Carly Lyddiard

Oh hello, 🎺☕️!

I'm a freelance .NET web dev from Melbourne, Australia. I'm also a sometimes-digital-nomad and sometimes-CTO-for-hire. I mostly work with Kentico CMS by accident, but might be about to begin a journey into Industrial IoT. Exciting! Scary!

Stuff I like: web tech, linguistics, slow travel, outdoors/hiking, making music (guitar, fiddle), civic tech, open data, urban planning, sociology, physical crafts (blacksmithing, carpentry), games, reading, podcasts, pun wars.

#introduction

Apr 10, 2017 at 10:05pmWeb
Show threadNolan LawsonApr 10, 2017
@carly_io Welcome! :) I actually did my undergrad in linguistics, surprising how many folks there are in tech who are interested in linguistics :D
Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 10, 2017

@nolan Oh nice! My undergrad was computer science. I went back to study postgrad ling, and still read heavily.

I've sometimes wondered if an interest in linguistics is part of an underlying interest in puzzles, patterns and communication... which maybe wouldn't be so surprising in the tech world (?).

Show threadNolan LawsonApr 10, 2017

@carly_io When I learned how Chomsky's work on CFGs influenced the design of parsers/lexers it was kind of mind-blowing to me. A few years ago I wrote a custom parser/lexer using JISON and found my linguistics BA surprisingly helpful.

OTOH I did computational linguistics in grad school, and honestly linguistics itself does not figure a whole lot in there IMO. It's mostly stats. There's an old joke from someone at Brown I think about how every time they fired a linguist the accuracy improved. 😜

Show threadOwlbertApr 10, 2017
@carly_io Hello and welcome! Always nice to meet another someone who's into linguistics!
Show threadMichael_SpencerApr 10, 2017
@carly_io Waves to Melbourne from Montreal. What sort of sociological interests do you have?
Show threadTessaApr 10, 2017
@carly_io I'm helping organize an IoT related event in SF! Nice to meet you! Will I see you at devnetcreate.io ?
Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 10, 2017
@tessamero Hello, nice to meet you :-) Alas, being currenty based in Melbourne, cross-pacific travel is a bit of a killer. I don't do that trip too often. I do wish we had more tech events a little closer to home.
Show threadJoe :maple_leaf: :coffee:Apr 10, 2017
@carly_io Welcome! I also have a .Net background. Have you done any work with Core yet?
Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 11, 2017

@joew I've played around with it a little, and a little while ago, but not much more so far. My CMS work dominates most of my coding time, and unfortunately it doesn't run in Core.

I hear it's progressed quite a lot from when I looked mid last year. I'm really looking forward to it becoming a bit more mature.

Have you done much with Core?

Show threadJoe :maple_leaf: :coffee:Apr 11, 2017

@carly_io No, not yet. I attempted to get it going for a new project last week, but ran into a multitude of errors with VS2015. I didn't have the luxury of time to figure it all out so just stuck with what I knew.

I'm hoping to someday get the time to port it over to Core.

Show threadDen McHenryApr 11, 2017
@carly_io I also work on a .NET CMS. In my case it's Umbraco. And I did my degree in Greek and Latin languages, with a big interest in historical and comparative linguistics.
Show threadDragonLuvr89🎅Apr 11, 2017
@carly_io Welcome! Do you ever combine the interests? Like doing a pun war about blacksmithing? Or being a fiddling traveler?
Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 11, 2017

@dragonluvr89 Ha! Well I have travelled with fiddle and guitar, and I have blacksmithed during my travels.

I don't think I've been in a pun war about blackmithing yet. I'll hammer out a plan. Anvil you join me?
Just don't steel any of my jokes.

Show threadDragonLuvr89🎅Apr 11, 2017
@carly_io HOLY hell you're a genius. You need a pun award. Some kind of medal, Maybe you can make the medal with your blacksmithing powers and then hand it to me and then I'll give it to you as if I made it.
Show threadFrankie SaxxApr 11, 2017

@carly_io Hello! All kinds of interesting things in your 'stuff' list. :)

What #podcasts do you like?

Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 11, 2017

@frankiesaxx Oh hello there :-) At the moment I'm enjoying RadioLab, The Allusionist, 99% Invisible, Memory Palace, Invisibilia, Lexicon Valley, and an occasional Planet Money.

How about you? What are your favourite #podcasts?

Show threadFrankie SaxxApr 11, 2017

@carly_io Favorite #podcasts

Philosophy Bites (and the spin offs) and Hardcore History.

Listened to S-town recently and loved it. I think that's by one of the RadioLab guys?

Fiction, I love Tanis & The Black Tapes & Alice Isn't Dead.

I've hearx good things about Memory Palace and Invisibilia.

Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 11, 2017

@frankiesaxx Nice list. I've added a few of those to my 'To Try' list, thanks.

Memory Palace is great for short journeys into a tiny part of the past that's underappreciated or almost forgotten. Some episodes are only 10 minutes. Fascinating little stories that are easy to find time for, I love them.