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Remember when you’d see a name trending on Twitter and ask yourself whether they’d died rather than what they said this time? It cost us some childhood heros on the way but I miss those days.

Remember, the inauguration isn’t until January. Until then the correct title is President Loser.

Don, you’re fired.

The independence of the @AusElectoralCom is pretty cool, hey. I am <highly likely> to recommend this product or service to my friends.

Doom-scrolling/election mode CSS enabled with Firefox user styles: https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/d559771f8c257879284a09d403a221a0

The Australian government has generic do not travel advice for every country in the world at the moment (even NZ). Yesterday (or certainly no earlier than October 7 according to the web archive) the USA’s alert was updated to include the election and inauguration dates. Pretty wild for a democracy.

I feel incredibly lucky to have friends dotted around the world. I can’t wait to be less anxious about their health and safety.

🐘 PHP 8 has a number of breaking changes and other considerations for updating your code to support it, the Yoast developer blog has this comprehensive guide to help do so. You’ll need to set aside a bit of time to read it.

The 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report

The sense of relief in Melbourne this-morning is palpable. On my morning walk I could see cafe staff were excited to have tables out again and strangers chatting about almost been back to normal. It’s lovely. 😊

The Kubrick inspired default theme for WordPress still runs in WP 5.5 on PHP 7.4! It throws a few deprecation warnings, both for WP and PHP, but you could still run it in production. Not bad for a 15ish year-old theme that hasn’t been the default for 10 years.