Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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

  • At the Lion King for the final stop on my broadway adventure.

    The Lion King playbill cover with the stage in the backgroun

  • Tonight’s viewing: Chicago.

    Chicago Playbill cover with the stage in the background

  • In New York, had to visit pride head office

    🏳️‍🌈✊

    Me standing out the front of The Stonewall Inn

  • I have a bigger problem with gutless copy writing/editorial than the cartoon.

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    Hamilton the Musical stage
    Back in the Richard Rodgers theatre for Hamilton.

  • Hamilton by my side (& @miss_jwo).

    Selfie with my friend Jenny in front of the Hamilton monument in Jersey

  • Everything is legal in New Jersey

    plaque commemorating the Hamilton/Burr duel.
    Plague carved in to a rock: upon this stone reset the patriot soldier, statesman and jurist Alexander Hamilton after the duel with Aaron Burr.

  • Just finished seeing my third Evan, Noah Galvin is damn good.

  • Last night’s show review: 1645 wasted seats.

  • I like you, L train.

    Train signage altered to read no smoking, no litter, no nazis

  • Three layers of dessert. For one.

  • Tradition dictates there be too much food – according to tv specials, anyway – got it covered.

    An ample supply of food with lamb cutlets and six sides

  • Having a traditional “home style” thanksgiving dinner in the heart of Manhattan tonight.

  • Two Evans down. Aiming for a third on the weekend if I can get last minute tickets. It’s not often I’m in New York.

  • Thank you @DearEvanHansen, that was something special. I’m a mess but it was well worth the trip.

  • I’m not paranoid about forgetting the tickets to the show today. It just happens that putting them on a chair blocking the door is the most convenient place to put them. Not even a little paranoid.

  • After weeks of hearing hateful comments from the No campaign I’ve decided to keep the pride flag in my name for a while.

    Fuck ‘em, I am proud of who I am & I refuse to let the ACL & co affect the meaning of this symbol.

    The pride flag

  • Passport, boarding pass, Sunday’s @DearEvanHansen ticket, and 10,000 miles of air travel.

    Let’s start this Broadway adventure. #TodayWillBeALongDay

    Passport, airline tickets and theatre tickets

  • If I never hear Macklemore again it will be too soon. Surely that will disappear from high roatation now. I guess that’s a positive.

  • The good news story: a yes vote that will lead to bunch of discriminatory practices being written into law.

    I’ll watch the result because maybe once this is over I’ll see the pride flag as more than symbol of this hateful plebiscite again.

  • Four days before holidays, a workmate tells me I am redundant and may as well go early. I will take care not to let the door hit me on the way out.

  • Reading this thread, it seems the outcome of this stupid SSM survey is a seperate definition of marriage & enshrining discrimination in the act, including making it easier for schools to expel gay kids.

    https://twitter.com/lanesainty/status/929826934812393472

  • Evangelical religious group and evangelical atheists are trying to yell over each other on a corner.

    Please just let me through. I just want to buy a carrot. Let me buy my carrot.