Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • Time is running out for @Lin_Manuel to win me as an audience member! https://prizeo.com/r/5cMtFM

    Little known totally true fact: each entry is hand written by Man One on a Reynolds Pamphlet and drawn live during #HamiltonPR, maybe.

  • Wikipedia has been updated.

    Screen shot of Wikipedia info box for British PM with Incumbent Pending showing as the name

  • “There are significant parts of the building which are safe.”

    That’s reassuring mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-15/opal-tower-needs-significant-rectifiaction-work-report-finds/10713054

  • Does democracy accept pull requests?

  • CodeKit is my new workflow.

  • EVERYTHING was far similar with MAMP.

  • Hi my name is Peter and I’ve been a web developer for over 20 years.

    I have to check MDN which is the general vs adjacent sibling combinator every time I use them.

  • Toby is learning PowerBI and, anyway, it turns out we’re both twelve years old.

  • Lamb shoulder, roast potatoes, zucchini flower & asparagus at Cumulus.

    Four empty plates

  • Please be sure to cite Cicero when styling blockquotes with Lorem Ipsum. Accuracy in placeholder text is important.

  • Metro trains update: the 6.45 from Footscray is full of people thinking “damn, I should have taken an extra three days”.

  • ? Me
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    ? Not understanding how memes work

  • I guess I should be thankful it wasn’t deconstructed.

    A toasted sandwich served on a chopping board

  • I was congratulated during the year for maturing by checking flight costs before committing to seeing Hamilton ★ Puerto Rico. That’s a little sad.

  • Using flex-basis for some faux-container queries with WordPress galleries. It supports both the block editor and old-school short codes because why not.

  • I’d like to try a static site builder, Eleventy in particular, but dog-fooding the WordPress tools I use at work & for open-source contributions is more important.

  • Using the stupidly hot days to work on a #newwwyear theme for a design I’ve sat on for longer than I care to admit. I’m getting the basics down, will launch and improve it once it’s live.

  • Last day of work checklist


    – Slack ❌
    – Work email ❌
    – Work calendar ❌
    – Tweetbot ❌
    – Clear browser logins
    – 1Password

    The last two are so I don’t just switch to web apps.

  • So, does anyone have any thoughts about CSS today? ?

  • No. Not until I have to.

  • Blog post series idea: Advent calendar in July.

  • If I’m ever convicted of breaking in to a shop, it’s because their electronic signage looks like this.

    Windows notice "important updates are pending"

  • Can confirm, office’s smoke alarms are working. They are very loud.🚨

    Photo of a fire truck
    Several fire trucks

  • I’ve been adding helpful reminders for what to do when I’ve lost work.

    Post it note with the text "Lost work?"
    Post it note with the text "You're on the wrong branch!"
    Post it note with the text "merge master"
    Post it note with the text "run webpack"

  • This code is terrible. Tempted to merge it without tests mainly to see what happens.

  • Namespaces ?

  • I had a choice: breakfast or stay home and watch the SotW live stream. There is a reason my work mates call me a human bin. ? ?

  • On the topic of the WP download counter, it’s kinda amazing that these 244 people have code running on over a million sites after just six or so hours.

    https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/1070811042685562885

  • My deploy script pulls WordPress down from GitHub so it doesn’t get included in the download counter. A part of me wonders if I should include curl -I https://wordpress.org/latest.zip as part of the process.

  • It looks like https://abc.net.au has quietly gone secure by default recently. I’m not sure when but it’s great to see and a huge achievement for a site with so much content.

  • If you deploy arrow functions, you can certainly deploy

    (function(c){
  c.add('js');
  c.remove('no-js')
})(document.documentElement.classList)

  • This is a good example of why I think AMP is harmful to the open web. Google penalises the better performing page by locking it out of the top stories carousel.