Peter Wilson

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Trying to do some work and this got placed on my laptop. I have no choice but to eat it I guess.

A very rich chocolate dessert sitting on a plate atop a laptop

Three and half years later, there is still no beating this as the greatest “just use WordPress” post.

Maybe I’m a fool, but I love foggy mornings like this.

A foggy park

Google’s refusal to recognise the United Nations is very concerning.

One of many CSS tricks with calc:


.side {
    width: 33%;
    width: calc( 249px + 1px );
}
.main {
    width: 67%; 
    width: calc( 100% - 250px );
 }

Great to see #WCEU will promote more than just bar nights as side events in the lead up to WordCamp Europe

Here are my slides from Yow! West 2017, Performance: The path to HTTP/2 is Full of Potholes.

? I’m a web professional, you can trust me with your expensive website. Oops. #youwest

https://twitter.com/web_goddess/status/859634427764363264

Every time I think something is a joke about dude bro tech culture, it’s always dude bro tech culture.

 

I mean what kind of monster plays the ukulele in an airport lounge?!

Y’all know the mid-word uppercase letters in WordPress, WordCamp, WooCommerce and JetPack don’t actually matter, right.

Rehearse my Yow! West talk or go out for coffee and cake?

Bought myself a mechanical keyboard for next time I’m co-working with @noeltock.

A mechanical keyboard sitting on a desk

Related, I am cranky right now and brand™ socmed proactive support® is unlikely to help.

But usually I’m a fucking delight.

I will be generous & assume Internode’s NBN isn’t a steaming wet turd, only the router they sold with it.

So what’s a good FTTB router?

Had a terrific time at #wcubud & seeing workmates this past week, a little sad to be heading home today.

Pleased to have played a small part in @raisonco getting his first WordPress props at the #wcubud contributor day.

#wcubud contrib day resources
http://make.wordpress.org/core
http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/good-first-bugs

Had some fun speaking at WordCamp Ubud yesterday, here are the slides and other resources.

Code snippets

Other resources

Latte art from the Hubud Kantin at #wcubud

Latte art of a monkey

I think I am becoming water-logged on this tropical island paradise. On the up-side, on a tropical island paradise.

It bothers me a security analyst pretending to be Taylor Swift does the best corrections during a developing story. Not a news outlet.

Four day weekend is long enough to do this.

It was a pleasure speaking at the Web Meetup on Tuesday, they’ve already posted the videos from the evening.

Casting values larger than PHP_INT_MAX really is fun. https://3v4l.org/5nWum

Having a tipple at @citywineshop thanks to @humanmadeltd (with help from our friend Sam the sommelier).

A decanted fancy bottle of wine
Three people sitting in a restaurant
A fancy bottle of wine

This was inevitable & is a reason to host your own comments. Ad free product could be discontinued at any time.

While polishing my Imposter Syndrome deck for @theWebMeetup Tuesday, I’m making Hamilton gifs. They’re related.

No, YOU realised you were mournfully signing “who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” aloud as you walked down the street.

Where are the best Pepsi reaction videos?

I’m heading to Perth next month to speak at Yow! West. Hope to see some of you there.

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.

https://twitter.com/pwcc/status/843226629908451329

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.

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