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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!

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.

🌻

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.