I should stop trying to word in hot weather.
Archives: Notes
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Guns don’t kill people, encryption kills people.
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If you’re looking for front-end work in the enterprise application space and have damn good CSS, you should get in touch.
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Doing last day of work tasks like cleaning my desk for the first time. Clearly needed to keep this over a year.

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A few weeks ago we held the first WordPress Melbourne contributor day. http://aaronrutley.com/my-small-contribution-to-wordpress/
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Champas
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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
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I’ve had this wild idea for Apple, a button labelled “install massive update on shutdown so I can set and forget”
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How’s that personal brand going for you?
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I can’t tell the spam accounts from real ones anymore so have stopped following back on the whole.
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Backstage at the MAMA awards
T.O.P: I’m wearing a metal overcoat
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A nice day ends with combined end of year drinks for the three #wpmelb meetups. Good times.
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Shut it four eyes. #motivation #motivation #igmotivation #motivationdaily #dailymotivation
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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
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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/
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When you go to make a joke but realise Obama birthers will have said the same thing.
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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/
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Does WordPress work with PHP7?
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The awkward realisation you misunderstood something important.
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Could I please have wholemeal sandwich?
“Margarine?”
Yes thanks.
“Anything else?”
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Couldn’t resist after @sentience‘s talk at MelbCSS last night. I got two wrong.
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Sorry @potus, it is the new normal in the US.
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Wow, @mollydotcom is selling molly.com! http://www.molly.com/2015/12/02/molly-com-domain-name-for-sale/
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The things you do after reading @scottjehl‘s Responsible Web Design.
https://peterwilson.cc/joy949-pagespeed/
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Beacon is my favourite web newspeak.
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As more US states pass anti-contraception laws, victims like those in Colarado will self incriminate giving evidence & need to remain silent
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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
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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)?
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What’s the Slack support channel on Freenode?
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tfw you tweet about race conditions in the WordPress cron implementation and immediately a fitness account starts following you.
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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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Name in lights.
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#3051pride
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Sorely tempted to start replying to recruitment spam telling them I will keep their details on file for future reference.
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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/
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W3C’s site needs “made with ❤️ everywhere” in the footer. First, of course, it needs some ❤️
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Running WP in a sub-folder is a great way of reducing the number of malicious login attempts.
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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
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Other times I go hunting for a view and reinforce it with steel and concrete.
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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.
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Brisbane has achieved a humidity of over 100%.
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nth-child maths: http://bukk.it/vincentpricewtf.gif
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Breaking news: homophobic bigots dislike being labelled homophobic bigots. We’ll cross live to the bigots shortly.
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Related: Brisbane proving quite nice, if a little inconvenient when you try to call a Melbourne business after 4:30pm.
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What’s wrong with daylight savings time anyway? Get in a proper timezone you deranged hicks.
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Man flees Iraq after translating for Aus & our allies puts his life in danger. We charge him $20k & send him back.
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So that’s why my legs feel a little sore this-morning

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