Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

    Map of COVID-19 data by postcode. The postcode 3011 is selected.
    Map of COVID-19 data by local government region. The city of Maribyrnong is selected.

  • 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.

    ??

  • 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.

    A table laid with a large meal of lamb, potatoes, asparagus, a green salad and wine.

  • 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.

  • Doing some testing to try an emulate how a journalist might use works CMS. One of the things I am testing is quoting Dan Andrews press conference. TVeeder is pretty amazing.

  • Press conferences could really do with some house and walk-on music. And a stage manager’s discipline for starting on time.

  • That every news organisation has a reliable source leaking Victoria’s C-19 numbers every day, I can’t help but think the ship of state is leaking from the top again.

  • It turns out my office is within 5km of home. Not that I have any plans to go near it, ugh train trips, but it’s amusing me on a rough day for a lot of Victorians.

  • Combining Hamilton and the Muppets is a great idea and remains hilarious right up until the point you wake with an ear worm of a chicken rapping.

  • The latest release notes for @Docker Desktop for Mac include a privilege escalation vulnerability under the section bug fixes and minor changes, their version of bug fixes and improvements. I’d highlight that a little more.

  • Politicians, a few of the general public are interested in watching pressers these days. Something about a pandemic. Here are some phone numbers for coordinating to avoid clashes.

    @ScottMorrisonMP 02 6271 5111
    @DanielAndrewsMP 03 9651 5000
    @GladysB 02 9228 5555

    Animated gif of David Tennant as Doctor Who saying thank you

  • Wine ✅
    #HamilFilm
    Again ✅

  • My Bank: We encourage customers to wear a mask when entering our branches.

    2020 is fucking weird. I know this isn’t the weirdest thing about the year, yet, it’s still very, very fucking weird.

  • Our lounge looks out on to a walking path and I noticed a steady increase in the number of masks being worn after Dan Andrews announced they’d be mandatory from mid-week. I’m not seeing any locals complain online either, the reaction’s “this is what we do now”.

  • There is a cafe I go to and somehow they think my name is Chris. I’ve never given them a name, much less Chris, but I haven’t got the heart to correct them.

  • jQuery will be updated in WordPress 5.5, starting with removing jQuery-migrate. Theme and plugin developers, it’s super important you test your code. There’s a plugin for that.

  • It’s a little foggy. It’s even colder than it looks.

  • There’s a content marketing podcast I listen to and sometimes the CTA is to visit their hiring board. Sometimes their content is about feeling bad because they’re about to ruin some employees next four weekends. I’m no marketing genius but…

  • Workplace pride and all, but @CraigDButt and the data team at the Age & SMH have been doing some excellent work with C-19 stats recently. This article in particular is great to see what’s going on in Vic.

    Spoiler: it’s ugly.

  • 1. Times Square before 10pm
    2. Coffee shops not run by Australians
    3. Showtime @ The Majestic Theatre

    https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/1280304151176663040

  • As of Saturday, Footscray (3011) has three neighbouring postcodes in stage three lockdown. Going for a walk yesterday, I could see the heightened tension had returned. I think 3011 will be locked back down by Friday.

    Still, we’re lucky compared to the people in the towers.

  • Peter, what are the best songs in #hamilFilm?

    Well, of course, there’s this song in the first act, that song in the second. But such’n’such is amazing in this and that. In the first act watch for this trio of songs, and that trio in the second. 46 songs later they regret asking.

  • I am overthinking #hamilfilm and have plans…

    Show time: 7:30pm because broadway always goes up late
    D+ have a one minute interval on the tape, pausing to extend it to 10 minutes
    Wine: Nice. In a glass. Broadway’s sippy cups are bad, the wine is worse.

    Hamilton, Lafayette, Laurens and Mulligan on stage in Hamilton under the text "What time is it? Showtime!"

  • Breath, Peter, breath!

    EIGHT HOURS!

  • I’ve just realised I’ve been working from home for more than 100 days this week. Kinda bored with it now.

  • Because I have a problem, I made a Hamilton Film countdown for my second screen. PS I do not actually think my problem is a problem. https://codepen.io/peterwilsoncc/full/KKVXJZq

  • If @disneyplus‘s horizontal scaling does not look like this on Friday, I will challenge someone to a duel.

  • In AEST, Hamilton drops at the very convenient time of 5pm Friday. Me at 4:59pm:

  • Middle-class CIS white guys explaining term X is inclusive, and they’ve always found community Y nothing but welcoming is my new favourite thing.

    Yes, it’s always middle-class CIS white guys.

  • Censorship in the USA is the worst, Australian censors don’t give three fucks about language as a rule.

  • Victorian Cabinet, this Friday.

  • [The] WordPress community can invest in underrepresented groups (whose experiences cannot be substituted for) and hire them equitably. — @JosephaHaden

    Equity and the Power of Community

     

  • There have been at least 434 deaths since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ended in 1991. Non-Indigenous men are expected to live 8.6 years longer than indigenous men, non-indigenous women 7.8 years longer. #BlackLivesMatterAustralia

  • Yesterday the team I work with won a little international award, ❤️ working with super talented people ?

    ?? @humanmadeltd & @XWP for your early work; and @WordPress contributors (especially the Editor team) for the platform we work on.

  • My WP journey:

    • 12 yrs ago: wrote my first site
    • 11 yrs ago: WP & PHP became my career
    • 9 yrs ago: submitted first patch
    • 5 yrs ago: started contributing regularly
    • last weekend: deep in Walker and Query classes, ugh

    It’s been real…

    Celebrate Seventeen

     

  • Can we start writing c9s instead of coronavirus yet?

  • I am too excited to come up with a wait for it pun.

  • One of the idiot protesters yesterday didn’t want to be seen as anti-science for her scepticism of a coronavirus vaccine, 5G towers and the deadliness of COVID-19. They’re simply “anti-fake science”. Well, I’m glad that’s sorted then.

  • The hands down best lines of WordPress Core didn’t get props & didn’t close a ticket. https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/commit-messages/

    I’ve been reading old commits today.

  • Last week @kadamwhite asked me for three songs each for partying & chilling. No rules. None were applied

    Partying:

    • Chumbawamba, Tubthumping
    • Taylor Swift, 22
    • Gwen Stefani, Hollaback Girl

    Chilling:

    • Dolly Parton, Jolene
    • Nina Simone, I Put A Spell On You
    • Alabama Shakes, Hold On