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I am sorely tempted to disconnect my Samsung smart TV from the internet and use an Apple TV box instead. Is the latter full of ads too?

I missed this at the time but apparently the Melbourne White Elephant is to reopen. Once again people will be able to spend half-an-hour locked in a bubble taking in the extraordinary views of apartment blocks, the Costco roof and shipping containers at the docks.

This is a long shot but I am looking for the post content and post meta for a Facebook oEmbed in WordPress before they closed their oEmbed endpoint behind a API token.

This would be a FB post embeded in mid-2020 or earlier.

About to get on a bird to fly home. Between the conference and visiting friends it’s been a great but exhausting couple of weeks. I’m going to need a holiday to recover from my trip. That’s the sign of a good trip, I guess.

The London Underground’s Northern Line needs a cuddle to get its shit together. A line does not fork, let alone multiple times.

My niece has been house sitting for us this week and, apparently, was a little put out that she didn’t get instant love from the cat. Overnight reports are that the cat tried to sleep on her face last night.

It’s love.

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We ended up ordering the Sweet & Sour Pig Head for our main dish. Our waiter, Lockie, helped explain how to carve the pig so we could get to the best meat after starting it off with a Liverpool kiss.

Two of the people had allergies at the table and they waiter that sat us, Jordan, spent a good deal of time going through the menu with each of them to make sure we all had a great experience.

When I got into cooking YouTube, one of the channels I started watching regularly was the Fellow Restaurant’s.

One of the first things we did for our London trip was book a meal there. Jack Croft happened to be in on Monday so we got a snap toward the end of our meal. He was lovely and spent a good few minutes with us.

He and I discussed cooking eggs, of all things.

In London people pay for seats in parks as a tribute to a loved one. This is Bob. Someone really loved Bob. Yes, Bob is a cat. Bob must have been a very good kitty. 

A bill? From Greater Western Water?! Not with their new billing system, it must be a scam.

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Based on a few keywords, the English speaking staff member is now explaining to their colleague why the middle aged guy is hanging around.

I didn’t get to spend as much time at the WordCamp Europe after party as I’d have liked because I needed to catch a 6:45am train to Wawsaw.

It’s my own fault for not booking a train ticket in time. I even asked someone for advice and then forgot to take it. Why are men, etc, etc?!

I’m now overstaying my welcome at a random cafe to avoid getting to the airport hours and hours in advance. (I asked and the cafe staff are actually quite welcoming but I feel like I’m taking the piss.)

Krakow has put on a glorious fog for this morning. It was so lovely to walk along the river.

Why do people?! Men who insist on standing up to pee while on an airplane edition.

I’m always surprised how few people realise most of the jokes in the Book of Mormon (musical, not the religious text) punch down. As a huge musical theatre queen, I hated it.

New suitcase means new stickers to easily identify suitcase when it’s on the baggage carousel.

I’m not really in to stickers so this is the only place I use them. Because I work in tech, I am spoilt for choice.

Dear brands, just because I am attending the same conference as your staff does not mean I have expressed an interest in your goods and/or services. I will mark your unsolicited email as spam.

I’m confused. I saw someone cleaning an escalator at Footscray station today but neither the Werribee or Sunbury lines were running replacement buses. You’ve changed, PTV, you’ve changed.

Apparently the mother Maribyrnong River swan was put down by the Zoo yesterday after getting badly injured by some discarded fishing gear.

People are the absolute worst.

Two of the three cygnets have disappeared in recent weeks, I’d assumed it was because they’d matured and moved on as adults. Now I’m trying to find out for sure.

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With regard to weed, the NYPD have taken turning a blind eye to truly remarkable levels.

Peacefully walking while black on the other hand…

Olivia Rodrigo is incorrect. Weed, particularly really fucking strong weed, smells like the greatest city in the world (New York).

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Also… I’m not sure you have the moral high-ground complaining about a copyright strike for a video you’ve entirely ripped off from another channel.

YouTube does an awful job when it comes to fair use, sure, but the complaints I’m seeing aren’t about a fair use clip.

So I actually think Paramount deciding not to issue copyright take down notices for bootleg copies Colbert’s Only In Monroe appearance is a dumb decision.

The official video is a collaboration between Colbert (the Individual), the Late Show and Monroe Community Media. I reckon the latter could do with as many people seeing their channel as possible.

Ugh, Google Slides is leaving a widow because it can’t handle non-breaking spaces
properly

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I’m trying to work out if any AI bots have been crawling my site. I find it remarkable that thirty years of responsible crawling has been discarded by AI companies.

As Dries Buytaert found, not even following their recommendations help, it doubles the number of pages they crawl.

Stephen Colbert is a massive nerd (complimentary).

Victoria, the infrastructure state.

Queue here for train replacement busses. Please allow extra time for travel as all major roads to the western suburbs are closed

Today marks ten years since I became a WordPress Core committer. It’s been a ride and I’ve certainly grown a lot in that time; I’d have never been able to work on a feature as large as Real Time Collaboration back in the day.

I remember getting the offer very clearly because Slack protocols were still developing and I woke to a message from a Lead Developer, Helen Hou-Sandí, that she wanted to “talk about something” when it was timezone appropriate.

I tentatively replied thinking I must have screwed up and screwed up badly. No, I was about to take the first step that would entirely change my career over the next few years.

It’s been a ride. And sometimes still is.

Heh, I just created an issue to prep a 2.8.0 release. The issue number is 280.

I am easily amused.

A couple of weeks ago, I did a big ol’ clean up of VMs I hadn’t booted for a while on the basis that they could be pretty easily reprovisioned at any time.

This week I’ve wanted to reup two of them. They pull from the Ubuntu PPA. Ask me how that’s going.

Don’t actually ask.

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1:32pm AEST on a Saturday is the perfect time for marketing. Am I right or am I right?! Something something personal brand something.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at WordCamp Europe about recent performance improvements to post querying in WordPress.

With a persistent object cache on many page loads WordPress no longer makes any database queries. The many contributors who worked on this have done great work and I am thrilled to be able to celebrate their work.

I’ve been using computers since my parents gave me a second hand Apple IIe as a combined birthday/Christmas present some time in the 80s.

One day I hope to be good enough at technology that I can convince Netflix to show me the credits of a movie I have chosen to watch from start to finish.

There’s an urgent call for testing by hosting providers for the WordPress Real-Time Collaboration feature coming in WordPress 7.0.

There are a few data structures being considered and the testing will help determine the best approach across a range of environments.

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I do wish said humans were better at keeping said canines on a leash. Dogs have killed previous Maribyrnong River Swan families in the past.

I’d love to know when the Footscray Arts Centre lawn will be re-opened. The only work they’ve done for months is to mow the lawn three times.

Surely by now it can cope with human, canine and cygnus foot traffic.

Uncommenting the “Today is not a day for social media” section of my hosts file. That’s my hot take.

The thing the AFL needs to realise is that when their (now former) appeals board chair says homophobic slurs are common it’s VERY, VERY BELIEVABLE.

What with no openly gay players and all.

…and here I was thinking that Keynote was frustrating.

I need to use Google Slides and am now singing the everything is shit song.

The lyrics are “everything is shit, ooh, everything is shit ” (repeat infinity)

This is great, the eligibility rules have been changed to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Australia.

When I donated plasma earlier this year, I found out I’m a universal blood donor. I’ve been told by friend to expect regular phone calls. Ironically, I can’t donate at the moment because I’ve traveled overseas too recently.

Are we having roast potatoes with a side of chicken for dinner?

No, that would be ridiculous.

We’re having thrice cooked, duck fat roast potatoes with a side of chicken for dinner. 

I think people reacting badly to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle doing paid and expensive private gigs on their tour are either very naive or very disingenuous.

The amount of money they have to spend on security is astronomical, so of course they’re going cash in when they can. 

Tempted to start posting this every day.

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Are oil refinery fires really bad though? The woke left mainstream media should be arksing this question.

International flights that land early in the morning suck. I’m out for a walk so I have no choice but to stay awake for a little longer before a short afternoon nap.

Skipping a conference you’ve traveled some distance to attend in order to binge watch several series of Taskmaster on their YouTube channel. Discuss.

International travel is high fiving a fellow traveler because you’ve made it to 9pm (9:17, to be precise) before going to bed.

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I do feel sorry for the person sitting next to the guy wearing two day old airplane clothes. I want to move away from me!

Time to recommence travel to WC Asia. I missed a connection after someone fell sick in Sydney and we needed to return to the gate. It can’t be helped and Singapore Airlines put me up in a very nice hotel so I don’t have to deal with any travel insurance claims.

Uber driver for the trip to the airport this morning had not adjusted their car’s clock. Cue mild panic.