A great post from @Dries acknowledging open-source isn’t a meritocracy allowing anyone to open a pull-request but is instead for a privileged few groups.

The APAC team at Human Made are doing Wear it like it’s Wednesday today (reverse casual Friday). I don’t mind saying, I look amazing.

Recommended custom styles for news sites:

html::before {
  content: "It's all terrible and depressing." !important;
  display: block !important;
  position: fixed !important;
  top: 0 !important;
  left: 0 !important;
  right: 0 !important;
  bottom: 0 !important;
  height: auto !important;
  max-height: none !important;
  width: auto !important;
  max-width: none !important;
  z-index: 999999 !important;
  background: black !important;
  font-size: 50px !important;
  font-family: impact !important;
  color: white !important;
  text-align: center !important;
  padding-top: 50px !important;
}

Developer buddies: hands up if you hear a project is using Jira and say to yourself “oh goody”. Hello? Anyone? So just me then.

I still can’t figure out which markdown flavour to use on any one screen, though.

Listening to @sciencevs Alcohol. Don’t burst my bubble, Zukerman!

I listened to the first episode of the Women in WordPress podcast on this morning’s commute. Damn, it’s excellent.

Taking a radical approach to taking back control of my news intake.

Last year I accidentally took up smoking again and now I’m quitting again. I’d forgotten how persuasive Addict Brain can be but I’m about to hit the point where the primary motivation becomes avoiding the hard part again more than anything else.

Caption: it was a lot of hard work.

I can’t help that a lot of the hallway track happened in the pool.