Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • In work’s slack, @tareiking asked for musical soundtrack recommendations. Half an essay later, I think he’s learnt his lesson.

  • This data visualization by @sxywu of every line, every character interaction, every repeated phrase and everything else in Hamilton is simply amazing. (I know I am late to the party).

  • I really can’t tell Brands, Personal Brands™️ or spammers from legitimate human Twitter accounts these days. The end result is I rarely follow new accounts.

  • Just walked in on someone changing from running gear to work clothes in the toilets (no change room at the office). How do you tell someone they ought to do the nude bit in a cubical rather than the hallway doorway?

  • As more browsers include ad and tracking blockers, Google Analytics is becoming less useful. I guess it’s time to go back to self hosted log file analysis which comes with it’s own problems.

  • I might be overthinking it but I’m trying to decide the correct emoji order for a shave. I think it’s ?? as the latter is the modifier, similar to gender modifiers ?‍♀️♂

  • @jensimmons has tip after tip after tip while discussing CSS layout on the Big Web Show. It’s very much worth a listen (and follow if you’re not already).

  • I never want to hear accessibility is too hard again, games are blind accessible. Games!

  • At a recent project’s peak, I was code reviewing full time for around 15 people. I sure did a lot of “LGTM, Approve” code reviews and no one seemed to mind. Why? I was respectful with change requests, happy to rubber duck & got to know the team. LGTM is fine. Respect is the key.

  • The descriptor “the bone has been removed and replaced with pancetta” needs to be used more often.

  • Not sure if anyone’s said this before but CSS Grid is p good.

  • Something I love about this original Hamilton performance is seeing LMM looking around after the first verse, realise the room is into it and visibly relax. It’s a really sweet, human moment.

  • Listening to a Twenty Thousand Hertz episode on noise pollution. If you’re a remote worker, it turns out it’s worth sending the boss noise canceling headphones before jumping on Zoom to ask for a pay rise.

  • Oh wow, it feels weird to nest @ rules in vanilla CSS, ie: @suports ( cool-new-feature ) { @media ( wide-enough ) { /* ... */ } } .

  • Week one of learning a new codebase.

    A young boy sticks a knife in an electrical socket

  • After spending two hours on the phone, I may know WHO will be billing me for American health care. I don’t know how much, an account number, when I can expect a bill, if they’ll call me back, whether they know where to send it or if they can send it by email. That would be easy.

  • Does iOS Firefox add an icon to the home screen every time I refresh each site or only the first time?

  • I think the best way to wait for a DNS change to propagate is with a glass of wine in hand. ?

  • Sometimes I am a little #386.

  • Good morning!

    A computer dialog box showing "macOS installer could not be completed

  • Pining for container queries again.

  • One of the side effects of working on the Fairfax CMS’s edit screen for almost 18 months is I can’t help but think of data entry as I read the news. For some reason, a lot of images on the dev site were from Hamilton the Musical. I still see this too.

  • I’ve been sitting on a redesign forever & now tempted to get the functionality down and fukkit do it live for the theme.

  • Finally finished Playdead’s Inside on iOS and now I’m tempted to buy a console. The wise thing to do would be to play some similar games first.

  • I’m really bored shitless of Book of Morman think pieces marveling how kind it is to religion but failing to mention the jokes punch down; the POC are gullible & one dimensional; and the hurrah moment is white guys saving the day for the silly Africans.

  • From afar it’s easy to find the US’s gun obsession kind of bizarre & definitely foreign… until I remember my nieces are doing active shooter drills while their representatives effectively fine Delta for discontinuing their NRA discount. #MarchForOurLives

  • I’ve been thinking a lot about Found/Tonight and how perfect The Story of Tonight and You Will Be Found are for @AMarch4OurLives. My US friends and the students leading it should be proud of their influence. I wish they didn’t need to be.

  • This month’s Hamildrop is also a Hansendrop and how am I meant to sleep now?! (Europe & America, just you wait) https://youtu.be/4s9Td2ZAyT8

  • Right, Joe, I’ve always been right.

  • @AirbnbHelp asks: after finding out bedroom blinds are not required & neither is listing their presence or absence, would I recommend their service?

    Honestly, I’d have to say I’d recommend against it.

  • Turns out my irrational fear I’d get used to hotel swipe cards and lock myself out within hours of getting home was rational after all. Genius.

  • There’s a lot of discussion about politics in conference talks following this post. The Stonewall Inn photo in my latest slide deck wasn’t an accident, it was a reaction to Australia’s hateful same-sex marriage survey.

    Me standing out the front of The Stonewall Inn

  • OH: he was here yesterday (true story), he’s an excellent table.

    See, I told you I’m a fucking delight.

  • Looking forward to this one, it’s not often you get to see Uma Thurman in her broadway debut.

    Playbill cover for The Parisian Woman featuring Uma Thurman.

  • Buffer’s state of remote work. https://open.buffer.com/state-remote-work-2018/

    My status:

    • environment: office (paid by @humanmadeltd)
    • vacation: usually 32 days with public/bank holidays (min 28 is policy)
    • nomad: <5%
    • hours: 9-10hr M-Th, bugger off early Fri
    • hope to be remote til retirement

  • Building diverse teams requires hiring devs without open-source contributions. Underrepresented groups—parents and other carers—simply may not have the time even if they have the inclination.

    https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/969814787428302850