Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • 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/