Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

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    Anyway, it’s good to have bigredtin.com back online, a (very out of date) blog @sealfur and I wrote a few years ago.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

  • Is there an upper limit to the number of times you can panic about lost work before realising you’ve checked out the wrong branch?

  • Cowboy merged a PR to my site yesterday to dump lower quality posts (social media styled notes) onto a separate domain. I don’t know if @jdevalk would love it or hate it, but I know his view would be firmly held.

  • According to a Major News Source, the NBN’s congestion problems make it inadequate for HD streaming. Pull me up a chair.

  • Hands up if you’re a slightly disappointed Australian waking up to discover all the Tony Awards performances are geo-blocked. ?

  • Glad I took a chance on The Band’s Visit for my broadway adventure last year, it’s a great show and it’s nice to see it taking so many gongs at the Tony’s.

  • If you’re wondering, github.com/hottakes is available.

  • A question on @ShopTalkShow mentioned remote work as an aside. Something I like in the WordPress space is a lot of big shops are remote. Off the top of my head: Automattic, 10up, Alley Interactive, XWP, Inpsyde, Reaktiv Studios & Human Made (my work). I’m sure there are more.

  • Y’all know Rosanne’s production company will probably still get paid out. Her staff won’t so, depending on the deal, getting axed could be more profitable to Rosanne personally.

  • Barnaby Joyce complaining about his lose of privacy on the same day OIAC decides it’s cool for a minister to dox their critics is priceless.

  • GDPR has been a real boon for INALB

  • ❤️ calc, it makes everything so easy:

    .thing {
  background-color: #000;

  $maxWidth: 74rem;

  @media ( min-width: $maxWidth ) {
    // This is `max-width: $maxWidth` with a full width background.
    padding-left: calc( 50vw - #{$maxWidth/2} ); // ( (100vw - $maxWidth) / 2 )
    padding-right: calc( 50vw - #{$maxWidth/2} ); // ( (100vw - $maxWidth) / 2 )
  }
}

  • We had some nerd fun last week looking back at how long ago each of us started using WordPress.

    Milk Little won with 15 years, 4 months ?

     

  • Maths says urinals on planes could reduce queue times, it says nothing about air turbulance causing little yellow rivers in the isles.

  • Enhancement: Update in-joke.

    Following [43309] and [42343] #blamenacin can be hard deprecated in favour of #blamepento.

  • 45 is the new 35

  • Flights to London booked. With points ?

  • I’m seeing @HamiltonWestEnd with a friend with access needs. I’m really impressed with how helpful their & the @victoriapalace’s access team have been. They are not box ticking, they’ve exceeded my expectations. (I’m also impressed with their anti-scalping efforts.)

  • Baking news, more at 11

  • The popups we’d like: Hey, we’ve added 2FA! You should enable it.

    The popups we get: Hey, you just moved your mouse to read the content. (ping ping, screen shake) Please join our mailing list enable notifications like us on facebook

  • Sarah Lancashire could do a show about yard brooms and I’d watch it. Little doubt the last episode would leave me disheartened about human nature.

  • Podcasters: Hi, how are you, special shout out to the big networks. Please, please, please provide transcripts. As a sweet side-benefit you’ll be about to use This American Life’s shortcut free to make sharing clips easy for your listeners.

  • I’ve written about heavily modifying the WordPress edit screen for a client on the Human Made blog

  • Sweet of @Mike_Faist to stop breaking @jltsayswhat‘s heart eight times a week as his gift for Mothers’ Day.

  • I’m Going Home is twice the song of Sweet Transvestite and Time Warp put together.

    Don’t @ me.

  • Wild idea: as well as avoid words like simple and just in docs, how about we stop shit-canning development practices that work for other people too.