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.
America, I’m watching you.
Lunch from a bottle today. I’m apprehensive.
Look, I’m gonna need more than 20 seconds before I can watch episode four.
I’m sometimes a little shy expressing my view, I ought to change that.
Held a kid’s Halloween party yesterday. Parents, how long before you lot give up on clean walls? Does it take longer than bathroom privacy?
Impulse purchased a dozen bottles of Soylent at @japh‘s prompting. This will be interesting.
When you spend an hour debugging a function because you’ve made a typo in your unit tests. Cowboying has its advantages.
“Sam, make me something summary”
We’re breaking the web.
https://twitter.com/patmeenan/status/787012026539335680
When did only 40 or 50 emails coming in overnight become a good start to the day?
I have complicated feelings on the plebiscite. My fear is 3yrs of comments like Abetz’s yesterday. Rock meet hard place meet spineless PM.
Trump is giving ‘I have never been a quitter’ speeches before the election.
This is happening.
My inner troll is slightly tempted to walk around Footscray popping blue balloons.
“He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards”
Is it sad the thing I am most looking forward to this weekend is messing with the WordPress permissions system? Yes.
Doing the airport walk of desperation looking for power. My bad, this-morning I ignored @miss_jwo‘s advice: always be charing.
I’d love more companies to offer grants for speakers’ travel, accom & expenses at key WordCamps to increase the diversity of line ups.
When embedding scrollable content (maps, etc) on a touch device please use max-width: calc( 100% – 80px )
Anti graffiti film applied.
The saddest CSS comment: /* Important because JavaScript adds styles inline. */
It could be worse, the JS could be inline too.
Dev rel friends working for competitors is hard. @developersteve & @developerjack would you be above a _good_ swag-off?
Recently moved my site to a new provider and forgot to set up my Twitter app. So that’s fixed.
Some days my job is essentially reading the phrase “Hang tight, the log cannot be shown until the build has started” over & over.
“I only hire the rich & privileged” never goes down as well as “I only hire people with side projects”.
One day I really, really, really will go back and read all those links I’ve ⭐️ed. Like, really.
Testing custom roles. I have roughly 100 browsers open, each with both a standard & incognito window. I’m confused. My computer is melting.
Yesterday I mentioned the time saved by system fonts in WP would increase productivity, here’s the data via WebPageTest. I used the Dallas instance to run the tests, so results will vary outside of North America. (more…)
WordPress 4.6 launched 6 hours ago with native fonts saving ½-2 seconds for each admin page load. That’s days of productivity gains already.
Looking at code git blame says I wrote on February 3. I need a bleach shower.
It’s a complicated form of disappointment when you fail to break code you don’t actually want to be broken.
From the dozens of talks at #wceu, we’ve shared the ones we ⭐️ed at @humanmadeltd: https://hmn.md/2016/08/09/wceu-2016-talks-recommended-by-the-humans/