Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • The Share on Mastodon WordPress plugin now supports content warnings.

    Very nice.

  • Good lord, I’ve found a decent photo of me while giving a talk. My mouth doesn’t look like a dog’s bum, my eyes are open and my arms are in a normal position.

  • Work scam email of the week: “Dear git-commit-by, I came across your resume on LinkedIn and was…”

  • The local pub is doing a beef cheek special. The bad news is that I only discovered this after we had bought tonight’s dinner.

  • Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. […] The more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.

    Jono Alderson – JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

  • No, Peter, you’re never a wet nerd.

    Come on, people, it’s not a big ask.

  • I’m at my wet nerdiest when it comes to variant Sudoku (once you go variant you won’t go back). I got in to it doing the daily Genuinely Approachable Sudokus (GAS), which for many years where hiding out in a Discord for the most part.

    But now GAS’s primary home is the open-web and I couldn’t be happier.

  • In a throwback to my youth, I’m making curried sausages for dinner tonight. This is either going to be very good or very bad.

  • The 2025 award for making legitimate services, notifications and everything else look as scammy as hell goes to… iwantmyname dot com.

    Spokesperson: plaese see our typo ridding statment at iwmy dot third party tracking domain dot com

    [BTW: I’m not clicking any links in case they are scams but I think they are legit]

  • The Tony Awards are taking their sweet time putting up the official footage of the Hamilton reunion. They’re going to lose so many viewers to fan-cams.