Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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

  • @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.

    Headline "Could Titanic still will 11 Oscars in 2018?"

  • 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

  • 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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    Street art featuring the word love repeated in various forms

  • 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.

    Screen shot of weather app showing Salt Lake CIty's top temperature of -5 degrees celsius

  • 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.

    A wifi interstitial requiring an email address. The email field completed for ceo@melbourneairport.com.au

  • 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.

  • Using @DaveedDiggs and @theofficialclee resplendent in their purple suits to illustrate API endpoint versions.

    I know, I know, that old chestnut! I couldn’t resist the cliche.

  • Just hit an article i wanted to read: the continue reading link was unclickable behind a fixed position ad. 5 stars, would measure engagement again.

  • Can someone endorse me for getting a coffee while waiting for downloads/builds/installs on LinkedIn?

  • “I’m sorry, we sold our last locked ex-government filing cabinet this-morning to someone muttering something about fucking journalists at the fucking ABC”

  • Hot headed arguments about who’s being hot headed are my new favourite thing.

  • The first @theWebMeetup for the year is developer focused, come along to see @philnash introduce service workers and I’ll be talking about CMSes at scale.

    https://www.meetup.com/the-web/events/247201690/

  • The downside of being in Melbourne: it’s quite some way for broadway adventures. The upside: listening @Lin_Manuel‘s #hamildrop well before New Yorkers ?

    Cover of Wrote My Way Out (Remix)

  • Today I updated WordPress’s browser test for emoji support & I’ve been apprehensive since. A fairy ?‍♂️ (which replaced a rainbow flag ?️‍?) was replaced with something I don’t associate with being LGBT and it bothers me.

    Emotions are weird ??‍♂️

  • I am ~un~reasonably excited by this change! ❤️ calc()
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/5e7c6952c431e507a56c7fbd9484571ff81ea4e3

  • Apart from infants, it’s very hard to find ungendered silhouette of a person. Trying to work out if that’s actually the case & on the providers or on me for seeing male by default.

  • A high number of @HamiltonMusical NYC tix went back on sale on @Ticketmaster‘s premium service during the verified fan period. TM want to *look* like they’re stopping scalping, if they wanted to *stop* it they’d block verified fan tickets from resale on their own service.

  • The project I am on at work uses a lot of tags. My local data only needs to be “close enough” so I realised I can do things like this. Bye, Julian, bye-bye

    if ( 'Julian Assange' === $term['name'] ) {
	replace_julian_assange( $term['term_id'] );
}