Peter Wilson

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  • Felt damn lucky to have made good friends through work and open source contributions this week. Thanks folks.

  • Thanks for having me at LoopConf.

    My slides and the LoopConf video of the talk are below or you can you can read Human Made’s white paper on working with Fairfax Media.

  • This is just silly.

    Screen shot of weather app showing Salt Lake CIty's top temperature of -5 degrees celsius

  • The team I’m on at work has been working on interesting things with our client for the last few months.

    https://twitter.com/humanmadeltd/status/965972476906934272

  • I accepted the T&C and signed up for marketing from Airport partners.

    A wifi interstitial requiring an email address. The email field completed for ceo@melbourneairport.com.au

  • MEL ✈️LAX ✈️ SLC

  • @LoopConf slide preview

  • I’m really looking forward to the next couple of weeks, I’m equally excited by LoopConf next week & by seeing Taylor Trensch in Dear Evan Hansen with few friends the following week.

  • Commit message:

    Once `display: contents` is supported, this can be added to the `

    ` element and CSS Grid can be restored. It will be a great day.

  • “There’s a capital P dang it on your slides but I can’t work out if it’s a typo or you’re trolling.”

    Unless I mention JetPack, it’s a typo.

  • Last week I finished a 16 month run working with a client on an enterprise CMS project—a complicated day emotionally—and the main lesson I learnt was simple: code review is productivity.

    It’s sometimes easy to forget.

  • So NOW we’re keeping politics out of the bedroom. I see, fine. Just glad to know my relationship falls on the wrong side of the line still.

  • Using @DaveedDiggs and @theofficialclee resplendent in their purple suits to illustrate API endpoint versions.

    I know, I know, that old chestnut! I couldn’t resist the cliche.

  • Just hit an article i wanted to read: the continue reading link was unclickable behind a fixed position ad. 5 stars, would measure engagement again.

  • Can someone endorse me for getting a coffee while waiting for downloads/builds/installs on LinkedIn?

  • “I’m sorry, we sold our last locked ex-government filing cabinet this-morning to someone muttering something about fucking journalists at the fucking ABC”

  • Hot headed arguments about who’s being hot headed are my new favourite thing.

  • The first @theWebMeetup for the year is developer focused, come along to see @philnash introduce service workers and I’ll be talking about CMSes at scale.

    https://www.meetup.com/the-web/events/247201690/

  • The downside of being in Melbourne: it’s quite some way for broadway adventures. The upside: listening @Lin_Manuel‘s #hamildrop well before New Yorkers ?

    Cover of Wrote My Way Out (Remix)

  • Today I updated WordPress’s browser test for emoji support & I’ve been apprehensive since. A fairy ?‍♂️ (which replaced a rainbow flag ?️‍?) was replaced with something I don’t associate with being LGBT and it bothers me.

    Emotions are weird ??‍♂️

  • I am ~un~reasonably excited by this change! ❤️ calc()
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/5e7c6952c431e507a56c7fbd9484571ff81ea4e3

  • Apart from infants, it’s very hard to find ungendered silhouette of a person. Trying to work out if that’s actually the case & on the providers or on me for seeing male by default.

  • A high number of @HamiltonMusical NYC tix went back on sale on @Ticketmaster‘s premium service during the verified fan period. TM want to *look* like they’re stopping scalping, if they wanted to *stop* it they’d block verified fan tickets from resale on their own service.

  • The project I am on at work uses a lot of tags. My local data only needs to be “close enough” so I realised I can do things like this. Bye, Julian, bye-bye

    if ( 'Julian Assange' === $term['name'] ) {
	replace_julian_assange( $term['term_id'] );
}

  • I was lucky enough to see @JMunozActor play Hamilton twice and would love to see him out this Sunday but, alas, NYC is quite some way to travel. Break a leg.

  • 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.