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I watched the Hamilton the Musical episode of Hard Quiz last night and all I can think is how much of a waste of a subject it was that the contestant didn’t make it to the final round.

I am tempted to write an NPM package that just bricks a machine whenever someone types a tilde, caret or the word latest.

Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of the time period. No token/request hash needed.

Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don’t worry, I would never…). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.

ANZ’s history of fines: November 2017, February 2018, October 2020, October 2022, March 2023, September 2023, December 2023 and September 2025.

They’ve apologised and promised to improve their systems to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. I presume the system improvements are to better hide their actions from regulators.

People around my age used to have a lot more colour in their hair.

Me browsing the internet this week: oh, this is the bad place.

I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they’re by Thomas Snyder a name anyone who has watched Cracking the Cryptic should recognise.

Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.

Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers.

“How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we’re serious)?”

I still occasionally think about how much I’d hate to work for those people.

I released a new SEO WordPress Plugin last week: Simple Search Submission for IndexNow.

I thought the official plugin was over-engineered and had an unnecessary top level menu so wrote one that got out of the way and just got the job done.

It’s also available on GitHub (issues and pull requests welcome) and via composer: composer require peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission

I guess we all should have seen believing medical science is woke (pejorative) as a natural extension of believing climate science is woke (pejorative).

I’m sure some people saw it coming but it didn’t occur to me.

Bookmarking: A random list of RecipeTin Eats cooks I’ve done. I’ve even started looking up things I know how to cook for ways to improve.

• Sausage Bake with Potatoes and Gravy
• Roast Chicken
• Pad Thai
• Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks in Red Wine Sauce
• Gravy Baked Chicken (thighs & drumsticks)
• Slow Roast Leg of Lamb
• Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks
• Poached Chicken Breasts
• 5 Minute Fall-apart Massaman Lamb Shoulder

80s styled curried sausages is missing from the list because it wasn’t a success.

In our house, we like chicken and we like lamb.

There are admissions of guilt and then there’s node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.

I needed to do a test the tests commit to verify failures.

I can confirm that the test suite fails for node version 42.

I finished writing my latest WordPress plugin over the weekend.

Its working subtitle is “Why write 1200 lines of code (including 700 lines of tests) with no build dependencies when you can write 3,200 lines of code (without any tests) with 73 build dependencies?”

It’s hardly catchy but I think my version of the plugin is better than the latter.

Usually the cat sits under my desk during the day.

Yesterday I took her to the vet to get a vaccination so today she is sulking at the other end of the house.

Indicator use in order of how much it annoys me.

3. No indicator.

2. Turning on the indicator as they start turning the corner.

1. The guy in the red Toyota who literally pointed to the street he planned to turn in to rather than use his indicator.

So many tables on caniemail.com could be replaced with LOL, NOPE.

On Survivor Australia last night, Parvati mentioned that she and David had played Deal or No Deal Island together. Fascinated by the concept, I looked it up and the details are just as terrible as the name suggests. Possibly even worse.

An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.

After seven and a half hours, the house has become the smell of lamb shank. I am getting very hungry but there is still a little while to wait.

I decided to go retro when I drew a Kilopixel. Sadly I am old enough to have played Pong when it was new.

I’m trying to figure out if it’s IndexNow or IndexNow®. I can’t find any registration details online but it’s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.

It’s always DNS. Except for when it’s a missing semi-colon.

The Hamilton movie screening in theatres ?

That it opens two months later in Australia than in the US ☹️

“Reduces the number of database queries … by 344 (347 queries down to 3)” is always nice to write in a commit message. Even if it is for a process that runs once during the lifetime of a site.

I just made the typo npm ruin and I think I’m in to the idea.

In the continuing saga of Peter Listens To The Hottest 100 Days Later Than Every Else.

The Whitlams have much better songs than No Aphrodisiac. Although, that may be the Chunky Chunky Air-Guitar bitterness speaking.

(I just heard Tim Freedman yelling “it was just one goat”.)

Mr Wilson, why do you want to become editor of Wordle?

I want to spend a week setting anagrams of PARSE before quitting without notice.

Insert opinion about a top 10 Hottest 100 song that will actually get me imprisoned for being unaustrayan here.

The Triple J official playlist on YouTube Music for the Hottest 100 contains 99 songs.

I see Australia is still of the opinion that Don Walker writes a bloody good song. Rightly so.

It has been 0️⃣ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.

All software eventually becomes email. All email software eventually becomes chat.

Surely even Price super-fans find a seven hour, seventy-five song deluxe version of Diamonds and Pearls a little too much.

If you like a dark comedy (and we’re talking vantablack dark), then give Am I Being Unreasonable on SBS On Demand a go.

Written by cast members Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli it’s starts with the former’s bit on the side dying in a tragic accident and just gets darker and darker from there.

We just finished the second series and are very eagerly waiting on the BBC to commission a third.

“I am not the beta in this relationship” I try to convince myself as I open the bedroom blinds mainly so the cat can lie on the bed and have a good bake in full sun.

Maybe, just maybe, if I have a google form open in two tabs with different content in each it’s because I want to submit two of them. Maybe, just maybe, I don’t want the content of one form to overwrite the contents of another.

Current status: on DuckDuckGo googling the process required to get a trademark genericized.

I’m still disappointed at how quickly Castle became the very thing it started off parodying. I should probably let it go.

I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests pull requests had named them merge requests instead.

It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push and git pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.

That thing when you go to steal someone’s code (open-source!!!) and you can’t help but form opinions about it and end up submitting a pull request.

I have a problem.

Three banking phishing scams this afternoon alone.

Reply ‘Y’ to activate the link or copy and paste the link in to your browser.

Committing 7,696 images totaling over 30MB to an SVN server with a 258ms ping time can take a while.

I’ve released a new WordPress plugin: Local Twemoji.

For sites running over a CDN, this provides a performance improvement by serving emoji fallback images from your own site.

The perf improvement is due to the way modern browsers cache shared CDN assets.

”Where’s the cheese?”

Qantas confirms cyber-attack exposed records of up to 6 million customers:

The data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

So it only contained everything required to obtain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

I am still amused at how angry people got when the Wordle was VIVID.

I’m excited to see Web Directions and The Code Co presenting Enqueue, a developer focused conference for working on WordPress at scale.

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Ever since I read Deborah’s, MBE, Wikipedia entry Disco 2000 has made me a little sad. She went on to do good in the world, much more important than (in her words) being famous for sleeping with Jarvis

I’m going to write a blog post!

… Actually spends two days tinkering on my site.

The Share on Mastodon WordPress plugin now supports content warnings.

Very nice.