Jo Minney

@jominney.bsky.social

Maker, cat lady, coder, feminist. In data we trust 💜

I'm running my presenter workshop on Zoom next month, on a West Coast / AU / NZ friendly (well, friendlier) schedule. It is AWESOME, and you should TOTALLY JOIN IT and LEARN HOW TO DO KICK-ASS PRESENTATIONS. £50 off tickets with the code BSKY50: www.eventbrite.com/e/1987043570810/?discount=BSKY50

From Keyboard To Keynote: Crafting Great Technical Talks

A live online workshop led by Dylan Beattie, all about how to create, rehearse, and deliver great technical presentations.

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Watch as @jominney.bsky.social cuts through the confusion around software architecture and shows how small Laravel teams can make pragmatic, context driven decisions. A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇

I’ve been trying to decide what fun design to add to this dress for next year, and I think I’ve settled on “All I want for Christmas is POCKETS” and then also I will add pockets to it.

Jo wears a belted dress with a bright green bodice and bright red skirt with a Christmas print that comes to about mid calf. Jo shows off her elf earrings and Merry and Bright headband

Tonight was our Spacecubed Christmas party. I got to debut these amazing earrings that my niecey bought me earlier in the year! Also when I say “I’ll be there with bells on” in December I mean it literally… 🔔 #elfie day13

Ross and Jo stand in a foyer surrounded by a pleasant combination of tile, furnishings and indoor plants. Ross wears a navy blue t-shirt with tiny pictures of Australian animals in Christmas hats and native flowers. Jo wears a dress with a red skirt, with cats in Christmas hats around the bottom. Behind and above these meowgical kitties is musical manuscript. Jo wears a ridiculous tiny black sequined Christmas top hat and giant Christmas cat earrings featuring a ragdoll cat just like Lolly!A closeup of Jo’s earrings. A smaller red sparkly acrylic disc above a much larger clear acrylic disc. On the large disc is a blue point ragdoll surrounded by a Christmas wreath.A closeup of Jo’s “Jingle” brooch, because when she says “I’ll be there with bells on” in December, she means it literally.

#elfies days 11 & 12 are brought to you by our air conditioning going from “sparks flying” to “Christmas sweaters in summer”. Also Elmo, and because the photo taken this evening is difficult to see, here’s a flashback to a past elfie with Elmo’s biggest fan a few years back.

Jo stands outside a shopping centre underneath two giant lit up candy canes below a Merry Christmas sign. She has her hands in the pockets of her Christmas print pants and a red shirt with Elmo in a wreath that reads “Santa’s Little Helper”.A screenshot of an Instagram story from December 2021. It includes the hashtag #SantasLittleHelper and tags username @elmobanditz, better known as Agata Dharma. The photo is of Jo in her red Elmo shirt that reads “Santa’s Little Helper”. She is accompanied by Agata who has a big grin on her face. Jo’s hair is much shorter than it is now and she’s about 20kg smaller… Jo wears a white knitted sweater. It has a rather messy cross-stitch pattern in red wool that reads “Reindeer are better than people”. It has a cross stitch style reindeer on it.Jo wears her favourite ugly Christmas sweater and black pants with a Christmas print. The sweater is bright green and has llama on it wearing a scarf.

Oops I’m still a day behind… oh well 🤷🏼‍♀️ day 10 was brought to you by Mickey, Minnie and a functioning air conditioner that mean I got to wear these banger pants. Also too busy to get to the nail salon so enjoy my diy-manicure! #elfie

Jo stands in front of a blurred but extremely messy background… she wears dark red tartan track pants with randomly placed white deer silhouettes, and a black t-shirt with the famous Disney mice  under some mistletoe sitting on some wrapped gifts.Jo’s hand is held in a gentle claw shape. From thumb to pinky she has: 1. a red base with green french tip and gold accents, 2. A red base and white reindeer face silhouette decal, 3. Half and half red and white white red and gold accents, 4. Green with gold polka dots, 5. Red base with white snowflake decal. The whole manicure is using Lily & Fox nail stickers so while it looks very impressive it took exactly zero skill to apply.

Today we picked up Lolly from the cattery so obviously I wore my favourite Pusheen Christmas shirt in her honour. One of us is way more enthusiastic about this photo than the other 😜 - Day 4 #elfie

Jo stands in the hallway wearing a Pusheen Christmas shirt and black leggings with colourful Christmas decorations on them. She holds Lolly the ragdoll cat in her right arm. Lolly seems to be only barely tolerant of the situation.