Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Tough day for the NAB CEO as his pay falls about a third, he now earns a mere 65 times the medium wage. Andrew is one of the real victims of the royal commission.

  • I made a weak joke about the marquee element last week but forgot to escape the version on my website.

  • Supporting Gutenberg’s standard, wide and full width alignments in modern browsers doesn’t require a media query. CSS Grid can just deal with it.

    The code is adapted from Rachel Andrew’s explainer for breaking out of the grid.

  • The secret to a strong democracy is preferential voting and a sausage in a bun.

  • Me asking my American friends to vote in 2016 vs me asking my American friends to vote in 2018

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    🗳️🗳️🗳️

  • Why do we talk about the days of <marquee> but never emulating the effect in the status bar with JavaScript?

  • The filter names for disabling the block editor (Gutenberg) in WordPress 5.0 will be slightly different to those in the plugin.

    It’s a simple copy and paste to prepare.

     

  • Taking a stroll down memory lane. It’s, frankly, weird down here. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34698

  • Often I review my own code, even when it’s an experiment.

    Code review written by me "This is terrible" followed by the text "peterwilsoncc closed this pull request two days ago"

  • In Manchester Lane, Melbourne.

    A cat in a photo frame in the been shredded with a mouse looking on. The characters are in the style of Tom and Jerry.

  • Brisbanites come along to @wordcampbne this weekend to see my former client @d3v1an7 and I talk about some of the things we got up working on the Fairfax CMS together, including the awkward bits in any client/agency relationship.

    https://2018.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/greenfields-or-die-modernizing-publishing-for-2018/

  • It’s hard to believe Peter Dutton will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means hurting those closest to him.

  • You: Amazing, the PM forgot to renew his domain.

    Me: Amazing, the person who bought it paid 50 bucks. What a rip off.

  • “On this side project, I’m going to keep my commit messages professional.”

    $ git log --format=oneline
Commit with swear words.
Remove tests because they’re broken anyway.
Move it, stab at things.
Fix dumb things.
Everything is shit, ooh everything is shit.

  • A government panel is to recommend schools be able to turn away gay students under the guise of religious freedom.

    It’s weird how it’s only the religious freedom of homophones is considered when these things come up.

  • Sometimes I’d quite like `andif` to be a thing to avoid stupidly deep nesting levels.

    if ( condition1 ) {
  $var1 = 'something';
} andif ( condition2 ) {
  $var2 = 'something';
}

  • OH: Was that a “kill me”?

    What?! I’m dealing with build tool conflicts, okay!

  • Bug-tracker terms for closing a ticket without needing a fix are really unfriendly, wontfix is too blunt, invalid sounds like a criticism.

  • This is some great news, it will be great to see Mike working full time on WordPress. Congratulations @GetSource and @GoDaddy.

  • A lambda function that uses the GitHub and Genius APIs to determine when someone is quoting lyrics in a code review.

    Reviewer: I’m searching and scanning for answers in every line
    Bot: ?

  • I’m listening to the Slow Burn series on Bill Clinton’s impeachment. I’m about the same age as Lewinsky so it’s interesting to reconsider now I understand a twenty-something does not know everything and does not have full agency.

    A big component of reconsidering this is to think about the people old enough to know better at the time but defended Clinton anyway. Where was their judgement, their morel character?

  • My friend @web_goddess is raising money this month for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. You, yes you, should donate a few dollars and help her exceed her target. It’s a good cause. https://www.mycause.com.au/page/185950/kris-howard

  • I’ve seen a “RT if you’ve crossed the road to avoid scaring a woman” tweet going around.

    This isn’t the height of gentlemanly behavior, it’s the world’s lowest hurdle. Crossing the road is literally the least you can do, guys.

  • Bash command of the day sudo echo "127.0.0.1 twitter.com" >> /etc/hosts

  • Emma Alberici: pleasantly surprised to find she is both alive and a trending topic. Justin Milne: a trending topic.

  • Between Chrome becoming more integrated with Google and Firefox installing extensions without permissions (again, telemetry this time), I’m tempted to switch back to Lynx.

  • Turns out there was more to Torvalds’ epiphany and the Linux Foundation’s sudden adoption of a code of conduct than Torvalds suggested. Imagine my surprise.

  • The Prime Minister has spoken about allowing *more* discrimination of queer folk under the guise of religious freedom.

    Sure, let’s talk ’bout the puppets everyone.

  • Found near sushi shop

  • What’s particularly cute about this is that Getty will start sending infringement claims to people who sourced the images free from sites showing the original creative commons license

  • If you’re interested in trying Gutenberg but one or two post types aren’t ready, don’t let it stop you. There’s a filter for that and it’s nine lines of code to work around.

     

  • “Bank-grade security” is actually the worst. Common password limits are a maximum length of 16 or fewer characters, preventing the use of symbols, DOB password defaults. No wonder things like this can happen.

  • Oh honey, no.

  • I tried the Freedom app to block distractions, apparently I signed up for dozens of drip emails and a modal that forces me to their website on every boot.

    It’s worse than the distractions I am trying to avoid so I deleted it from my account.

  • Breaking: Dangerous anti-vaccine propagandist distances himself from dangerous white supremacy propagandist.

  • Eventually everyone will create a new Markdown flavour and promote it as the source of truth.

  • Peter Dutton’s values 101:

    Just: imprisoning someone fleeing a war zone
    Unjust: deporting the middle class breaching their visa to work for his mates

    Just: bakers being homophobic
    Unjust: 70% of Australians disagreeing about the bakers

  • I find it surprising how many CSS articles reverse media queries incorrectly.

    To reverse @media (min-width: 5em)

    ❌ @media (max-width: 5em)
    ✅ @media not all and (min-width: 5em)

  • What was your first job out of high school?

  • Nothing slows you down working on a PR like finding code to work around a major bug you helped introduce.

  • I’d love to know how many CSS and markup fixes newsroom devs have deployed for their white-on-black home page leaders in the last few days.

  • Nudeing up and burning shit, I finally remember the align and justify axis without having to visit MDN. Every. Damn. Time.

  • Dear spammers, a heteronormative worldview is limiting your opportunity for profit.

  • Third party Twitter app users, particularly Tweetbot, has your battery life plummeted since the switch from the streaming API last week?

  • Cafe is playing Aretha. I’m working out how many albums I can sit on a coffee for.

  • “We’ve heard your feedback on #breakingmytwitter, we’ve made a conscious decision to ignore it”

  • Five months, three weeks and two days after making use of the US medical system for four hours, my travel insurance claim has been approved ?

    From friends’ experiences I gather this is quicker than the US medical industry usually manages. What a shit show.

  • It’s good to be back in the motherland.

  • Me, buying shoes: $80 low cut vans/converse.

    Me, looking at shoes: $500, Italian leather so soft they caresses your foot more than carry you

    Anyway, looking at shoes wishing I didn’t have flat duck feet.

  • I never thought I’d walk upstairs from an overground train to get to an underground platform. Yet, here I am at Whitechapel station…