Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • There’s a content marketing podcast I listen to and sometimes the CTA is to visit their hiring board. Sometimes their content is about feeling bad because they’re about to ruin some employees next four weekends. I’m no marketing genius but…

  • Workplace pride and all, but @CraigDButt and the data team at the Age & SMH have been doing some excellent work with C-19 stats recently. This article in particular is great to see what’s going on in Vic.

    Spoiler: it’s ugly.

  • 1. Times Square before 10pm
    2. Coffee shops not run by Australians
    3. Showtime @ The Majestic Theatre

    https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/1280304151176663040

  • As of Saturday, Footscray (3011) has three neighbouring postcodes in stage three lockdown. Going for a walk yesterday, I could see the heightened tension had returned. I think 3011 will be locked back down by Friday.

    Still, we’re lucky compared to the people in the towers.

  • Peter, what are the best songs in #hamilFilm?

    Well, of course, there’s this song in the first act, that song in the second. But such’n’such is amazing in this and that. In the first act watch for this trio of songs, and that trio in the second. 46 songs later they regret asking.

  • I am overthinking #hamilfilm and have plans…

    Show time: 7:30pm because broadway always goes up late
    D+ have a one minute interval on the tape, pausing to extend it to 10 minutes
    Wine: Nice. In a glass. Broadway’s sippy cups are bad, the wine is worse.

    Hamilton, Lafayette, Laurens and Mulligan on stage in Hamilton under the text "What time is it? Showtime!"

  • Breath, Peter, breath!

    EIGHT HOURS!

  • I’ve just realised I’ve been working from home for more than 100 days this week. Kinda bored with it now.

  • Because I have a problem, I made a Hamilton Film countdown for my second screen. PS I do not actually think my problem is a problem. https://codepen.io/peterwilsoncc/full/KKVXJZq

  • If @disneyplus‘s horizontal scaling does not look like this on Friday, I will challenge someone to a duel.

  • In AEST, Hamilton drops at the very convenient time of 5pm Friday. Me at 4:59pm:

  • Middle-class CIS white guys explaining term X is inclusive, and they’ve always found community Y nothing but welcoming is my new favourite thing.

    Yes, it’s always middle-class CIS white guys.

  • Censorship in the USA is the worst, Australian censors don’t give three fucks about language as a rule.

  • Victorian Cabinet, this Friday.

  • [The] WordPress community can invest in underrepresented groups (whose experiences cannot be substituted for) and hire them equitably. — @JosephaHaden

    Equity and the Power of Community

     

  • There have been at least 434 deaths since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ended in 1991. Non-Indigenous men are expected to live 8.6 years longer than indigenous men, non-indigenous women 7.8 years longer. #BlackLivesMatterAustralia

  • Yesterday the team I work with won a little international award, ❤️ working with super talented people ?

    ?? @humanmadeltd & @XWP for your early work; and @WordPress contributors (especially the Editor team) for the platform we work on.

  • My WP journey:

    • 12 yrs ago: wrote my first site
    • 11 yrs ago: WP & PHP became my career
    • 9 yrs ago: submitted first patch
    • 5 yrs ago: started contributing regularly
    • last weekend: deep in Walker and Query classes, ugh

    It’s been real…

    Celebrate Seventeen

     

  • Can we start writing c9s instead of coronavirus yet?

  • I am too excited to come up with a wait for it pun.

  • One of the idiot protesters yesterday didn’t want to be seen as anti-science for her scepticism of a coronavirus vaccine, 5G towers and the deadliness of COVID-19. They’re simply “anti-fake science”. Well, I’m glad that’s sorted then.

  • The hands down best lines of WordPress Core didn’t get props & didn’t close a ticket. https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/commit-messages/

    I’ve been reading old commits today.

  • Last week @kadamwhite asked me for three songs each for partying & chilling. No rules. None were applied

    Partying:

    • Chumbawamba, Tubthumping
    • Taylor Swift, 22
    • Gwen Stefani, Hollaback Girl

    Chilling:

    • Dolly Parton, Jolene
    • Nina Simone, I Put A Spell On You
    • Alabama Shakes, Hold On

  • 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.

    Uncooked chicken breast under cling wrap with a tenderizing mallet sitting next to it

  • Food coma

    A meal of chicken, coleslaw and rice

  • 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?

    A fry pan on a stove top, the fry pan is covered with a ceramic plate

  • 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.

    javascript:( (d) => {
    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.