Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • While polishing my Imposter Syndrome deck for @theWebMeetup Tuesday, I’m making Hamilton gifs. They’re related.

  • No, YOU realised you were mournfully signing “who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” aloud as you walked down the street.

  • Where are the best Pepsi reaction videos?

  • I’m heading to Perth next month to speak at Yow! West. Hope to see some of you there.

  • It’s amazing how hours complaining affirmative action makes it _harder_ for white guys to get tech talks can turn you off someone.

  • Surprise wine

  • I’ll be chatting about Imposter Syndrome at the Web Meetup in two weeks. Sign up and I’ll see you on the 11th.

     

  • After AHCA failed & various injunctions I’m applying to @nejsconf & hoping potus is further undermined.

  • Sitting on the couch with the doors open & Mojo JuJu playing a set on the front lawn.

    Footscray is pretty cool.

    • In the 70s gay people could lose their livelihood if someone invaded their privacy and outed them.
    • The hanky code became a subversive part of gay (& kink) culture which allowed people to reveal themselves to people in the know without risking their livelihood. Different colours and pockets indicated preference.
    • These days it’s universally agreed that being straight or gay should not rightly affect someone’s livelihood.
    • Within the Drupal community, Larry Garfield has had to write about his preference for sub-dom relationships after others started outing him.
    • Even after he was repeatedly found not to have breached the community’s code of conduct he was forced out of the offical roles he had in the community.
    • I don’t think it’s anyone’s business what colour handkerchief people have, where they keep them but it seems Dries Buytaert and the Drupal leadership do.
    • Dries proudly claims these exclusionary practices are their values. By implication, invading people’s privacy and outing them do not fall outside these values.
    • Reading Larry’s and Dries’ posts, I can’t help but think there but for an accident of timing go I.