DamianM
@damianm.com
Technical Director @yowconf.bsky.social Also Consultant CTO, Software Architecture Trainer, Software Developer. Expect Tech, Coffee, Bikes, Guitars, Cars and Road Trips, and Nonsense Doing too much at once. 🇦🇺 QLD, Australia https://damianm.com
This sums up my feelings on the term "content creator" so well.
Fernando Gros@fernandogros.com · last wk."Silicon Valley tried to turn artists into content creators. Now they are trying to replace content with AI slop. Algorithms and search engines tried to force us to make all our work look and feel the same. Averaging out the differences that make unique voices stand out."
My most recent update to Nimbus, I'm supporting RabbitMQ and @lavinmq.com now. damianm.com/posts/2026/r...
RabbitMQ and LavinMQ Support in Nimbus | Damian Maclennan
TLDR: Nimbus now has a native RabbitMQ transport. Details and docs here. In the beginning, Nimbus only spoke Azure Service Bus. If a project needed RabbitMQ we reached for MassTransit, which is excell...
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After 4+ years spent tinkering, Bravest Coconut is available on Steam. It's a Point & Click Adventure with no pointing and clicking, taking the quirky puzzles from games like Monkey Island and mixing with the exploration and action of retro Zeldas: s.team/a/2913190 #Godot #PixelArt #IndieGame
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Bravest Coconut is a Point & Click Adventure game without pointing and clicking. Help Coco the cat as her quest to return a library book becomes much more complicated than she thought. Solve story...
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This was one of my favourite talks from last years @yowconf.bsky.social
GOTO Conferences@gotocon.com · 2mo agoAI won't replace engineering judgment. At @yowconf.bsky.social, @kentbeck.com explained why the future belongs to developers who learn faster, preserve optionality, and use AI as a partner—not a shortcut. Watch the full talk: youtu.be/sMujMp4h_EY?...
If you see this, post an archer
Six {So, what now?}@adhdbusiness.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you see this, post an archer
We love a good LOTR reference! Thrilled to have Prakriti join #YOWTLS26 in Melbourne to share Culture Amp’s lessons when rebuilding their 2nd largest product - Performance
Justin Mclean now joins #YOWTLS26 in Melbourne to share real lessons from open source projects that have scaled without collapsing under their own weight.
Brisbane - Our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit opens tomorrow! Last chance to grab your ticket: yowcon.com/tech-leaders... #YOWTLS26
#YOWTLS26 in Melbourne kicks off this morning with our Technical Director @damianm.com! Photo by @micheleplayfair.bsky.social
I've found the mental hack to force myself out of bed to ride my bike by myself in the morning. If I don't ride in the morning, I'll run in the evening. I hate running so much. So this morning: "I don't want to ride" "I could go back to bed and run tonight" "Fuck that, I'll RIDE THE BIKE NOW".
New Marten capability: www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant...
Semantic Search with Marten and Pgvector
is a new extension to Marten that adds vector-similarity support to Marten on top of the pgvector PostgreSQL extension. It is published from the Marten repo under the MIT license and ships as the NuGe...
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I just found this in my notes from August 2020. 2020 - A Haiku Can you hear me now? Can everybody see my screen? Sorry Dave, you’re on mute
Fun with benchmarking different message brokers. @synadia.bsky.social NATS is really fast! damianm.com/posts/2026/f...
Fun with Nimbus Benchmarks - NATS is Fast! | Damian Maclennan
For fun and curiosity, I recently decided to build a little console app to run some benchmarks across the various transports. It was driven by finishing up the NATS implementation, I knew that NATS is...
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Introducing the Critter Stack AI Skills jeremydmiller.com/2026/05/20/i... #dotnet
Introducing the Critter Stack AI Skills
Babu Annamalai and I have been working very hard on JasperFx Software’s officially curated AI Skills for the “Critter Stack,” and I’m very pleased to announce today that the…
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We're super excited to have @stringyland.bsky.social joining #YOWTLS26! If your team has started the accessibility journey but struggles to sustain its implementation in the long term, her talk is for you. 🎟️ Melbourne 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... 🎟️ Brisbane 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
stringy@stringyland.bsky.social · 3mo agoWanna join me at YOW Tech Leaders Summit in June? If you need to level up accessibility for your team, you should! Melbourne 16 June: yowcon.com/tech-leaders... and Brisbane 17 June: yowcon.com/tech-leaders... Tagging in @yowconf.bsky.social
Nostalgic today listening to the release of an album from one of Jackie Orszaczky's gigs at the Rose in 2001. Anybody who witnessed a Tuesday night at the Rose in that era will remember them as nothing short of magic. Listening to this puts me right back in the bar tidal.com/album/521333...
Jackie Orszaczky - Live At The Rose
Listen to Live At The Rose on TIDAL
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I’ve just been doing some relatively unscientific benchmarks. And holy crap NATS is quick. NATS core is not much slower than just in memory message handling, and even with JetStream persistence turned on it’s much faster than Redis.
DamianM@damianm.com · 4mo agoNew post. I just released a new backend transport for Nimbus. You can now use it to build .NET apps with @synadia.bsky.social damianm.com/posts/2026/n...
We’re launching our 1st #YOW26 Masterclass with @allenholub.bsky.social: Practical Software Architecture for AI (And Everything Else) 🎟️ Save $180 with promo code 'earlybirdclass' ⏳ Limited tickets until 30 Jun 📍 MEL 2 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-20... 📍 BNE 9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-202...
New post. I just released a new backend transport for Nimbus. You can now use it to build .NET apps with @synadia.bsky.social damianm.com/posts/2026/n...
Nimbus now supports NATS.io | Damian Maclennan
I just shipped a new Nimbus transport for the NATS messaging system. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and with this release, I think it makes Nimbus an excellent option for using NATS...
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I'm going to be at YOW Tech Leaders Summit, helping you with accessibility - if you join us! Lots of great talks that I'm excited for too, just an all-round good time I reckon #YOWTLS26
YOW! Conferences@yowconf.bsky.social · 4mo agoMost teams care about accessibility. But over time, it slips. At #YOWTLS26, Julie is focusing on what comes next & making accessibility stick. If your team struggles to sustain it, this one's for you. 🎟️ MEL 16 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders... 🎟️ BNE 17 Jun yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
I bought this based on @anildash.com's review. Just arrived. This is my weekend reading sorted.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 4mo agoI think 99% of business and tech books are bullshit, but Crisis Engineering is that rare one that's actually insightful, because it captures insights from people who've actually managed crises, and teaches how to navigate your way out of them in a rational way. www.anildash.com/2026/04/08/w...
We're blacksmiths. Some of what we know transfers to this new world. Some of it doesn't. Figuring out which is which is our next greatest challenge. 🎧 Still Burning ep. 1 —
Nobody Knows
Podcast Episode · Still Burning · March 25 · 44m
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Apple Music wants to make me feel old. I mean, Shake Your Money Maker is a great (classic even) rock album, but it was the 90s FFS! It's not Abbey Road.
I've been talking about this topic at meetups and conferences for ages now, I finally put it into words. damianm.com/posts/2026/h...
Human Shaped Microservices | Damian Maclennan
Imagine you’re at a restaurant. You sit down, the waiter comes over, and you ask if you can order a burger. The waiter nods, turns around, walks to the kitchen, leans over the pass, and asks the chef:...
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This could turn into an incredibly fun project. @fernandogros.com have you seen this yet?
Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · 6mo agoNot quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at
I've started trialling @plausible.io as a Google Analytics replacement and it looks great. It's simple, no evil tracking, and just shows me what I want. It's a super nice onboarding experience too. Impressed so far.
