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A few weeks ago we held the first WordPress Melbourne contributor day. http://aaronrutley.com/my-small-contribution-to-wordpress/

Champas

Wow, uglifyJS knows a lot of tricks that add &&. Doing research to followup the strangest WP bug I’ve worked on. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34698

I’ve had this wild idea for Apple, a button labelled “install massive update on shutdown so I can set and forget”

How’s that personal brand going for you?

I can’t tell the spam accounts from real ones anymore so have stopped following back on the whole.

Backstage at the MAMA awards
T.O.P: I’m wearing a metal overcoat
Pet Shop Boys: we’re wearing plastic straws

A nice day ends with combined end of year drinks for the three #wpmelb meetups. Good times.

Shut it four eyes. #motivation #motivation #igmotivation #motivationdaily #dailymotivation

When you discover three days later the joke is not a joke.

I'm proud to announce that WordPress is now an official Olaf provider!

$ curl -Is https://t.co/v2cqcykXDt | grep X-Olaf
X-Olaf: ⛄

— Gary (@GaryPendergast) December 6, 2015

WordPress 4.4 has been released. Millions of sites will start using responsive images over the next day. https://wordpress.org/news/2015/12/clifford/

When you go to make a joke but realise Obama birthers will have said the same thing.

Congratulations new WordPress committers! Collecting first commits for the occasion:

Mike Schroder: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35802/

Mel Choyce: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35807/

Eric Lewis: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35800/

Rachel Baker: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35786/

Pascal Birchler: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35795/

Michael Arestad: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35791/

Joe Hoyle: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35817/

Does WordPress work with PHP7?
http://doeswp.workwithphp7.com/

The awkward realisation you misunderstood something important.

Could I please have wholemeal sandwich?
“Margarine?”
Yes thanks.
“Anything else?”
Huh?

http://doeswordpress.workwithphp7.com/ #wcus

Couldn’t resist after @sentience‘s talk at MelbCSS last night. I got two wrong.
https://sitthetest.com/sitthetest/css-core/

Sorry @potus, it is the new normal in the US.

Wow, @mollydotcom is selling molly.com! http://www.molly.com/2015/12/02/molly-com-domain-name-for-sale/

The things you do after reading @scottjehl‘s Responsible Web Design.

https://peterwilson.cc/joy949-pagespeed/

Beacon is my favourite web newspeak.

As more US states pass anti-contraception laws, victims like those in Colarado will self incriminate giving evidence & need to remain silent

I’m sure I’ll have as much fun watching the #wcus live stream in my t-shirt as those attending.

/me wipes single tear off face

Draft your job ad to fight impostor syndrome. What would end up on Seek if you were head-hunted tomorrow (‘cos you’re worth head-hunting)?

What’s the Slack support channel on Freenode?

tfw you tweet about race conditions in the WordPress cron implementation and immediately a fitness account starts following you.

Sad story, Fontdeck are closing down. Here’s the email they’ve sent to customers. They haven’t yet published the promised blog post.

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This happened.

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Name in lights.

#3051pride

Sorely tempted to start replying to recruitment spam telling them I will keep their details on file for future reference.

Seeing some snide comments by WordPress-types about Drupal 8 lead time. From four years ago on @smashingmag http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/dear-drupal-seasons-greetings-love-smashing-wordpress/

W3C’s site needs “made with ❤️ everywhere” in the footer. First, of course, it needs some ❤️

Running WP in a sub-folder is a great way of reducing the number of malicious login attempts.

No need to escape pandas in your IDs or class names. https://mothereff.in/css-escapes#0class!%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%29%2a%2B%2C-.%2F%3A%3B%3C%3D%3E%3F%40%5B%5C%5D%5E%60%7B%7C%7D~name%F0%9F%90%BCcase

Other times I go hunting for a view and reinforce it with steel and concrete.

Sometimes I try not to form a firm view about something but–in the middle of the night–my mind wanders and–BAM–a firm view forms.

Brisbane has achieved a humidity of over 100%.

nth-child maths: http://bukk.it/vincentpricewtf.gif

Breaking news: homophobic bigots dislike being labelled homophobic bigots. We’ll cross live to the bigots shortly.

Related: Brisbane proving quite nice, if a little inconvenient when you try to call a Melbourne business after 4:30pm.

What’s wrong with daylight savings time anyway? Get in a proper timezone you deranged hicks.

Man flees Iraq after translating for Aus & our allies puts his life in danger. We charge him $20k & send him back.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-09/khaled-iraq/6923434

So that’s why my legs feel a little sore this-morning

So, I gather the Valley gets up to taj mahal levels of batshittery on the weekends.

Interesting this produces a truthy or falsy string

<?php
wp_localize_script( 'pwcc-functions', 'pwccConfig', array(
  'isSingle' => is_single(),
) );

but this is all lovely and boolean.

<?php
wp_localize_script( 'pwcc-functions', 'pwccConfig', array(
  'is' => array(
    'single' => is_single(),
  )
) );

It’s an abuse of the localisation function so I can see why it expects a string.

Coincidently, a related trac ticket was opened a few hours after this post.

Spending next week in Brisbane & attending the WordPress Meetup. Who’s around?

Couples shopping together and arguing about which tomatoes to buy.
❤️

Finally managed to make it through the Tavern’s oembed post’s comments without closing the browser and not-so-silently judging people.

I accidentally became involved in the feature after I looked at the code to find out how I could replace the WP logo with the PW logo.

I noticed there were a few things around the edges that needed massaging for older browsers. Just call me old man internet.

Discussion for the feature started in earnest on July 18 on Make and in late May on trac. The merge proposal was published on September 30. The time for expressing reservations was then.

I didn’t hold a strong opinion about this feature either way. Once it, and any other feature, is set to go into core – the best thing I can do is to help improve the feature.

There were also some interesting puzzles to solve and I like Sudokus.

Comparing Lead and Core developers to Mao and Hitler because you missed a five month window to discuss a proposed feature doesn’t help anyone. Certainly not yourself.

I never thought I’d become a regular contributor to WordPress Core. I am glad I did, if nothing else it has given me an opportunity to work with some really passionate people.

Regular contributor. Never thought I’d say that.