What I have found gripping

• Within a team/a group each person brings valuable information, skills and/or experiences

• Having enough content for a new talk and a list of further resources

• There is such a thing as a cultural event without unpaid volunteers thanks to a solid business model and a large community of supporters

• Collaborative work is highly dependent on the environment we co-create and having complementary skills in addition to communicating

• Spaces where it is a norm to ask questions and/or ask for help remain vibrant

• Going over events and thinking about which I could attend

• Live coding is a skill to hone through deliberate practice and in real conditions to gather feedback

• Showing skills is better than telling folks about them provided one is in an environment where they are valued

• Diversifying one’s readings leads to new insights

• Looking at systems is fascinating

• Being an early adopter of new services and/or products may sometimes mean documenting, providing feedback and teaching folks about them

What I have read

• The Kids Are Alright (So Let’s Team Up!), Jared White

• Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto, Jake Lazaroff

• No one is self-made, Dr. Kay Coghill

• Blacksky Algorithms’ Policy Towards Agentic Coding, Blacksky’s team

• Shirley Ann Jackson, Center on Science and Technology (Princeton)

• The Remarkable Career of Shirley Ann Jackson, Amanda Schaffer

• They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead, Jessica Lyons

• Les Français consomment de moins en moins de culture mais la considèrent essentielle à leur qualité de vie, Pierre Ropert & Éric Chaverou

• Les paysages sonores : un patrimoine naturel méconnu, Cyprian Czaban, Julie Trottier et al.

• Recourir à une IA quand on n’est pas médecin n’aide pas à poser un meilleur diagnostic, Rebecca Payne

What I have watched

Computer History Museum: Shirley, Stephanie, Oral History

The legacy of physicist Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, ABC News

Featured quote

When you go together, you go further. Look for a crew, community (I wish I had Stemettes) to celebrate with, commiserate with and learn alongside. — Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon

Further reading and resources

In English

• Nailing Your Live Coding Job Interview in Ruby, Tom Dalling

• Dame Stephanie’s website

• Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon’s website

• Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Wikipedia page)

• Soundscapes: Paintings, National Gallery

In French

• Une histoire des paysages sonores, France Culture

• Les femmes s’animent : Célia Sayaphoum (portrait)

• Les femmes s’animent (non-profit supporting women in animation)

• Célia Sayaphoum’s website (sound designer)