Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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'] );
}

  • I was lucky enough to see @JMunozActor play Hamilton twice and would love to see him out this Sunday but, alas, NYC is quite some way to travel. Break a leg.

  • 1) Google problem
    2) Highest result is from Stack Overflow
    3) Highest voted answer is a friendly “dumb question, idiot, google it”
    4) Click through to second highest Google result, also from SO
    5) Closed as duplicate.

  • Just got into an argument about who’s the best Schuyler sister while waiting for the train. Oh dear. #AndPeggy

  • Hi my name is Peter and my hobby is starting fights about open-sources licenses while I wait for VMs to provision for what feels like the hundred and fiftieth time today.

    So, the BSD+ Patents license: a great way to contribute to OS, or the greatest?

  • Hi my name is Peter and my hobby is starting fights about open-sources licenses while I wait for VMs to provision for what feels like the hundred and fiftieth time today.

    So, the GPL: a great license or the greatest?

  • Starting to organise some meetup visits to present my new talk “Click bait title: clearer and slightly more detailed sub-title” around Melbourne next month.

  • You: worrying about nuclear war
    Me: making rabbit puns on a pull request.

    It’s my contribution to the bugs fix.

  • (I’m choosing to ignore the merge conflict artefacts in the theme’s style.css)

  • Checking Salt Lake City tour dates for Hamilton the Musical. Ooh, I recognise the Fairy (Male) test in the HTML header. ?‍♂️

  • In general, though, Broadway ticket sales are broken. It doesn’t help that Ticketmaster is conflicted by selling on the secondary market and taking coin from scalpers. That’s a big player with little motivation to fix it.

  • This year I decided to lean in on the Broadway nerd thing. I’ve since learnt about scalping algorithms; ticket allocation juggling between broadway.com (approx 25% fees) & the primary reseller (much lower fees). Much better at getting list price & paying the artist.

  • This is happening web types, 8pm Wednesday Feb 28.

     

  • Breaking things.

    Screen shot of a page tittle that goes over several lines to test a heading layout

  • One of my highlights of 2017 is seeing thought leaders use the same techniques for both their woke signalling and for bullying and organising pile-ons of lower profile industry peers.

  • Block enterprise sites with WordPress

  • Get in touch if you’ve replaced WordPress’s wp-cron system with a proper cron system, especially if you’ve hacked core to do so. I wanna know what you did to make writing plugins easier.

  • Have vague plans to head back to NYC after @loopconf to see @dearevanhansen again, this time with my partner in tow. Hoping to put together a few web types to come with & see Taylor Trensch play the poor kid.

  • Hey, hey, hey it’s Friday so go and turn your work email off on your phone for the weekend. It’s the greatest.

  • The @loopconf schedule is out. I’ll be speaking about CMS replatforming & all the cool shit I’ve been working on with the HM and our client’s teams over the last year.

    https://loopconf.com/schedule

  • One of my favourite #wcus talks, @Ipstenu on tropes, tech and lesbians.

  • A true professional would be prouder of the bug fix than the Hamilton the Musical and Dear Evan Hansen references in the unit tests. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/42380

  • As I fight off seeing ?️‍? as a symbol of his hateful survey, Turnbull’s pride at passing SSM can fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.

  • My caffe latte order was misheard as caramel latte due to my accent and I have a question: why would you do this to coffee?

  • The moment you try to go against the way WordPress works you sign yourself up for a bit of a struggle — @joemcgill #wcus

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  • Holiday over, I turned work email back on. Oh my.

  • Twelve days, ten performances and I’m about to board a plane putting an end to my broadway adventure.

    I genuinely think @DearEvanHansen will be one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life.

    Dear Evan Hansen playbill in front of stage
    A collection of playbills for Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Wicked, Hamilton, The Lion King and Chicago
    Passport, airline and theatre tickets

  • An incomplete set of Playbills from my broadway adventure. It’s been a fun twelve days.

    A collection of playbills for Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Wicked, Hamilton, The Lion King and Chicago