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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.

This was a vague post about the White House, nine years and a day ago. Spoiler: I didn’t end up doing a Heights tune. The rest is literally history. pic.twitter.com/sSJW9ljMev

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 25, 2018

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.

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!

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.

So you’re telling me you’ve always been a CSS pedant?

— Joe McGill (@joemcgill) March 17, 2018

@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.

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.

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

@angelsbway is excellent; the cast, the staging, everything. It’s quite a disconnect as friends back home celebrate Mardi Gras to be watching a play set when it was a protest for health care.

No. It’s always no.

One of the most enjoyable parts of seeing popular shows is the audience comradary. It might be strangers helping take photos in front of signage or chatting to your neighbors; a random act of friendship will happen.

Life hack: visit the Richard Rodgers Theatre box office to ask “what have you got in the next few days?” It may turn out to be orchestra sides on the aisle.

Michael Luwoye is an excellent A. Ham and the woman next to me seeing the show with her grandson was delightful.

Video from my talk at LoopConf last week is up. I’ve added it alongside my slides and a link to the Human Made white paper at https://pwcc.cc/go/loop2018

Check out @pwcc's talk from #loopconf: A Case Study in CMS Replatforming: https://t.co/CIH84gtAgQ cc @humanmadeltd

— LoopConf (@LoopConf) March 1, 2018

Make no mistake, this isn’t the last time. When @DearEvanHansen makes it to Australia in 2020 or later, I’m taking the extended family along.

Nov 19 @BenSPLATT
Nov 22 @HeyMichaelLeeB
Nov 24 @Noahegalvin

Tonight it’s @taytrensch leading @DearEvanHansen’s remaining original cast. I’m more than a little excited. Thanks for the great theatre folks on stage and off.

Currently debating @Airbnb as to whether it’s reasonable to expect blinds in a bedroom. I’m arguing it is, for sleeping, they’re refusing to discuss further.

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Congratulations to my friends on the Fairfax CMS and wider dev team for the relaunch of the SMH. Nicely done folks.

“I won’t go nuts on show tickets for this trip”

LOG, DAY 1: refreshing two sites an hour before @HamiltonMusical’s matinee performance to see how far the resale prices come down.

Felt damn lucky to have made good friends through work and open source contributions this week. Thanks folks.

Thanks for having me at LoopConf.

My slides and the LoopConf video of the talk are below or you can you can read Human Made’s white paper on working with Fairfax Media.

This is just silly.

The team I’m on at work has been working on interesting things with our client for the last few months.

https://twitter.com/humanmadeltd/status/965972476906934272

I accepted the T&C and signed up for marketing from Airport partners.

MEL ✈️LAX ✈️ SLC

@LoopConf slide preview

I’m really looking forward to the next couple of weeks, I’m equally excited by LoopConf next week & by seeing Taylor Trensch in Dear Evan Hansen with few friends the following week.

Commit message:

Once `display: contents` is supported, this can be added to the `

` element and CSS Grid can be restored. It will be a great day.

“There’s a capital P dang it on your slides but I can’t work out if it’s a typo or you’re trolling.”

Unless I mention JetPack, it’s a typo.

Last week I finished a 16 month run working with a client on an enterprise CMS project—a complicated day emotionally—and the main lesson I learnt was simple: code review is productivity.

It’s sometimes easy to forget.

So NOW we’re keeping politics out of the bedroom. I see, fine. Just glad to know my relationship falls on the wrong side of the line still.