Archives: Notes

Watching Die Hard with my nephew who claims it is not a Christmas movie. This may split the family.

There is something incredibly satisfying about beating the shit out of your dinner before cooking it.

Food coma

After doing some reading yesterday on how data is sent to the government, I decided to install CovidSafe despite my concerns. Damned if you do, but we’re more damned if you don’t.

Why am I craving a “Christ Laurie!” Sylvania Waters gif? The body wants what it wants, I guess.

So has the COVID-19 contact tracing app being explicitly exempted from the meta data and anti-encryption laws or is the gov just hoping we’ll forget they’ve overreached under the name of national security?

When cookbook authors call for covering a frypan with a lid, are the naive or optimistic that we won’t use a plate or another frypan?

How about we all fess up and stop calling them meat balls and start calling them meat shapes instead?!

Work uses Google Meet and when I’ve got a few meetings, I keep the home page on my second screen. To avoid the cycling of backgrounds in my peripheral vision, I use this bookmarklet.

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    d.querySelector( '.q9EjXc' ).style.visibility="hidden";
    d.querySelector('.yvv8Re.OAburf').style.backgroundColor='black';
    d.querySelector('.l4V7wb.Fxmcue').style.display="none";
} )(window.document);

For some reason Mad World makes me think of dying bunny rabbits. ?

Currently reading this ranking of the various Arnott’s biscuits. This has gone too far. And the ranking is wrong.

The humble Kingston biscuit has its own Wikipedia page and now I’ve fallen down a hole looking up the entire assorted creams family.

As someone who works at a news organisation, you’d really think Anbrew Dolt would have heard about NYC, Italy, the United Kingdom and on countless cruise ships. Maybe he doesn’t read or watch anyone that will employ him either?

I included youtube.com/watch?v=cqvVL8IurMw as a sample YouTube URL in a pull request and now every time it gets updated, Gmail embeds a preview in the email. How am I supposed to remain productive under these conditions?!

Malcolm Turnbull was a true visionary when it came to the NBN. I mean, that vision hadn’t changed since OzEmail’s early days but a vision is a vision…

Sitting down to watch an episode of The Goodies before the news for old times’ sake. Here’s to your memory TBT.

Middle to upper income earners able to work remotely explaining it’s ill advised to access retirement funds to get through this pandemic is my new favourite thing. Entitled much, sunshine?

Does anyone know where to buy a hoop skirt for shopping in? Because people.

You can tell an experienced WordPress developer by their inability to spell small-a automattic.

I just cleaned the vacuum filter, why do you ask if I am bored?

Wanted: novel(ty) coronavirus stories about staying occupied at home that do not–I repeat, do not–involve running a marathon. Someone, please set up a wave machine in the bath, raise cattle in a spare room, really anything to put editors out of their misery.

Normally don’t do these either but #stayinside

5 jobs (zero tags)

+ Photo copy human
+ Tech support
+ Web developer
+ TV extra (a few times working at @rove)
+ That’s it, no fifth job

https://twitter.com/thewebprincess/status/1243699762806657026

Why do people people?

I’ve been going for an early morning walk (6.30 w/d, little later w/e) to maintain my sanity and have noticed the early morning crew are much better at maintaining social distance that the day crew.

One and bit percent of WordPress users is still quite a lot of users and makes dropping support for legacy browsers complex…

Now’s your chance to help the project set up some guidelines.

A typical 2020 dinner party.

Making dinner plans with @thewebprincess. 7pm over Zoom because that’s how people socialise in 2020.

The local cafe @milkingstation has been taking COVID-19 very seriously, in today’s episode of things that wouldn’t have seemed possible in January: spots on the floor telling customers where they should stand.

Harvey Norman have a 14 day change of mind policy.

If (and only if) your income is safe during this time, please go and tip big at a cafe today, think about what you usually spend on lunch each week as a baseline.

Again, only if your income is safe (I work in media, for example). If it’s at risk, look after yourself first.

if you’re having trouble focusing on work, or anything else, it’s not that you’re terrible at working from home or bad at your job. It’s that you’re doing this in a set of circumstances completely unprecedented in our lifetimes.

— Eric Meyer

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}.