Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Current earworm. I can’t think why.

     

  • I’ve worked remote for four years but this is the first time I’ve worked from home rather than an office or co-working space. I’ve replaced my train commute with a walk around the block to allow for a mental switch to work mode each morning.

  • “If” seems incredibly optimistic. We screwed.

  • As bum gun sales in Australia spike, I can feel most countries in our region turning to us and saying “See! What have we been saying all these years!”

  • Despite it’s flaws, I like working with PHP (and I’m fucking good at my job) but sometimes I wonder what I’m doing with my life…

  • Reviewing my development folder yesterday, I discovered I have four checkouts of the WordPress-Develop git repo. I need two… plus an SVN copy for committing.

    Each has a different collection of feature branches…

  • How good are timezones tho?!

  • While Australians are stocking up on toilet paper, I presume Americans are stocking up on guns and ammo.

  • OH: Oh, for fuck’s sake JIRA.

    It was me. I said it aloud. In a sing-song voice.

    While trying to work out the correct markdown favour for the particular field I was using.

  • Today in totally meaningless graphs, spot when I changed employers from one that uses GitHub to one that uses Bitbucket.

  • I want to find the sweariest branch name on GitHub. Bonus points if it’s been merged in to a major open-source project.

  • Ooh, it’s very much a work-in-progress but ABC News appears to be working on a responsive site on their mobile domain, starting with their article template. I know this is a huge undertaking for a 20+ year archive, good luck and thanks team.

  • I always find it interesting to look over an individuals news index to see when they were added as a tag, unless they’re a government minister, it’s usually not a good sign. Take George here for example.

  • Bridget McKenzie’s press cuttings are missing some recent coverage. Odd that. ? http://www.bridgetmckenzie.com.au/Media/In-the-News

  • Must remember to breathe.

  • Atlassian just threw a popup on work’s wiki that hinted toward improved productivity.

    I. Have. A. Wild. Idea. For. Improving. Productivity.

  • What type of monster creates a Hottest 100 playlist that’s neither in ascending or descending order?!

  • Nice: the toilet’s in work’s building flush with storm water. Less nice: I discovered this because they’re all the colour of an upset stomach due to the muddy rain last night.

  • I’m unreasonably pleased with myself that my Bitbucket bizness account name is peterwilsonbcc even though it’s pointless because it shows up as {b75f1b85-98b9-482d-9913-eeb501518274}.

  • PHP singletons are bad. They make you comfort eat.

    A very rich chocolate cake with nuts and berries on top

  • PHP Singletons are bad. If it’s a singleton, it’s just functional code so just write functional code.

    And they make you do bad things in test suites.

  • Would Prime Minister Dutton be better tho? Empathy doesn’t seem to be his strong point.

  • I found a feature I was unaware of in Shifty Jelly’s weather app yesterday. It becomes obsolete & they close down the servers tonight. I have perfect timing, as always.

  • End of the Fucking World season 2 is to TV sequels as Blues Brothers 2000 is to movie sequels.

  • I prefer tabs over spaces; light themes over dark. I can’t help it that the world is wrong.

  • According to @zachleat, this year commemorates a bloody long time since element, um container, um selector queries were first suggested.

  • Big Bird at his kindest, sweetest self, saying goodbye to a friend.

     

  • Cue advent calendar explosion of feed reader. ETA for completion: June.

  • Timezones are the greatest…

    🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕑🕝🕒🕞🕓🕟🕔🕠🕕🕡🕖🕢🕗🕣🕘🕤🕙🕥🕚🕦🕛

  • Multi-millionaires candidates claiming the rich shouldn’t have a greater access to democracy than the less wealthy sure seems like an “only in America” kinda thing.

  • I set up a self-hosted version of @altisdxp over the weekend. I’m only using Core, parts of Cloud, CMS Installer and the Media modules (making it Altish ?‍♂️). As @rmccue has said, it requires a little work but much less than setting it up from scratch.

  • In unit tests

    // No DST in Brisbane to confuse things during the summer months.
update_option( 'timezone_string', 'Australia/Brisbane' );`

    See Queensland does serve a purpose after all… Wild!

  • Live action snapchat dog.

  • Just as I’m thinking “this isn’t a bad 80s playlist”, Daryl Braithwaite’s Horses starts playing. This is why we can’t have nice things.

  • Instantly Dear Evan Hansen slash fic spikes ?

  • I often wonder what the little +45 seconds button has done to the business model of the podcasting startup.

    Screen shot of Apple Podcast play screen with buttons to skip forward and backward by 45 seconds

  • Today’s experiment is an eight hour beef ragu.

  • Googling Windows 95 images, I came across these instructions from Radford University, Virginia, for setting up a modem. I love that this page still exists.

  • Hi, my name is Peter.

    Sometimes my job is typing git bisect good; npm install; npm run build or git bisect bad; npm install; npm run build for hours on end.

  • I don’t think anyone in the industry can defend this.

    – Professor of animal behaviour and welfare science on 7.30

    We can no longer track them… Where are the state government inspectors?

    – Racing Industry

    Often it’s an exaggerated situation…

    – NSW Govt.

  • Very happy to have found a shoe shop that caters for duck feet.

    A pair of brown leather brogues leaning against a shoe box
    A pair of street shoes leaning against a shoe box

  • I have got to get better at resisting the urge to make a pun.

  • When it comes to WordPress roles & caps, one of the things my current and former colleagues love hearing about is my insistence primitives be plural and meta be singular, even if it requires awkward phrasing. They never want to tell me to shut up.

  • K, I’m kinda bored of developers complaining “Why is (the possible) impossible in WordPress?!”

    Want to only allow posts, no media, no plugins, no theme changes, no nothing, not even for admins? Put this in mu-plugins https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/ce2c1f2376b9b158125d0a2e4ff57567

  • Now you’re just taking the piss.

    > pwcc = [];
[]
> ( ( pwcc == false ) == ( ! pwcc ) )
false

  • Ugh, flight delayed by a late passenger. Of course it’s Warwick Capper and of course we passed him sitting in the wrong lounge.

  • My friends get me ?

  • After twelve days of this I am ready to black out all the windows at work. I just know this is going to stick around for the next four months.

  • Congratulations Geekbot on finding the subject line of an unsolicited feedback request with the least chance of success.

  • One of the reasons I like Survivor is because the host will weather it out with the contestants. You could see JLP thinking “this is shithouse” on last nights #SurvivorAU.