We’ve been watching The League of Gentlemen recently but last night we didn’t feel like watching a horremdy (like a dramedy but for horror). We needed nice, simple and a lot of heart.
Scrubs was perfect: we watched the first three episodes of season one and it was so nice. We’ve got DVDs of the first three series so get the original music too.
I think Bill Lawrence has got a bright future.
Do youngs still go through a The Doors phase or is it now a Nirvana phase?
To misquote Douglas Adams:
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake connecting computers to the Internet in the first place. And some said that even the computers had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have invented the valve in the first place.
SMS from “Coinbase” (yes, scare quotes) “Your login code is 123456. Wasn’t you? Reach us at 1800 SCAM.” I’ve never seen that approach before.
With all these scams, the money laundering and the well known price manipulation you’d almost think that operating in the crypto market was somehow a dodgy thing for dodgy people.
It’s started: Bluesky have asked me to verify my age through Kids Web Services. They have a very smart looking web site.
Their privacy policy seems fine, I guess but includes that well worn line “we may modify this Privacy Policy at any time.” I understand that line is basically the privacy policy version of E&OE but what’s not clear is how they want me to verify my age.
The David Byrne Tiny Desk is simply great. Do yourself a favour, etc
More stories about the UK need to be illustrated with this image.
A question about CSS sub-grid, is it possible to do without div.can-i-do-without-this in this example?
Hashtag peter learns css again after somehow becoming a backend developer over the course of the last ten years
Breaking news, 2025 edition: You can do some pretty neat things with CSS variables and SVG use.
Next to figure out subgrids.
Wow, have I forgotten a lot of CSS over the last ten years.
I’m trying to remember to use logical properties, even though my site is only ever going to appear in English.
It seems odd that a shorthand equivalent of margin, padding, etc doesn’t exist for setting all four directions logically. The originals only really work for one or two values logically.
I know I am an old silly but were I running a bank and transitioning people to a new system, I’d:
I guess this is why I am not a product manager at a bank.
The EBU allowing Israel to compete in next year’s Eurovision is so weak. I hope SBS joins the broadcasters pulling out in protest of the genocide.
This is brutal, Nick Cave’s bad cover version of Disco 2000 has more listens than the single Bad Cover Version on the EP (although the remix of the single has heaps more than both).
Curious about your (or another’s) contribution history for WordPress? My contribution history tool now includes WordPress 6.9 in the results.
I think the quickest fix I saw pushed through was boring a hole in the paywall for Covid related articles, from memory that took less that 24 hours after the first case was discovered in Australia.
It had nothing to do with my team but I think at first it was a bit of a kludge: if category == covid then leak.
When I was at Farifax, I once whinged so much about ending up on smh.com.au via links on theage.com.au that we got a fix through the system in about a week just so I’d shut up about it.
People were actually very good about it. Once I pointed out that “I’ve subscribed to the Age, why would I try to log in to the SMH after hitting the paywall?” everyone was sold fairly quickly. It probably helped that it was peak 2020 at the time. News was pretty important to Victorians at the time.
The ABC News website insists on showing me the Today in NSW section even though I’ve got all the things set to Melbourne. The sidebar shows local news correctly but not the main feed.
I hit the CDN endpoint ae9.equinix-mel.netarch.akamai.com so there are multiple ways for the national broadcaster to detect I am, maybe, possibly, not in NSW.
They can be such a Sydney media outlet sometimes, across the board.
George Michael came up in my feed last night so I started reading his Wikipedia page as a result. Apparently Casey Kasem refused to say “I want your sex” on American Top 40. Because America, I guess.
I am, of course, listening to various albums today.
Do professional chefs use “things have started exploding” as a measure when reheating food in the microwave too?
The trains were crowded enough that I decided to catch the traditional Sunbury line home. I’ve never been on a roomier Sunbury train.
Apparently I am enough of a train nerd to be curious about the metro tunnel. Please listen for announcements does not seem great though.
I had such a great time speaking at Web Directions Enqueue, thanks for having me and I’m looking forward to the next one.
I’m also very, very pleased that people guessing which milestone usually guess ten years too low (I’m ignoring the fact that a sensible person always guesses ages low for anyone they think is over twenty-one).
Having a milestone birthday this week has got me thinking about the last ten years.
Buying a home has got to be a highlight, that it was the place we’d been renting for ten years beforehand is gravy. We knew its sins going in but also that we loved living here in good ol’ 3011.
A lot of professional achievements. From memory, I had the first functional commit on the CMS re-platforming for Fairfax but if not, it was one of the first five or six. I sometimes worry that that will be the biggest project I ever work on but I thought I’d worked on big projects ten years ago so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These days I make regular decisions that effect a “try not to think about it” number of websites. But I also get to help other developers contribute code to these same sites. Often is the people who have been showing up for years, but sometimes it’s a new contributor who then becomes a regular contributor and, finally, an old hand.
Me: Oh good, I slept through another major internet outage.
…arriving at my desk…
Internet: fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Over a dozen birds are hanging around on the lawn out the front of our house and I can’t help but be a little creeped out.
Elsewhere in the talk I use the phrase up cache creek without a paddle which I am reasonably proud of.
That thing when you are writing a talk and find yourself asking “what’s the funniest transition to use for this joke?”
AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.
Last time they played Melbourne, they were at Docklands Stadium. As a concert stadium it has a nasty habit of letting all the sound go straight up out of the venue.
We were living in North Melbourne at the time and the wind was just right for sending a perfect mix in to our living room.
We threw open all the doors and just listened to the concert for about an hour or two. At the end of the show there was a huge guitar solo: we looked at each other and said “that crowd is going fucking wild right now, right?” “Yep”.
I miss that flat in North Melbourne for many reasons, acca dacca being one of them.
I can almost hear a few people saying “too soon”.
I’m a little sad that the Peekaboo Bug page no longer resolves (it redirects to the site’s home page). The content isn’t lost, it’s just another reason to be thankful to the Web Archive.
Youngs, don’t worry about it… but ask an old why you’d prefix a CSS property with an underscore or an asterisk if you want to be entertained some time.
Alternative headline: Liberal cabinet agrees to lose more seats to Teal independents.
As a democracy nerd, I’m enjoying Annabel Crabb’s Civic Duty on iView.
The first episode was basically a love letter to the independence of the AEC, describing them as beige as a term of endearment. It made me want to gift one to America. No division of a population will be perfect but it’s really nice not have gerrymandering as just a thing we live with.
Not since the days of Joh, anyway.
They didn’t even have the guts to go with “LIVE: GG sacks PM, announces double dissolution election”.
The ABC is doing a live blog of events that occurred 50 years ago. “This live blog could have been an article.”
Turns out that organising a really self-indulgent milestone birthday party is a lot of fun. At the start of the year I wasn’t going to do anything…
Now, it’s an eight to ten hour me fest with the optional afternoon package.
Streak freezes are bullshit. You didn’t do the thing, you broke your streak.
LinkedIn is claiming I have a 62-day win streak for their six-by-six Sudoku but it’s only about 30 something.
The hobbling scene in Misery remains a bit fucking too much.
Things I say in detailed technical conversations that I didn’t have on my bingo card: “👨 🏻🐰👨 🏻 appears differently to 👨🏻🐰👨🏻 which would trigger a false support detection even though none of the dudes are wearing bunny ears”.
Anyway… detecting emoji support is complex.
I remember being in tears of laughter when the Daily Show went all Simpsons Rake Theory with the phrase “Dick Cheney shot a 78-year-old man in the face”.
In their corporate wisdom Paramount have deleted it from the internet.
I like getting bots to do things, even when there will be no long term time savings. As I find ways to improve a process, I can just do it once and actually forget about it.
I must not import Toby’s database over mine while migrating his site to the new server, I said to myself.
So anyway, you’ll never guess what happened.
On the other hand, I know my backup works.
For the first time in ages I am building a site. I want to use sass to keep ’em separated. After years of build tooling improvements I decided to use Gulp because Sass + CleanCss results in a very clear 30 line file. thing.pipe() is clear and it just makes sense.
I’ve added the plugin check action to my WordPress plugin template repo now that security reports are created for each plugin update.
I’ve used the most basic configuration and will customise it based on each plugin’s needs.
Companies: we believe personal responsibility is the most effective way of solving the climate crisis.
Also companies: low waste refills are less profitable so we have decided not to sell them.
I quite enjoyed this video from Paul ET on the history of the movie trailer.
Furthermore, I want to personally invoice Sam Altman $10,000 every time I see an AI generated security report closed as not applicable. $20,000 if the reporter subsequently comes back and asks for it to be closed informative to avoid a loss of H1 reputation.
Apparently it’s because VoiceOver is a little bit crap. The browser and I were innocent bystanders. Sometimes, just sometimes, technology makes me want to kick a puppy while stealing candy from a baby
Today gave me this spring’s first sighting of 20ish ducks paddling up the Maribyrnong River in formation. It’s very cute.
I’m trying to do a thing with role=alert and can’t figure out whether to yell at myself, Firefox or VoiceOver. I suspect it’s a little of the first and the last. The browser is an innocent bystander.