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Over the next nine days there needs to be fewer than 15 new COVID-19 cases to meet the target for further easing of the Melbourne lockdown. I think we’ll have well above that so am getting used to the idea it won’t happen.

Never thought I’d be taking photos of railway station signs to keep a log of when I’d travelled.

I don’t get the WordPress vs Jamstack debate. They can be friends and used together, and static site generation doesn’t have to mean a full build every time content is published.

Responsive web design is great and all but it is really better than the GO NORTH thread? This is the question that came to mind watching @beep on #sydcss last night, oc.

I’ve been in a meeting discussing character codes. What has more curly quotes, UTF-8 or the presidential debate?

A friend put me on to Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series (because 2020 demands absurdism) and I have been chucking all day at
> they tuck you up, your mum and dad

I just googled media query level 4 browser support and my computer hard crashed. It was a sign. It was accurate.

Something I’ve noticed over the last few months is that there is heaps less in the way of explosions and whispering by candlelight during a pandemic than movies would have you believe.

When it comes time for a career change to cyber criminal, I’m going to use how to stay safe online newsletters choc full of links for my phishing templates.

Every other year that ever was: Mouth breathers are the worst.
2020: Nose breathers are the worst.

We didn’t forgot dessert. That would be silly.

Finish at home restaurant meal from Estelle for dinner tonight.

continue is a really bad way of saying stop executing this iteration of the loop.

One of my most common comments on PRs at work is “unit tests would be dandy”. It’s so common @chrisaprea gave it an emoji shorthand ? I’m kinda a fan.

Anyway, I just found a twelve-year-old bug writing unit tests.

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I tend to avoid aliases so I don’t forget commands when I am on a server. The three I do use are: cmsstart, cdcms and cmsstop. That’s all _I_ need, what are yours?

The anti-lockdown argument this place is open and they had 100 or 500 or 1000 or 1500 deaths yesterday is just weird. I’m sorry not enough Australians are dying for you.

I see Tones is on brand today. He is right, apart from rates of infection reducing about one incubation period after lockdowns begin in cities the world over, there is no proof these so called experts know what they are doing. I’d much rather listen to Tones’ reckons.

I’m loving the focus on performance and a11y that @ZachLeat is putting in to 11ty. Using Lighthouse scores and Axe violations to rank sites and starters is perfect.

The recipe called for children to have a bath. I don’t argue with Huey.

In recent of weeks, I have learnt to recognise both the 3011 postcode and the City of Maribyrnong by shape. I’m going to be a postie when I grow up.

Days since March 15: 165.
Current status: ? Very bored of working from home.

Fantasy casting Hamilton and trying to decide whether to put Paul Capsis in the role of Hamilton or Burr.

Work’s notifications of the gmail outage were sent by email. Don’t worry, incident notifications get piped to Slack too. Oh.

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Last week work passed 130 C-19 live articles & some of the journos wrote about the work.

What they don’t mention is, even with recent tech improvements, it’s hard work for the main blogger (WordPress posts within WordPress posts). Kudos all

Working on various things, I have spent much of this weekend looking at a single function. I am that function, I live that function, I think that function.

? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three; it’s the twenty-four timezone commandments.

Hey professional web developers who actually make a living out of this: I was reading the HTML spec (I wasn’t) and there’s this thing called an anchor tag that is super accessible and browsers interpret to give users control on how and where links open. You should try it.

Sooo many questions about the Hamilton pre-sale… Will it actually open on March 17, will I be able to travel to Sydney if it does and, will I feel safe travelling to Sydney if I can?

Mad programming skill I’d love to pick up: remembering it’s trigger_error() and not trigger_log() before triggering a fatal.

As an aside, trigger_error() triggers a notice, you need to specify if you want trigger_error() to trigger an error.

We had finish at home Cumulus for dinner tonight. Would recommend as a way to get out of the house during iso.

I’ve noticed fewer press conference clashes recently. Yes, I’ll take credit and your thanks.

 

I have opinions about Facebook. I certainly have opinions about them deprecating their oembed endpoints. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed-legacy

Dan Andrews did this too late/too early.
Dan Andrews should do this/do that.

Maybe, just maybe, political commentators should be kept on a leash and their reckons wrapped in a green plastic bag and thrown in the nearest bin.

Doing some testing to try an emulate how a journalist might use works CMS. One of the things I am testing is quoting Dan Andrews press conference. TVeeder is pretty amazing.

Press conferences could really do with some house and walk-on music. And a stage manager’s discipline for starting on time.

That every news organisation has a reliable source leaking Victoria’s C-19 numbers every day, I can’t help but think the ship of state is leaking from the top again.

It turns out my office is within 5km of home. Not that I have any plans to go near it, ugh train trips, but it’s amusing me on a rough day for a lot of Victorians.

Combining Hamilton and the Muppets is a great idea and remains hilarious right up until the point you wake with an ear worm of a chicken rapping.

The latest release notes for @Docker Desktop for Mac include a privilege escalation vulnerability under the section bug fixes and minor changes, their version of bug fixes and improvements. I’d highlight that a little more.

Politicians, a few of the general public are interested in watching pressers these days. Something about a pandemic. Here are some phone numbers for coordinating to avoid clashes.

@ScottMorrisonMP 02 6271 5111
@DanielAndrewsMP 03 9651 5000
@GladysB 02 9228 5555

Wine ✅
#HamilFilm
Again ✅

My Bank: We encourage customers to wear a mask when entering our branches.

2020 is fucking weird. I know this isn’t the weirdest thing about the year, yet, it’s still very, very fucking weird.

Our lounge looks out on to a walking path and I noticed a steady increase in the number of masks being worn after Dan Andrews announced they’d be mandatory from mid-week. I’m not seeing any locals complain online either, the reaction’s “this is what we do now”.

There is a cafe I go to and somehow they think my name is Chris. I’ve never given them a name, much less Chris, but I haven’t got the heart to correct them.

jQuery will be updated in WordPress 5.5, starting with removing jQuery-migrate. Theme and plugin developers, it’s super important you test your code. There’s a plugin for that.

It’s a little foggy. It’s even colder than it looks.

There’s a content marketing podcast I listen to and sometimes the CTA is to visit their hiring board. Sometimes their content is about feeling bad because they’re about to ruin some employees next four weekends. I’m no marketing genius but…

Workplace pride and all, but @CraigDButt and the data team at the Age & SMH have been doing some excellent work with C-19 stats recently. This article in particular is great to see what’s going on in Vic.

Spoiler: it’s ugly.

1. Times Square before 10pm
2. Coffee shops not run by Australians
3. Showtime @ The Majestic Theatre

https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/1280304151176663040

As of Saturday, Footscray (3011) has three neighbouring postcodes in stage three lockdown. Going for a walk yesterday, I could see the heightened tension had returned. I think 3011 will be locked back down by Friday.

Still, we’re lucky compared to the people in the towers.