Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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

    🗳️

    🗳️🗳️🗳️

  • 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.