Archives: Notes

Current status: remembering how to set up for Zoom dinner party with @thewebprincess

Why do people put white-arse chicken in the oven when Paprika exists for the exceedingly lazy? I’m thinking of making a simple honey and mustard marinade while at lunch but probably won’t because I’m… You can see where this is going.

For reasons, I just noticed that this URL for an 2007 article in The Age still works. The URL scheme has completely changed but it still redirects because they’ve embraced the attitude good URL never die. It’s dandy. http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/goodbye-information-superhighway/2007/08/02/1185648044623.html

The current URL scheme is much shorter and nowhere near as weird.

I wrote a little helper for WordPress sites using the Public Post Preview plugin to help ensure both @yoast and @aioseopack return noindex robots meta tags. The simplest method to install is putting it in the mu-plugins folder. https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/15ac55f8df40b8dde1a65128914b3a42

After they leave politics, a number of Republican senators will do tell all interviews saying their biggest regret is not voting to impeach Trump. Do not forgive them.

The Blues Brothers as a comfort movie tonight. I can’t eat four fried chickens so having American style burgers instead, Blue Lou did not make them.

I can’t help but wonder if the non-tennis quarantine hotels were more crowded due to the Australian Open. Has that come up in Daily Dan series 2?

Do you know who’s a delight to work with? The WordPress.org plugin review team, that’s who. Super helpful with both code and readme review.

❤️ a good code review, they’re 🌻

It’s very hot in my office today and I am wearing a tank top. It looks very, very bad. It’s so bad I’m ignoring my personal brand: posting humiliating photos on the internet.

A web site becomes a web app when it makes use of history.pushState() but breaks the browser’s back button intermittently and completely breaks the forward button and keyboard shortcuts.