Hi there!
Tech. Culture. Noise. is the personal blog of Toby Nieboer, a talent acquisition professional, developer, technology enthusiast, coffee lover and dad, originally from Melbourne, Australia. The title and the URL come from my long-standing internet handle, which in turn comes from my initials and the greatest goaltender of all time.
On here you’ll find blog posts, links, and social-media style updates. Content is cross-posted to Mastodon and Bluesky via EchoFeed in accordance with the POSSE (Post on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) principle.
This site is a work in progress, built in Astro with the help of gemini-cli, and was inspired by kottke.org and Gina Trapani’s blog Note to Self.
My pronouns are he/him and I currently live in Melbourne with my wife, kids, and cat, and at the moment I lead recruitment for Ferocia. I became a developer in 2007, made the shift to technical recruitment in 2016, and have never looked back. I love helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and I take pride in building great teams.
You can find out more about what’s happening now, how to contact me, and the tools I use elsewhere on this site.
Speaking
- Co-MC of RubyConf AU 2024, April 2024.
- WordCamp Bangkok, February 2019
- WordCamp Cebu, March 2019
- WordCamp Kathmandu, April 2019
- Ruby on Rails Oceania, April 2019
Hire me
I’m not currently looking for work.
Find me
I’m on Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and GitHub.
Updates
2025
- December 8, 2025 Rebuilt and relaunched the site in Astro.
- January 9, 2025 Removed all links to Meta properties. Fuck Zuckerberg.
2024
- November 17, 2024 Added a
/usespage. - October 21, 2024 Started work with Ferocia, looking after all things recruitment.
- January 22, 2024 Joined SKUTOPIA as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist.
2023
- December 2, 2023 Returned to Melbourne.
2022
- September 29, 2022 Relocated to Boulder, CO 🎉
2021
- August 16, 2021 Lockdown 6 extended, now with bonus curfew 😭
- August 2, 2021 Joined Linktree as Talent Acquisition Manager.
- June 20, 2021 Back out of lockdown yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
- May 31, 2021 Back into lockdown aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh.
- March 3, 2021 Started work with ANZ.
- February 13, 2021 Moved the blog to Hugo on Netlify.
- January 2, 2021 Got myself a new Reid e-bike ⚡🚲 and have been riding it to and from work ever since
2020
- December 21, 2020 Began contract with Qsic as Head of People.
- December 3, 2020 Remigrated to Super.
- November 29, 2020 Migrated my blog from Hexo on Netlify to Notion and Fruition.
- October 5, 2020 Started contract recruiting work with A Cloud Guru ☁️
Last updated December 10, 2025.