Event Highlights – ThoughtWorks Women: Be Bold for Change

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That’s the view from the ThoughtWorks offices on the 26th floor of the City Tower in Piccadilly Gardens, as the sun sets across Manchester on Monday 27 March.

I was there to attend an incredibly engaging ThoughtWorks Women event celebrating International Women’s Day and the conclusion of Women’s History month. There were inspiring, lightning talks by inspiring speakers, women who had a story to tell on being bold for change, and diversity beyond gender.

This is just a short recap of the event.
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Learning Elixir at Manchester Lambda Lounge

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Here are the slides from my recent Learn Elixir talk at Manchester Lambda Lounge, the monthly meet up for fan of functional programming languages in Manchester. This is my second talk there, the first, back in October 2016, was a show-and-tell on Assenty, the real-time Q&A web service I’ve been building at assenty.com.

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