Peter Wilson

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  • Last night I watched a YouTube last night about the creation of Lemmings. A working copy is pretty much the only thing I want right now.

  • Peter’s very helpful guide for catching up on a busy Slack workspace:

    1. Open the Slack App
    2. Most messages sent overnight will not display at this point
    3. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
    4. Re-open Slack App
    5. Catch up on all messages
    6. As you navigate, Slack will display read channels as unread.
    7. Press escape on these channels
    8. As you navigate, Slack will return to the wrong point in the timeline
    9. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
    10. Re-open Slack App
    11. Wistfully remember when Slack was simpler and worked.

  • I’m just waiting for bug tracking tools to introduce AI features to detect AI slop and generate a reply that is also slop.

    At which point the original reporter will reply with further slop and recursion becomes a feature not a bug.

  • Steps for completing a BAS statement:

    1. Procrastinate for at least three hours
    2. Spend about 20 minutes doing BAS

  • bugs

    are the worst.

    Race condition

  • Forgot myself and started adding breakpoints attempting to debug a race condition. The race condition does not occur without a race. 🤦‍♂️

  • Remember that time the LNP thought they could win an election with this guy. Good times.

    Peter Dutton in a darkened room lit from below and looking genuinely evil

  • I feel so bad for Antony Green suffering an IT failure on his final federal election. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the ABC’s post election retro.

  • Election night is super weird because it’s a weird twilight zone in which some politicians are moderately honest for hours on end.

  • I had queue management opinions (yes multiple) at the voting shop. I kept them to myself because the staff Do Not Need That Kind of Shit.