Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • 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.