Archives: Notes

  • I really, really, really like Chassis. I needed to switch my wordpress-develop box to a different PHP version and to use multisite. It’s like the famous five minute install all over again.

  • In the last 24 hours, extra data has been added to the wp_after_insert_post action added to WordPress 5.6: it will now include the previous state of the post. Updated dev note:

    New action wp_after_insert_post in WordPress 5.6.

  • Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is 2021.

  • A pinch and a punch for the 275th of March.

  • Teenage boy writes some letters

  • Let me use spaces in my credit card and phone numbers, you bastards. Let me paste, you bastards. Let me open links my way, you bastards.

  • Query Monitor: Keeping developers’ swear jars empty(ish) since 2013.

  • I think about Brett Sutton’s first tweet occasionally. Environmental health ✅; food safety: does having to close restaurants count??; communicable disease ✅✅✅. But probably not what he had in mind.

  • I am beginning to consider that maybe it was unwise to take my morning walk in this.

    Alt text: weather satellite showing a large patch of rain centred on a location marker.

  • “Damn, I’ve busted my local server.”
    “Oh, I forgot to boot it”

    Every. Single. Day.