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

Unfortunately, ad free @disqus now costs money. I don't like free products suddenly costing, but I like ads even less! Paid the fee. pic.twitter.com/2fYNdnv7sW

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 7, 2017

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.

Oh, that conference looks cool, I might put in a CFP.
Dates: ✔️
Where: ??
Nah ?‍♂️

— Peter Wilson ?️‍? (@pwcc) March 18, 2017

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.

We are so excited to share the fantastic news that Mike Little @mikelittlezed1 has joined Human Made ??? https://t.co/4yPsWyyCHs

— Human Made (@humanmadeltd) March 16, 2017

Me getting mildly sweary at #WCAkl2017, as captured by @kristarella

Even when I’m doing a code review over dinner I fucking love my job.

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.

Hint 1 for our #respond17 call for presentations: we don’t wait til the deadline to review submissions and decidehttps://t.co/36oVinW5Iy

— Web Directions (@webdirections) February 15, 2017

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.

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