Letter to self,
For when you are feeling low, use this list to remind yourself of how much awesome stuff you’ve done. #HumbleBrag
Table of Contents
Events I’ve helped organise/presented at
Sydney Testers
- Dice game 15/01
- Social catch up 17/01
- Communication Workshop 28/01
- Quality coaching: discussion panel 12/02
- Becoming more technical workshop 24/02
- Becoming more technical workshop 28/02
- Automation uni day 1 06/03
- API Testing 04/04
- Return to work discussion panel 08/05
- Performance Testing 09/05
- Testing in DevOps 27/06
- Yow Night ! Jed 02/07
- Interview Clinic 04/07
- Beyond TDD (colab with YOW! Night) 27/07
- Agile Testing
- Equal Experts
- Android meetup
Other events
- Robotics workshop at Marina’s 12/01
- Dino brown bag “Team Toxins Workshop” at Challenger 21/01
- Shadowrun pen and paper RPG Campaign day 2 16/02
- Cocoaheads meetup 21/02
- Technical presentations for women who code 27/02
- Newcastle Coders meetup 06/03
- DDD Night Sydney 30/05
- My own 30th birthday party 16/06
- Boardgame cruise
- Women’s Cricket
Live Exploratory testing
Started doing live testing on twitch
Blogs I’ve published
- Trip to Tassie 01/01
- Sydney Testers for 2019 03/01
- 2018 a year in review 03/01
- Factfulness book review 03/01
- Next career move 10/01
- #100DaysOfLinkedIn Challenge 20/01
- Lessons in Sales: Naked Wines 22/01
- Orders of Communication 24/01
- Becoming a Quality Coach 04/02
- Let’s talk about bias 05/02
- Self care and spoon theory 05/02
- Soap opera testing 13/02
- Visual risk and UI automation 19/02
- Awesome Marketing with Edward Zia 23/02
- Going from I to You in marketing 25/02
- My 3/4 Vegan March challenge 25/02
- Tails of Fail 01/03
- Ticca 2019 Overview 01/03
- Test Automation Uni – Day 1 10/03
- Job applications are BROKEN 12/03
- 70 days into #100DaysOfLinkedIn 22/03
- Personal Branding: The Business Card 02/04
- Turning 30 09/06
- How I got my current role 19/06
Meetups I’ve attended
- Marketing 15/01
- Sydney Tech Leaders 24/01
- Node Sydney 07/02
- Sydney Serverless 14/02
- Android Sydney 19/02
- Cocoaheads Sydney 21/02
Books I’ve read
- Factfulness
- Key Person of Influence
- Gut
- The Risk-Driven Business model
- Leaders eat last
- How to win friends and influence people
- The DevOps Handbook
- Norse Mythology
- The Trauma Cleaner
- Accelerate
Conferences
Spoken At
- Ticca 01/03
- Dev/World
- GDG Sydney
Attended
- YOW! Data
- YOW! Lambda Jam
- Agile Australia
- Serverless Sydney
- DDD Sydney
- YOW! CTO Summit
- YOW! Sydney
Other Awesome stuff
- LinkedIn experimental CV (over 30,000 views)
- Helped promote Michael Bolton’s training 12/02
- Secured a part time developer evangelist role with YOW! (getting paid to attend tech meetups, woohoo)
- Built a partnership with Amy Smith for career coaching
- Migrated my blog from samanthaconnelly.com to bughuntersam.com (i.e. compare Janaury blog links to February’s)
Will create courses for
- Ministry of Testing
- Mobile testing on Udemy
Completed the following courses
Started the following courses
Written a book
Work in progress
Built an App
Also a work in progress