Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • Applied for a US conference a month ago, relieved to have missed out less than a month into the Trump presidency. It saves cancelling.

  • 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.

    A beach view with tropical trees in the foreground

  • 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.