Miscellaneous
Tim is an open source developer from New Zealand. He is a member of the Juju project's core team at Canonical and enjoys sharing how to make developers' lives simpler. His professional passion is data science, especially natural language processing. His recent experience has involved leading big data software projects, running training and outreach programs, and promoting open data. He's founded multiple startups and has also had several years in the public sector. Show Notes Canonical (https://canonical.com/) Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/) Juju (https://jaas.ai/) Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/) Rust in Action (https://www.manning.com/books/rust-in-action) Data Analysis with Open Source Tools (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0596802358/parpaspod-20) Programming Collective Intelligence (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0596529325/parpaspod-20) Conway's Game of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life) Perlin Noise (https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/96687595307) Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (https://www.hotosm.org/) OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/) TED Talk on streets vs blocks (https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different) what3words (https://what3words.com/) iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/) Cult of the Party Parrot (https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/) Adopt a Kākāpō parrot (https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kakapo-recovery/get-involved/adopt-a-kakapo/) New Zealand fairy tern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_fairy_tern) Godwit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwit) Recommendations Becoming a father Being made redundant Participating in open source (https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/116520925447/how-to-contribute-to-open-source) Tim McNamara Twitter (https://twitter.com/timClicks) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tim.mcnamara.nz/) Personal Page (https://tim.mcnamara.nz/) Parallel Passion Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parpaspod) Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/parpaspod) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/parpaspod) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/parpaspod) Credits Michael Shannon (https://unsplash.com/@mgshannon) for the header photo Tina Tavčar (https://twitter.com/tinatavcar) for Parallel Passion logo Jan Jenko (https://twitter.com/JanJenko) for intro/outro music