine their own pathways into technology is vital if we are going to ensure div...

www.youtube.com

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@monkigras

7 years

don't forget our diversity scholarship, sponsored by @EclipseFdn . if you're from an underrepresented group in tech we're happy to comp you

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@monkigras

6 years

oh my goodness - we're selling all the tickets.

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@monkigras

7 years

"packaging is just story". we really love @austencollins . this talk is already AMAZING

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

so how just great is that @bjfletcher talk - have you all watched it again yet? should we put one up from @alexwlchan up this weekend? thanks again to @weaveworks for sponsoring the conference video

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

9 years

i just sold 10 tickets in about 20 minutes after midnight. even better- 40% of the sales were to women. very very pleasing.

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Monki Gras

@monkigras

5 years

access to capital for under-represented groups is crucial to moving forward as a society. @sukifuller is coming to @monkigras to lay down the science. co lead of the 50/50 pledge to increase the number of women that get funded.

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@monkigras

7 years

what @monadic wants, he gets. we're definitely going the extra mile for this coffee sponsorship.

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@monkigras

5 years

this post is extremely interesting about the similarities and differences between academic and tech conferences. also questions of accessibility of content and knowledge

Dr KellyAnn Fitzpatrick

@drkellyannfitz

5 years

Some thoughts on conferences as I get ready to hop on a plane for @monkigras !

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@monkigras

2 months

@sogrady What?

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@monkigras

7 years

this is some next level shit. @kentbeck interviewing @PartizanBrewing . definitely only @monkigras

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@monkigras

6 years

thanks to all our lovely sponsors! you are awesome @pivotal @redhat @digitalocean @honeycombio @CloudNativeFdn @MOO @Cisco @snyksec

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@monkigras

3 months

😍

Christie Fidura

@cfidurauk

3 months

Excited to pick up 2x Unsung Heroes comics @monkigras , celebrating the history of the IT industry.

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@monkigras

7 years

TFW you're basically finished your tech talks and @KentBeck pops in.

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@monkigras

3 months

last day of hustle and @monkchips has literally spent all day doing nothing but paying invoices to suppliers.

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@monkigras

7 years

@mnowster @unmadeworks also joining us will be @mandywhaley , a firm favourite at our US sister conference @monktoberfest . great speaker, educator and entertainer!

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@monkigras

6 years

cool beer and jersey cream! @adobe has joined the sponsor roster.

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@monkigras

3 months

one thing about schedules though. how come my sister @monktoberfest gets away without posting one? i love a bit of mystery.

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@monkigras

5 years

blimey. @saffgov has done it again. the @snyksec snack sponsorship is absolutely mad and wonderful and theatrical for friday afternoon

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@monkigras

6 years

"rob - you've got a delivery downstairs mate". music to our ears. that means another beer delivery

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@monkigras

6 years

many of you, especially our lovely speakers, are wondering where the schedule is. those that know @monkchips however, will be astounded to know he's already working on a formal agenda

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@monkigras

5 years

Please sign an objection to this wonderful historic bell foundry being turned into a hotel. The Victoria and Albert museum is now on our side. Find out more here

Spitalfields Life

@thegentleauthor

5 years

Nigel Taylor who worked at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry for 40 years reveals the truth about the closure of the foundry:

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