Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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…

  • When Hamilton finally opens in Melbourne, I will break a leg to get to the opening night. I’m not too fussy whether it’s mine or someone else’s.

  • Confession time, here’s what I’ve got…

    I accidentally went to Hamilton West End again last night. This is a really good cast!

    The Hamilton West End stage

  • Ticketmaster UK does not accept all valid email addresses. The error message doesn’t tell you this, you just have to figure it out by missing out on tickets before remembering what a hot mess Ticketmaster is.

    I might have to concede dot cc is sometimes less than cool.

  • I’m seeing a tonne of ads for @HamiltonWestEnd around town & it amuses me because I reckon they could stick this in the theatre’s window and sell out.

    A post it note with a hand drawn star and Hamilton written in all caps

  • community standards of Twitter suspend victims defending themselves against hate speech while allowing the hate speech to flourish.

  • Finally getting around to seeing Les Mis.

    The Les Miserables stage

  • The best way to experience London is to:
    – pretend pounds are Australian dollars
    – ddos your internet banking from the hotel wifi so they block the IP address
    – worry about rent later

  • Returns to holiday rest day and reading in bed with my eyes shut.

  • Even on holiday I care about plugins affecting the performance of my site. https://github.com/peterwilsoncc/doitlive.peterwilson.cc/blob/master/mu-plugins/pwcc-helpers/inc/jetpack-fixes/namespace.php

    Not enough to test code before I deploy though.

  • Room where it happens (London Edition)

    The West End Hamilton stage

  • An early morning hotel power outage presents a unique opportunity to see the best and the worst in people. Reactions range from “this is a bit of fun” to “I don’t care that you’re working on it, when will it be be back?!”

  • …and finally, I’d like to thank the ATO for sending through my tax return the day before my holidays.

  • Now: My Health Record rushes to update its partner terms and conditions without adding privacy controls

    2020: My Health Records starts running a Facebook style “data misuse is not our friend” advertising campaign.

  • As someone with an minor but ongoing medical condition, I was onboard with My Health Record until I learnt HealthEngine was one of their partners. Now, not so much.

  • ⚪ Tabs
    ⚪ Spaces
    ⚪ .editorconfig
    ⚪ CI to resolve CS violations

  • I need to write up how I over engineered a site that sometimes gets over a dozen visitors a day. (Most to a post I wrote in 2011)

  • A few of us are making musical theatre puns in work’s slack (I didn’t start it) and now 90% of people are logged out.

  • I’d love to know the average time on page for the CSS-Tricks and MDN guides to CSS Grid. Often I have one or the other open in a tab for hours on end.

  • Fun meta tag to put in static websites:

    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 0.7" />

  • It’s not as cool as CSS Grid but I I think logical properties and values (margin-inline-start, float: start, etc) will be game changers once the spec comes out of draft.

  • Fortunately it’s not im□ortant but □h□storm has lost the ability to dis□lay the character □. I can’t see that being a □roblem as I attem□t to develo□ Word□ress □rojects for my □aycheque.

  • Mark Latham’s bitterness is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

  • Spent yesterday resurrecting a site from the wayback machine. It works but I don’t recommend it as a hobby.

    Anyway, it’s good to have bigredtin.com back online, a (very out of date) blog @sealfur and I wrote a few years ago.

  • Specificity, My Old Nemesis, We Meet Again.

  • Hands down, my favourite feature hack of any application is Shifty Jelly’s Pocket Weather using notification badges to show the current temperature. I’m not sure what happens when the temp drops to freezing or below.

  • Just had a follow-up phone call, the very friendly (!) claims agent who’s taken over from a staff member that quite apologised. Cats and dogs living together.

  • Confession: I use a light editor.

    It all started when I needed it for copy-pasting code highlighting into keynote and I got hooked. Don’t do drugs kids.

  • The supported and unsupported logic in media queries is very strange:

    ✅ ||
    ✅ &&
    ✅ !
    ⛔️ ! ( a || b )
    ✅ ! ( a && b )
    ⛔️ ( a && ! b )
    ✅ >=
    ⛔️ >
    ✅ <= ? < ✅ == ✅ != Bring on full calc support, bring on the syntax improvements.

  • I’m guessing disabling the redirect from Gmail to Inbox can be taken as a sign Google’s going to shut down Inbox.

  • Two of my favourite moments in Dear Evan Hansen are how angry @rachelbayjones sounds in Good For You just moments before breaking hearts on the couch. Thanks Rachel. ?

  • SBS selling Optus the World Cup rights only to be given them back is one of the all time great business decisions.

  • I was looking at the JIRA source code and found how they determine the markdown flavour to use on any one interface:

    Math.random()

  • Replies to insurance company request for further information with a passive aggressive “I’ve reattached the document”. They won’t notice or care, damn it.

  • The ABC fact check of Pete Evans is pretty direct. http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-06-21/pete-evans-diet-doco-magic-pill-health-claims-evaluated/9891470

    Photo of Pete Evans with the caption dangerous horseshit

  • Is it because browsers are increasingly blocking the script by default?