In the best tradition of a K-Drama there are some weeks I want to time travel back to the Joseon era and, through a series of increasingly improbable events, be confused for a prince.
At first I’d be pleased with this turn of events but as I discover more about the role, I would start dressing as a commoner (this would involve changing my headwear) and tending the fields.
The other commoners would recognise me immediately and it would take me a few days to realise that the frequent jostling was not actually friendly.
This would be the entire plot of the twenty-five episode first season. In the second season…
I think there is a distinct risk we are a household of nerds. We are currently debating what is the correct setting for scrolling on a track pad.
For two people it’s a bit much but I am not very disappointed as it’s making some pretty bloody good sandwiches for lunch this week. Two days in and I am still not done.
Broadsheet is breaking Betteridge’s Law with their headline “can pre-made espresso save our cafes?”
I’m very much enjoying the build in public thing too.
In the continued public rebuild of my site, this-morning I finally remembered to add print CSS.
All these years later and I am still referencing the printed links section of Eric Meyer‘s Going To Print article on A List Apart in 2002. I can’t see that changing in the next twenty years.
I’ve spent literally days procrastinating doing my tax return. I told myself I’d really do it today.
It took a little over 90 minutes to prepare. A fraction of the amount of time I’ve spent not doing it.
Listening to Pulp Live!, recorded in the UK last year. At first glance, it seems pretty faithful track for track to the o2 playlist they did for the recording.
Why has it taken me until September 1, 2026 to set up iibuild as an alias for npm i; composer i; npm run build?
Last night we watched the first three episodes of New Zealand Spy on iView.
It’s a great laugh and pokes fun at Australian and NZ as a spy troop of varying levels of competence protect the country for external threats (mostly Australians). The. cast is amazing and features everyone you’ve ever heard of ever. Yes, EVERYONE.
Silly function names is one of the ways I like to make it clear something isn’t vibe coded. AI does not do fun.
This weekend’s project was to get comments back up and running on my site. I decided to customise the avatars so everyone just gets initials but I get a photo as a way to indicate author comments.
This did require writing a function named i_am_special().
I finally updated to the liquid ass versions of Apple operating systems as delaying much longer would be a security issue.
I’d have assumed reduced transparency would do more than this. The top half of the image has reduced transparency, apparently.
I think it was just standing oddly while it cleaned itself. Silly bird.
Trying to work out if one of the Maribyrnong River Swans is lame or just standing on one leg while it cleans itself. I’m going to go down to the river in an hour and see how it’s standing.
Like everyone in Footscray, I am on edge after six swans have died in the last year due to discarded fishing gear.
Just this-morning as I was on my walk I saw some peak arseholery as a guy let his dog (fortunately on a leash) approach them while barking at and trying to run over to them. The arsehole just let it go instead of trying to pull his dog back.
People. The worst.
Knowing that I should not stew about [thing] is making me stew about [thing].
I need to file an urgent bug report with YouTube Music. They do not have Dolly top-left, she’s not even above the fold.
Every now-and-then I find myself on the PHP operator precedence page and am reminded that these are different.
Back when I started work on the new theme for my site, I decided to use SASS and introduce a build step. I was quite unfashionable and chose Gulp rather than any of the currently popular tools.
This, of course, required adding a build step to the GitHub action I use to deploy my site and I was a little worried about it blowing up the build time.
It’s consistently adding all of five seconds to the ~1 minute build. I’m pleased I decided not to be one of the cool kids.
I am still thinking about how good the potatoes were. They use a third of a block of butter so it’s not surprising they were good and it probably wasn’t just the potatoes.
YOLO launch it is… meet the new peter wilson dot cc. there’s probably quite a few things that are broken. There are certainly things I want to do but am launching without (comment display and comment forms for one).
In the best tradition of a YOLO launch, I am now going to lunch 🤣
I’ve been working on a new slightly retro design for my site. It’s getting pretty close and I’m tempted to yolo launch as is.
As is except for the filler text I’ve got in a few places, at any rate.
Indulgent potatoes were very much a success. They’re definitely A Bit Too Much for every day if you want to stay remotely healthy but I am putting them in my dinner party book of tricks.
There is nothing quite as disconcerting as sitting in a dentist’s waiting room with the calming sound of teeth being drilled in the background.
I’m attempting something new and pretty indulgent looking for dinner tonight. Steak and Potato Dish so Good Chefs Want to Keep it a Secret, here I come.
My nephew texted me out of the blue last night to tell me he’d really got in to Hamilton and would like to see it live.
I was very proud but also disappointed it’s no longer playing in Australia because I would have booked tickets especially.
Somewhat out of character, I’ve decided that taking him on a trip to London is a little too much. It’s a close call though…
But there’s something else I need to test to make sure I am really 🙂
For some reason posting emoji from my site to mastodon was broken (which made me colon sad face colon) but I think I’ve fixed it (which makes me 🙂).
This article on ABC News goes in to the history of haemophiliacs contracting Hep C and HIV via blood products. Clotting products come from hundreds of donors so sufferers were disproportionately affected by infected blood donations.
While I’m glad to be able to donate blood at long last, I never really objected to not being able to because of the history of contaminated blood products.
The current questionnaire focuses on whether someone has multiple sexual partners, regardless of gender or sexual preference, which I think is a significant improvement. But I understand why it took a long time.
I’ve finally got my hands on a copy of the Artisanal Sudoku book by James Sinclair. I subscribe to his newsletter so buying the book was always going to happen.
I tried getting it from an Australian retailer but after a couple of orders got cancelled, gave up and bought it from Amazon. I guess that’s the way with niche books these days.
New Bobby Fingers. This is not a drill.
New profile pic as my last one reaches it’s tenth anniversary.
I finally got around to unplugging the smart TV and replacing the smarts with an Apple TV box. Y’all were right, it’s so much better.
Accepting some risk of confirmation bias, my perception is that the TV remote is becoming responsive much quicker with the TV in dumb mode.
Samsung have dialed back on the really offensive ads they were injecting in to the menu. However, I reckon that’s because introductory pricing has passed.
It appears that people with hidden phones will need to ensure they are shut down for a some time around the AusAlert test on Monday.
They need to be shut down from 1pm Monday until at least 2pm Tuesday:
Ms McBain said people with concealed phones, who may be at risk of domestic violence, can turn them off or put them on aeroplane mode at least an hour ahead of Monday’s test, and for at least 24 hours after.
It’s only ten weeks since Dave Hughes went the full Dave Hughes.
Who would have predicted that Dave Hughes Pissing would become a legitimate, safe-for-work, google search?!
If you’re running a version of WordPress affected by wp2shell (6.9 or 7.0) and are waiting until Monday to update, please don’t. Scripts are doing the rounds to exploit the issue.
If you have auto-updates enabled and are waiting until Monday to make sure they have successfully updated, please check now.
This is one of those issues in which you need to act NOW or you’re leaving it too late.
Look, there’s an ics file attached to the email. AI does not and should not be involved.
A lot of companies need to get over their AI everything obsession and remember that if statements exist.
There’s an Argentinian Bar I pass each morning as I walk to the supermarket. Unsurprisingly, it was going off past at around 7:30 this-morning.
I’ve just booked in my first ever blood donation. They announced the change to eligibility rules just after returned from India so I needed to wait. Travel delayed my first plasma donation so, at the very least, I am consistent.
The person at the blood bank told me I have a very good blood type. I’m putting it on my LinkedIn.
Stan subscribers, if you want a 30% discount for three months go to account settings > cancel account > 30% off for three months.
I’m trying to figure out how to prefer local sources with variable fonts. Do you need to do multiple @font-face rules, each pointing to the webfont file? Eg:
