Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • I am tempted to write an NPM package that just bricks a machine whenever someone types a tilde, caret or the word latest.

  • Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of the time period. No token/request hash needed.

    Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don’t worry, I would never…). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.

  • ANZ’s history of fines: November 2017, February 2018, October 2020, October 2022, March 2023, September 2023, December 2023 and September 2025.

    They’ve apologised and promised to improve their systems to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. I presume the system improvements are to better hide their actions from regulators.

  • People around my age used to have a lot more colour in their hair.

  • Me browsing the internet this week: oh, this is the bad place.

  • I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they’re by Thomas Snyder a name anyone who has watched Cracking the Cryptic should recognise.

    Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.

  • Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers.

    “How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we’re serious)?”

    I still occasionally think about how much I’d hate to work for those people.

  • I released a new SEO WordPress Plugin last week: Simple Search Submission for IndexNow.

    I thought the official plugin was over-engineered and had an unnecessary top level menu so wrote one that got out of the way and just got the job done.

    It’s also available on GitHub (issues and pull requests welcome) and via composer: composer require peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission

  • I guess we all should have seen believing medical science is woke (pejorative) as a natural extension of believing climate science is woke (pejorative).

    I’m sure some people saw it coming but it didn’t occur to me.

  • Bookmarking: A random list of RecipeTin Eats cooks I’ve done. I’ve even started looking up things I know how to cook for ways to improve.

    80s styled curried sausages is missing from the list because it wasn’t a success.

    In our house, we like chicken and we like lamb.