Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • America, I’m watching you.

  • Lunch from a bottle today. I’m apprehensive.

    A drink labelled "a complete meal"

  • 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”

    An orange cocktail drink

  • 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.

    A bottle of Château d'Yquem dessert wine.

  • 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.

    A window with the sticker "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/

  • The @afl culture is such they couldn’t get clubs buy in on a pride round, just one game. No wonder their players don’t feel safe coming out.

  • tfw @bankaust sends an email with a link to their advice not to click off domain links in email using an off domain link tracking service.

  • Photocopy operator, IT support, webmaster, web developer, front-end engineer, WordPress Engineer.

  • Out with the family, showing off the new hood.

  • You’ve Got Mail! is on, I bet that hasn’t aged at all.

  • Testing WordPress 4.6 for an edge case.

  • “Pandora is dumb, it’s only got like twelve songs. I’m going to listen to Boys and Girls.”

  • OH: Can we just ban badly designed fly out menus because they’re a shit to use on tablets?

  • View of what?

    No windows, room with a view

  • RT @wikileaks: tfw @snowden is schooling you for doxxing $5 donors to a campaign.

  • /giphy but for stock photography

  • Hey, wild idea, let’s hate-watch #RNCinCLE.

  • Lunch.

  • Nature always wins

  • ICYMI: My personal brand is using buffer to link to this post three times a day for the next seven years. https://peterwilson.cc/~/3646/

  • Note to self: you have new home. Do not go to old home.

  • My WordCamp Europe talk on perf is now online. Quick, watch it now!