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Wait staff smilingly wryly as I order second breakfast. Related: I’ve been described as a human bin recently.

Spending the next week testing out remote working’s “work from anywhere” claim.

FYI Australia is a long way from anywhere.

The WordPress Melbourne meetup is back for another year tomorrow, join us.

https://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Melbourne/events/237413353/

Have found I’m doing more these days to control when I catch up on the news. There’s too much bad shit happening to have a constant stream.

I usually remember to remove even the commented out var_dumps before committing. I’m a fucking professional.

You think you know someone and then discover they use a light theme for their text editor.

Read an article claiming some poor saps get obsessed by a musical after leaving the room where it happens.

Ooooh, that’s right, console.log( object ) is a reference. Yeah.

Me. Every. Damn. Time.

Setting up twitter to be post only for a bit. I like that my indieweb set up makes this easy to do.

Can you get a Dr’s certificate ’cause someone played Mad World at work so is there even any point pretending you’re not an imposter anyway?

All it takes to bring down a server is an errant equals sign and time going backward. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/

Getting hungry but need to wait until the album I’m listening to finishes. Philip’s dead but Burr’s yet to lose his bid for President.

Funny how it’s always privileged guys in high paying jobs writing posts like this ? https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/work-life-balance-is-bullshit-f51bf8b3767

TV producers: replacing an all white cast with POC for a single Ep is not the same as Hamilton’s casting decisions. http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/04/always-sunny-philadelphia-season-12-premiere-interview/?sf49854558=1

I see the lies of omission from some outlets implying this is new. That’s just fucked up & it’s on you if Centrelink stop making referrals.

Centrelink have shat the bed but referring people threatening self harm to life line is a good thing & to be encouraged.

Call me old fashioned but I think condemning Centrelink for referring people to suicide prevention services is fucked up.

There is a group attempting to archive the internet archive & put it online.

I see a problem.

My 2017 will be six years after @PsychicKeyboard started.

wp-cli development is moving to WordPress.org

Supporting the Future of wp-cli

Making a heroic attempt to turn around a code review while listening to Bonnie Tyler.

I recently found out Washington University is not in Washington State or DC. United States of Deception more like it.

Back at Docklands Library for the first time in six months today. Damn this is a good view.

Why is your handle so anonymous?
“I’m a women & keep it genderless so my code is taken seriously.”
Yes, that makes sense, I wish it didn’t.

I don’t mean to alarm you but sometimes I see someone has written iphone and just move on with my life.

I don’t mean to alarm you but sometimes I see someone has written Javascript and just move on with my life.

I don’t mean to alarm you but sometimes I see someone has written WordPress and just move on with my life.

As WordPress 4.7 hits the streets, I am in awe of @helenhousandi for leading the release and her deputies @jeffpaul & @aaronjorbin.

My last full day in the US was spent at the WordPress contributor day working on core.

The most practical outcome of this was some final debugging (I hope) of the Twenty Seventeen header. David has put in a tonne of work on this theme, he deserves be proud of it.

I’m writing this up in the flight lounge waiting to board the first leg of my flight home. The last few days have been ver busy catching up with people, meeting new people and general socialising.

I’m both sad to be leaving but looking forward to getting back home.

The one and only @thewebprincess has joined us at @humanmadeltd. Woot. https://hmn.md/2016/12/05/dee-teal-has-joined-human-made/

The second day of WCUS yesterday and I managed to see two talks. This brings the total of talks to two ;)

I started the day in Joost de Valk’s talk about SEO and finished with Matt‘s annual State of the Word, Brian has written up a summary on Post Status.

I spent a small chunk of the day figuring out a bug in the Twenty Seventeen video header with a few others. It looks like we’ll be using feature queries. If this gets in, it will be the first use in a default theme which is a little exciting.

First day of WordCamp US yesterday, the conference is the reason for this trip.

These things are usually about the hallway track so I made the effort to do that for the day.

For lunch I went to Cafe Lift with a small group to have the French Toast. Aaron sold this as the best meal in Philly’s best cafe.

After the burger incident I was sceptical but it was damn good.

For dinner I went to a restaurant with some HM and various WordPress people.

It was another day spent with people I know online and I loved it.

Travel day yesterday, I caught the train from NYC to Philly. Whoever told me not to fly, good work that person.

One of the reasons I love this industry is the willingness for people to share their techniques. I spent the trip down with Stuart from XWP talking review processes and coding.

Similar conversations at the Post Status Publish after party. I also got the chance to meet others on the core team I’ve worked with an not met.

Dinner was with a bunch of HM work mates, in most cases catching up for the first time since WordCamp Europe.

Y’all should know the electoral college is not even close to the beginning of the problems with how y’all run your elections.

Another ideal day for indoor activities yesterday. I took another walk through Central Park.

The evening’s entertainment was Hamilton the Musical. I was painfully excited.

I knew Broadway theatres were small but the Rogers Theatre is TINY.

The show’s set is really bare, a turntable is the fanciest element. I loved this.

When transferring to Broadway it would be easy to use all the tricks but the producers have let the songs speak for themselves. These songs are good enough to leave alone.

I’ve not seen another musical that’s music from start to finish and I’m so glad I did.

 

Another late start yesterday because I’m on holiday and can. It was quite late the night before getting back from Downtown, but – really- I just like a good sleep in.

It was a miserable yesterday: rain and a lot of it. Several people have told me to go to MoMA so it seemed an opportune time.

As part of the exhibit celebrating the UNHCR they have a wire map of the world with sound scape & barbs embedded. I loved it.

Dinner was with some guys from rtCamp and WPML at a Mexican restaurant in Hells Kitchen.

Tonight. I. See. Hamilton.

Lunch at MOMA

A late start yesterday as I was a little tired. Walking hundreds of blocks each day will do that.

I walked through Central Park first thing, going where the spirit took me. I spent a couple of hours looking around.

I left the park in what looked to be a nice part of town and soon found I was walking along Madison Avenue. That explains the nice.

After a late lunch I went to the 9/11 Museum. It’s beautifully curated.

Dinner was at the Mineta Taven bar. I chatted to the guy sitting next to me, as you do on holiday.

I love days spent with people I usually know online.

The day began in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Unfortunately I missed the ferry so had to Uber from Manhattan.

I meet with Rob and Petya from HM for breakfast at 5 Leaves. We all had eggs & shared some pancakes.

Palo then joined us and we spent a few hours walking around Greenpoint.

For dinner we joined up with Joe & Aaron for a burger at Ruby’s Cafe. For Aaron’s  much hyped Aussie burger.

It had its flaws (it’s a sandwich!!!). The best is a stretch but a pretty damn good Aussie burger, as promised.

Yesterday was my first full day in New York City. Arriving late Friday, exhausted,  falling into bed barely counts.

My friend @sealfur was in town for a one day cross over so we hung out for the day.

We started with Bone Marrow and the Black Label Burger at Minetta Tavern. I never want to eat again, it’s amazing. I will return.

After lunch we caught the ferry to Staten Island as an excuse to see the Lady.

I then walked back to my hotel near Times Square, leaving Josh to pack. Thanks for getting me started in NYC,  JK.

I used to say coolio ironically. Now, it seems, I just say coolio.

Decided to see Hamilton while in New York. I’m not travelling all that way just to eat bagels.

The scalpers are not fucking around with tickets to Hamilton in NY. But Hamilton. But NY.

My friend @thewebprincess has written a @heropress on how WordPress didn’t change her life. https://heropress.com/essays/actually-wordpress-didnt-change-life/

I love that WordPress 4.7 will include PDF previews, some great work by the media team. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/15/enhanced-pdf-support-4-7/

My office mates have given me a keyboard cover because I bash the keyboard to loudly. It’s not dvorak.

This is how I see code snippit sites
JS Bin: debugging, problem solving
CodePen: showponying (in a good way)
JSFiddle: something in between

Using my second monitor to induce anxiety. A split screen showing the @abcnews and @538politics live blogs.