Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • I’m a curious button and wanted to know the background of Cloudflare’s DNS server names. Turns out it’s a really nice method of verification in case multiple people add a domain to their account; I wish more providers would do this.

  • Pro tip: When setting a CDN’s origin server, point it to your current server rather than the one you migrated from last month.

  • A few people at @humanmadeltd have been working on hot module replacement when working with WordPress sites using Gutenberg. @kadamwhite‘s written up the process and shared some GitHub repos to get you started.

    Hot Module Replacement for Gutenberg Blocks

  • Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? Yes or nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah?

  • I believe it is a US Thanksgiving tradition for families to take passive-aggressive digs at each other beginning with “today I am thankful for…”.

    Today I am thankful for plugin developers who check for notices.

  • My work’s looking for a web engineer in the APC region. It’s fully remote, great benefits, you get to work with me (I’m delightful) and a great team (also delightful).

    https://humanmade.com/2018/11/15/join-us-as-a-web-or-senior-web-engineer-asia-pacific/

  • 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/