Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Rehearse my Yow! West talk or go out for coffee and cake?

  • Bought myself a mechanical keyboard for next time I’m co-working with @noeltock.

    A mechanical keyboard sitting on a desk

  • Related, I am cranky right now and brand™ socmed proactive support® is unlikely to help.

    But usually I’m a fucking delight.

  • I will be generous & assume Internode’s NBN isn’t a steaming wet turd, only the router they sold with it.

    So what’s a good FTTB router?

  • Had a terrific time at #wcubud & seeing workmates this past week, a little sad to be heading home today.

  • Pleased to have played a small part in @raisonco getting his first WordPress props at the #wcubud contributor day.

  • #wcubud contrib day resources
    http://make.wordpress.org/core
    http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop
    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/good-first-bugs

  • Had some fun speaking at WordCamp Ubud yesterday, here are the slides and other resources.

    Code snippets

    Other resources

  • Latte art from the Hubud Kantin at #wcubud

    Latte art of a monkey

  • I think I am becoming water-logged on this tropical island paradise. On the up-side, on a tropical island paradise.

  • It bothers me a security analyst pretending to be Taylor Swift does the best corrections during a developing story. Not a news outlet.

  • Four day weekend is long enough to do this.

  • It was a pleasure speaking at the Web Meetup on Tuesday, they’ve already posted the videos from the evening.

  • Casting values larger than PHP_INT_MAX really is fun. https://3v4l.org/5nWum

  • Having a tipple at @citywineshop thanks to @humanmadeltd (with help from our friend Sam the sommelier).

    A decanted fancy bottle of wine
    Three people sitting in a restaurant
    A fancy bottle of wine

  • This was inevitable & is a reason to host your own comments. Ad free product could be discontinued at any time.

  • While polishing my Imposter Syndrome deck for @theWebMeetup Tuesday, I’m making Hamilton gifs. They’re related.

  • No, YOU realised you were mournfully signing “who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” aloud as you walked down the street.

  • Where are the best Pepsi reaction videos?

  • I’m heading to Perth next month to speak at Yow! West. Hope to see some of you there.

  • It’s amazing how hours complaining affirmative action makes it _harder_ for white guys to get tech talks can turn you off someone.

  • Surprise wine

  • I’ll be chatting about Imposter Syndrome at the Web Meetup in two weeks. Sign up and I’ll see you on the 11th.

     

  • After AHCA failed & various injunctions I’m applying to @nejsconf & hoping potus is further undermined.

  • Sitting on the couch with the doors open & Mojo JuJu playing a set on the front lawn.

    Footscray is pretty cool.

    • In the 70s gay people could lose their livelihood if someone invaded their privacy and outed them.
    • The hanky code became a subversive part of gay (& kink) culture which allowed people to reveal themselves to people in the know without risking their livelihood. Different colours and pockets indicated preference.
    • These days it’s universally agreed that being straight or gay should not rightly affect someone’s livelihood.
    • Within the Drupal community, Larry Garfield has had to write about his preference for sub-dom relationships after others started outing him.
    • Even after he was repeatedly found not to have breached the community’s code of conduct he was forced out of the offical roles he had in the community.
    • I don’t think it’s anyone’s business what colour handkerchief people have, where they keep them but it seems Dries Buytaert and the Drupal leadership do.
    • Dries proudly claims these exclusionary practices are their values. By implication, invading people’s privacy and outing them do not fall outside these values.
    • Reading Larry’s and Dries’ posts, I can’t help but think there but for an accident of timing go I.

  • Today @tareiking answered a question by quoting lyrics from a musical. Not Hamilton but brainwashing is about baby steps.
    Yes. I’m gloating.

  • “Beethoven, he’s, like, some really famous classical music guy” – hilarious school kid on the 402.

  • Oh, that conference looks cool, I might put in a CFP.
    Dates: ✔️
    Where: ??
    Nah ?‍♂️

  • At HM we work with many excellent people, quite pleased to have Mike join the team.

     

  • Me getting mildly sweary at #WCAkl2017, as captured by @kristarella

    WordCamp Auckland: Imposter Syndrome

  • Even when I’m doing a code review over dinner I fucking love my job.

    A computer showing code at the back of a table with a pizza in front of it

  • Here are the slides from my WordCamp Auckland talk: I’m an imposter because…

  • Thanks everyone who added to the imposter syndrome discussion at #WCAkl2017

  • #wcakl2017 have won best conference spread for lunch.

  • Retiring my app.net widget for WordPress because ?

  • Was good to have a run through of my WordCamp Auckland talk at #wpmelb tonight.

    https://twitter.com/JoelEade/status/839392964354834432

  • Compared CSS Grid layouts to screw caps for the wine industry earlier. Trying to think of suitable comparisons for other industries.

  • Redeveloping my site & looking forward to using CSS Grid (with feature queries) now it’s in production browsers.

  • Is there a sweep on when President Trump will just crack completely and challenge Obama to a duel?

  • I’m getting impatient waiting for CSS container queries. It seems @beep is too & he knows a thing or two about RWD. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/on-container-queries/

  • Just found out why the comedy internet was losing its shit at the Herald-Sun today.

    brb, losing my shit.

  • Why is this commit failing? Oh, nothing is staged. Internet professional.

  • Friends attending my next talk, @stuartshields made me do it.

  • I have a talk to write so of course I’m tempted to procrastinate by doing tax returns.

  • What gets rolled back post Trump (be that 4 or 8 years) will be very important. Anti-women and -LGBTI laws will likely stay.

  • Code reviewing has become the favourite part of my job and having my code reviewed the favourite part of my dev process. Sociopath?

  • After a week in Thailand I’m a convert to the bathroom hose, it’s much cleaner. I work on the basis of when in Rome, do as the Romans.

  • Looking forward to a quick dash to NZ next month for WordCamp Auckland. You should come too. https://2017.auckland.wordcamp.org/

  • Apply! Web Directions really look after presenters both on the day and with workshops beforehand.