Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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}.

  • 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 ?