Archives: Notes

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.

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

Teenage boy writes some letters

pic.twitter.com/gPbrYVVfje

— ༄ carolina (@smackinpackin) November 24, 2020

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.

Hi, I’m Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton. This is my first official tweet so I wanted to let you know what I’m keen to focus on – environmental health, food safety and communicable disease. I’ll promote new CHO alerts, so pls RT!

— Chief Health Officer, Victoria (@VictorianCHO) November 14, 2019

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

“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!

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.