Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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?

  • Q: How do I deal with this IE bug?
    A (+30 votes): IE’s a disaster, deal with it.

    Stack Overflow is a quite amazing trash fire.

  • I forced a bot to read 1000 hours of scripts by bots forced to read 1000 hours of scripts. It yawned.

  • I’m always surprised that margin-top: x% is a based on the parent’s width, while height: x% is based on the parent’s height isn’t on this list. https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

  • Has anyone tried CSS-in-decent-workplace-laws-including-paying-out-owed-PTO-if-you-get-fired-America-I’m-looking-at-you yet?

  • I’m kind of wishing I was at New York’s Music Box Theatre today seeing another ? sign off.

    I’m kind of wishing I was at the University of Puerto Rico’s Teatro UPR today seeing another ★ sign off.

    Instead I’m in Melbourne being the ? sad mask.

  • ABC using more and more click bait headlines — what does that really mean?

  • Started reading a very old & fragile print of Catch-22 last night, I think it was originally Dad’s or possibly even Grandpa’s. It’s so old the cover price is in imperial currency. It was also stolen from a library.

  • If only Jetpack had a prominent link when connecting to wordpress.com with the data sharing details. Oh, will you look at that…

  • Apparently @thorstenfrommen is going to teach everyone at work how to solve a cube in under three seconds next month.

  • When running unit tests across multiple versions of PHP, it always impresses me how much faster recent versions are. If your web host doesn’t have version 7.2 or 7.3 as an option, find one that does.

  • I’m really pleased the older signage was retained in the Degraves Street underpass as part of the Flinders Street Station renovations.

  • Toby is asking me to check some domains. I’m including dot cc in the look up.

    “Stop trying to make dot cc a thing.”

    We’re having a fight now.

  • This is a great example of what I think of as hashtag design; the design is considered but not the purpose.

  • Hard pass on Rush ing to the cinema to see a new adaption of a movie I loved as a kid.