Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • A couple nearby were arguing about Brexit and are now staring at each other in awkward silence. He’s pro, she’s against.

  • Watching Simon try to find an idol last night was like watching a cat trying to use a pen. #survivorau

  • Wearing the shark socks a local cafe was kind enough to give me for Fathers’ Day yesterday. This is despite me being about as fatherly as your average four year-old.

  • Ugh. Has Morrison vowed to fix all the people wearing purple at PM&C today too? Prat.

  • I’m pleased to see the Footscray park redevelopment on hold. It’s not an unused public space needing to be revitalised, it’s usually crowded on weekends with BBQs and cultural events https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-27/maribyrnong-council-weighs-melbourne-victory-footscray-park-plan/11454642

  • As a former visitor, I love this description of Rock City in American Gods. This perfectly accurate description.

  • This is access for all but no where near equal access for all.

    Sign: For use of lift call centre management on a blurred phone number.
    Instructions for disabled lift headed no freight

  • In the best tradition of uncles with no kids, so no possibility of revenge, we took our niece and nephew to a junk food degustation on the weekend. Whoa, am I glad we did that at the end of the day rather than the start.

  • I’d really like to be able to copy Gerry Harvey’s personal email address, the one that doesn’t go to a PA, every time I ask a foreign company asking for a valid tax invoice for a purchase b/w $82.50 and $1000.

  • Exploring the HTTP Archive data on Big Query. It’s interesting but demo queries with `/* warning: this costs several hundred dollars to run. */` sure add a little unwanted excitement to the mix.

  • It kinda makes me proud to see this blown up and displayed at the new job’s offices. If memory serves, The Age was among a vast majority of news outlets to call it out at the time.

  • A macOS podcast called This Dongle Life hosted by Sarah Koenig during Serial’s off-season.

  • As my AWS free period comes to an end, I’m trying to work out if the billing console predicts based on previous use or previous costs. It looks like costs (which is useless) but that may be because my site is over-engineered for its up to dozen visitors per day.

  • One of the most interesting CMS projects in the country is for the Age, SMH & AFR’s Product/Tech team. It’s good to be back with the team, this time in-house after working with them as an HM client a few years ago. https://medium.com/metro-product-technology/welcome-to-the-metro-product-technology-blog-2a51ba8e749f

  • Great to see Google has expanded its guide to robots.txt https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt

    Remember robots.txt will not prevent a site from being indexed, only a noindex meta tag/HTTP header will do that. https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/

  • Tomorrow’s my last day at Human Made before starting a new gig later this-week. It was lovely to spend a week with around half the company at WCEU recently, they really are a delightful crew.

  • So many models of Enigma machines at the Spy Museum ?️‍♂️

    An enigma machine in a wooden box
    A steal enigma machine
    An enigma machine in very poor condition

  • About 10 percent of the audience of @thewebprincess’s WordCamp Europe talk work daily in a second language. It’s a challenge of remote.

    Deal Teal presenting at WordCamp Europe
    A slide showing a world map with pins dropped in numerous locations

  • I’m pleased about how much control I’ve taken over my news intake recently. Blocking sites in my user CSS has helped, of course, but I’m less focused on bad news. It’s become habit now so I’ll unblock them in a couple of weeks.

  • Online arts publications after a volunteer for Senior Correspondent for Getting Free Tickets to the Hamilton Opening in Sydney, I’m your best person. We can work on the title.

  • Instead of above and below the line voting in the senate, it would be nice to have a separate area for racists, gun nuts, anit-vaxxers, homophobes and miscellaneous loonies.

  • There’s now a Chassis extension for WordPress core development with an ever so helpful copy and paste config file. A few people contributed but @kadamwhite put in a tonne of effort. https://github.com/Chassis/core-dev

  • FAXES! METCARDS!

    A shop sign saying "Metcard sold here, Photocopy services, Fax services"

  • Styling fieldsets and legends is still the worst.

  • Reading @rachelandrew’s excellent article on box generation & I’m confused. Is the display:contents bug always a problem or fine to use on the semantically meaningless div & span elements? https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/05/display-box-generation/

  • If you really want your WordPress hook to run first, or just troll @rmccue, run it at priority PHP_INT_MIN * 200.

    If that doesn’t run first, PHP_INT_MIN * PHP_INT_MAX.

    And if that doesn’t run first…

  • Wow, no one was expecting the entire cast of GOT to be killed off in episode two and replaced with the Comedy Company’s original cast. That twist was beautiful.

  • I get irrationally annoyed when I see “waiting for xxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net” as I visit a site. C’mon, have some professional pride and set up an alias on Route 53. It’s 50 cents!

  • A great post from @Dries acknowledging open-source isn’t a meritocracy allowing anyone to open a pull-request but is instead for a privileged few groups.

  • The APAC team at Human Made are doing Wear it like it’s Wednesday today (reverse casual Friday). I don’t mind saying, I look amazing.

  • Recommended custom styles for news sites:

    html::before {
  content: "It's all terrible and depressing." !important;
  display: block !important;
  position: fixed !important;
  top: 0 !important;
  left: 0 !important;
  right: 0 !important;
  bottom: 0 !important;
  height: auto !important;
  max-height: none !important;
  width: auto !important;
  max-width: none !important;
  z-index: 999999 !important;
  background: black !important;
  font-size: 50px !important;
  font-family: impact !important;
  color: white !important;
  text-align: center !important;
  padding-top: 50px !important;
}

  • Developer buddies: hands up if you hear a project is using Jira and say to yourself “oh goody”. Hello? Anyone? So just me then.

    I still can’t figure out which markdown flavour to use on any one screen, though.

  • Listening to @sciencevs Alcohol. Don’t burst my bubble, Zukerman!

    A glass of wine sitting next to an Air pod box

  • This happened to me at Royal Melbourne after a seizure, I agreed to go private in ER but reconsidered once admitted. They only let up the pressure when I said I was vulnerable, had suffered a neurological event & couldn’t make sound decisions while in ER.

  • I listened to the first episode of the Women in WordPress podcast on this morning’s commute. Damn, it’s excellent.

  • Taking a radical approach to taking back control of my news intake.

  • Last year I accidentally took up smoking again and now I’m quitting again. I’d forgotten how persuasive Addict Brain can be but I’m about to hit the point where the primary motivation becomes avoiding the hard part again more than anything else.

  • Caption: it was a lot of hard work.

    I can’t help that a lot of the hallway track happened in the pool.

    A thirst-trap photo of me in a pool relaxing against the pool-deck.

  • I mean, I would have gone with “Bored pilot willies away the time”. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-20/bored-adelaide-pilot-leaves-message-on-flight-radar/10829262

  • Thank you @rem for allowing script execution to be moved on @js_bin, it makes POCs much easier:

    <script>
  %code%
</script>

  • Everyone has their selfie face.

  • When testing permissions, the four users I always create are Arthur Author, Con Contributor, Ed Editor and Adam Admin.

    What would I say to my younger self? You get paid to entertain yourself with weak puns.

  • Last night, I was definitely over-thinking why I like this

    It’s improved but there’s 3 tropes for gay guys

    • star: never gets laid
    • sidekick: roots around
    • reality contestant: big personality

    So it’s a nice ending to see two guys who are just a couple

    https://twitter.com/BenSPLATT/status/1091414170053083137

  • This is stupid, why has var_dump() stopped working?!

    Nope, no typo.

    What?!

    Why?

    Wh?

    Oh. JavaScript.

    I’ve been developing websites for 20 years.

  • Why are you reading this when you could be watching Ben Platt’s new film clip? ❤️

  • Does anyone have a bot that will randomly pipe z reset to a Slack channel? Asking for a fiend.

  • For WordPress 5.1, @afercia has done some nice work taking this message to heart ? whatdomobileuserswanttodo.com?