Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Are profits from Apple’s pride watchband going to a civil rights group?

  • Right, kids, I’ve had it.

    None of you are going home until you tell me who wrote the JIRA markdown interpreter. And who reviewed it.

  • Emoji 5 has fairies of all genders.


    🧚‍♀️✨So does WordPress✨🧚‍♂️


    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-loader.js?rev=40850&marks=81-87#L8

  • ✨npm was one of the first sites I worked on at HM, coincidence or contractual obligation? ?

    https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/868299337503092736

  • Maybe I’m an old silly but surely the time spent lobbying for a tennis court to be renamed would better spent focused on gay marriage.

  • Love me some postcode pride, 3065 edition.

    Street art saying Fitzroy 3065

  • Looking forward to speaking at WordCamp Brisbane in July, get your tix or apply to speak now.

    https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/news/announcing-our-first-speakers/

  • It’s opening night, 2019, Paul Capsis enters stage left & sings his opening line: Alexander Hamilton. My name is Alexander Hamilton.

  • Trying to do some work and this got placed on my laptop. I have no choice but to eat it I guess.

    A very rich chocolate dessert sitting on a plate atop a laptop

  • Three and half years later, there is still no beating this as the greatest “just use WordPress” post.

  • Maybe I’m a fool, but I love foggy mornings like this.

    A foggy park

  • Google’s refusal to recognise the United Nations is very concerning.

  • One of many CSS tricks with calc:

    
.side {
    width: 33%;
    width: calc( 249px + 1px );
}
.main {
    width: 67%; 
    width: calc( 100% - 250px );
 }

  • Great to see #WCEU will promote more than just bar nights as side events in the lead up to WordCamp Europe

  • Here are my slides from Yow! West 2017, Performance: The path to HTTP/2 is Full of Potholes.

  • ? I’m a web professional, you can trust me with your expensive website. Oops. #youwest

    https://twitter.com/web_goddess/status/859634427764363264

  • Every time I think something is a joke about dude bro tech culture, it’s always dude bro tech culture.

     

  • I mean what kind of monster plays the ukulele in an airport lounge?!

  • Y’all know the mid-word uppercase letters in WordPress, WordCamp, WooCommerce and JetPack don’t actually matter, right.

  • 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