Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • It’s obvious 5r gives provides tools for and encourages Twitter spam (my fav is auto-replies offering to assist someone at AIOSEO or Yoast with search) but I can’t decide whether to block on follow or only if they DM or mention spam.

  • In today’s CSS bad take I learnt that Ethan, Nicole, Jen and Rachel are all junior developers despite changing the face of modern front-end web development. Good to know.

  • I’m trying to do a logic check on why the NSW gov is loosening restrictions for three days over Christmas (not even Boris has done that). The only thing I can come up with is that they are trying to limit rule breaking by relaxing them… but it still doesn’t seem logical.

  • From an open-source maintainer point of view, PHP 8.0 is, not to put too fine a point to it, a nightmare.
    – @jrf_nl

    Juliette Reinders Folmer has written an excellent post on the sudden lack of forgiveness in the newest version of PHP.

  • This NSW outbreak has my already plentiful anxiety sky rocketing again. A new feature is a salting of guilt because all my friends overseas have more to be afraid of than Australians.

  • Of the contributors to WordPress 5.6, 39% did so for the first time. Their contribution is now running on 6.7 million sites ? @AudrasJb has released his summery of contribution stats for WP 5.6.

    WordPress 5.6 Core Stats: contributions by country & company

  • “Peter force-pushed the branch from 123abcd to abc1234 one minute ago”

    Ugh, GitHub, I was trying to hide that console.log(). Thankyouverymuch.

  • I wonder if Dropbox have ever considered selling a service that does cloud storage only. I think it would be really popular.

  • Let’s all agree that the 2020 year in review articles, tv shows and blog posts can go unpublished.

  • Two hours! This is not a drill.

  • Very little of this seems sensible but especially not the 1,600 person stage, even if it ultimately only holds a tenth of that. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/what-will-bidens-inauguration-look-like-in-covid-19-pandemic/12943014

  • Bravo to whoever in the ABC newsroom came up with the headline “Donald Trump tells supporters he has ‘never lost an election’, in his first rally since losing the US election”. Savage.

  • Niche troll

    Docs, Tests: Correctly capitalize JavaScript.

    Correct Javascript to JavaScript within WordPress core ;)

    See #51800, #51802.

  • I really, really, really like Chassis. I needed to switch my wordpress-develop box to a different PHP version and to use multisite. It’s like the famous five minute install all over again.

  • In the last 24 hours, extra data has been added to the wp_after_insert_post action added to WordPress 5.6: it will now include the previous state of the post. Updated dev note:

    New action wp_after_insert_post in WordPress 5.6.

  • Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is 2021.

    Street art of a kangaroo in a Santa hat looking out a door at a sign that says 2021

  • A pinch and a punch for the 275th of March.

  • Teenage boy writes some letters

  • Let me use spaces in my credit card and phone numbers, you bastards. Let me paste, you bastards. Let me open links my way, you bastards.

  • Query Monitor: Keeping developers’ swear jars empty(ish) since 2013.

  • I think about Brett Sutton’s first tweet occasionally. Environmental health ✅; food safety: does having to close restaurants count??; communicable disease ✅✅✅. But probably not what he had in mind.

  • I am beginning to consider that maybe it was unwise to take my morning walk in this.

    weather satellite showing a large patch of rain centred on a location marker.

  • “Damn, I’ve busted my local server.”
    “Oh, I forgot to boot it”

    Every. Single. Day.

  • Never read your hero’s code.
    Never read your code.
    Never read code.
    Never code.

  • Remember when you’d see a name trending on Twitter and ask yourself whether they’d died rather than what they said this time? It cost us some childhood heros on the way but I miss those days.

  • Remember, the inauguration isn’t until January. Until then the correct title is President Loser.

  • Don, you’re fired.

  • The independence of the @AusElectoralCom is pretty cool, hey. I am <highly likely> to recommend this product or service to my friends.

  • Doom-scrolling/election mode CSS enabled with Firefox user styles: https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/d559771f8c257879284a09d403a221a0

  • The Australian government has generic do not travel advice for every country in the world at the moment (even NZ). Yesterday (or certainly no earlier than October 7 according to the web archive) the USA’s alert was updated to include the election and inauguration dates. Pretty wild for a democracy.

  • I feel incredibly lucky to have friends dotted around the world. I can’t wait to be less anxious about their health and safety.

  • ? PHP 8 has a number of breaking changes and other considerations for updating your code to support it, the Yoast developer blog has this comprehensive guide to help do so. You’ll need to set aside a bit of time to read it.

    https://developer.yoast.com/blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/

  • The sense of relief in Melbourne this-morning is palpable. On my morning walk I could see cafe staff were excited to have tables out again and strangers chatting about almost been back to normal. It’s lovely. ?

  • The Kubrick inspired default theme for WordPress still runs in WP 5.5 on PHP 7.4! It throws a few deprecation warnings, both for WP and PHP, but you could still run it in production. Not bad for a 15ish year-old theme that hasn’t been the default for 10 years.

  • Someone has gratified this in various locations around Footscray. It’s puerile but it makes me laugh.

  • I suspect an early Daily Dan today: 14 cases in two days suggests a lot of easy noes in this-morning’s meetings.

  • Oh, that’s right… the debate is on. Time to turn off WiFi, shut down router, remove the cable, cut the cable and burn down the flats.

  • My partner who does not work in WordPress circles, but uses WordPress and is thus part of the community, has just told me off for referring to Gutenberg instead of referring to the block editor. I am so seen.

  • Did you know you can just buy two packets of Kingston biscuits instead of a pack of assorted creams. I don’t need no Shortbread Cream or other junk biscuits in my life, I’m not going to pretend any more.

  • It’s time to give the new WordPress default theme a spin. Twenty Twenty-One coming in WP 5.6.

  • The few editorials I’ve read questioning why people stand with Dan seem to forget one thing: it’s possible to think the gov screwed up quarantine on a massive scale AND the lockdown is the safest thing to do right now.

  • I forgot to buy bread this-morning so decided to make crap pasta for lunch. It was at least as nice as the good pasta I made for dinner earlier this week. Conclusion: I am such a bad cook I can even make crap pasta.

  • I was told last week I swear like a journalist. It was both given and taken as compliment of the highest order.

  • Puss cats!

    Selfie of me wearing a mask with cat face silhouettes

  • 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.

    Railway sign showing departure time of Flinders Street train.
    Railway sign showing departure time of Williamstown train.

  • 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