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A little proud of myself for making it through to 9pm last night with only a 75 minute nap. I was not expecting that after landing at 7am.

The customs agent sympathising that I’d have to do all this travel again next week was both lovely and Not At All Helpful Right Now. But mainly lovely.

Friends I am hanging out with at WordCamp Europe this week, your job is to make sure the idiot Australian doesn’t step out in front of a vehicle because I’m looking the wrong way.

Just when I thought there was no way international travel could be more stressful, they started testing the emergency alarm systems. All of them.

Apparently it’s acceptable to make phone calls on speaker in cafes now. Fortunately I was only getting a takeaway when I learnt this.

I will never get bored of opting in to mailing lists that allow me to do so with @example.com email addresses.

There’s nothing like receiving an email addressed to “Dear git-commit-by” to make a company look respectable.

Last night I watched a YouTube last night about the creation of Lemmings. A working copy is pretty much the only thing I want right now.

Peter’s very helpful guide for catching up on a busy Slack workspace:

1. Open the Slack App
2. Most messages sent overnight will not display at this point
3. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
4. Re-open Slack App
5. Catch up on all messages
6. As you navigate, Slack will display read channels as unread.
7. Press escape on these channels
8. As you navigate, Slack will return to the wrong point in the timeline
9. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
10. Re-open Slack App
11. Wistfully remember when Slack was simpler and worked.

I’m just waiting for bug tracking tools to introduce AI features to detect AI slop and generate a reply that is also slop.

At which point the original reporter will reply with further slop and recursion becomes a feature not a bug.

Steps for completing a BAS statement:

1. Procrastinate for at least three hours
2. Spend about 20 minutes doing BAS

bugs

are the worst.

Race condition

Forgot myself and started adding breakpoints attempting to debug a race condition. The race condition does not occur without a race. ?‍♂️

Remember that time the LNP thought they could win an election with this guy. Good times.

I feel so bad for Antony Green suffering an IT failure on his final federal election. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the ABC’s post election retro.

Election night is super weird because it’s a weird twilight zone in which some politicians are moderately honest for hours on end.

I had queue management opinions (yes multiple) at the voting shop. I kept them to myself because the staff Do Not Need That Kind of Shit.

Election coverage drinking game:

• take a drink every time someone compliments Antony Green
• two drinks if the person is well known to be a massive c—
• three drinks if the person does so on a non-ABC broadcast
• four drinks if the person is hosting a non-ABC broadcast

Looking up where to vote and it turns out our house is the boundary of the electorate.

I want in on this activity.

I think journos are failing to cover the most important issue of the election: why do Albanese and Dutton both wear such terrible glasses.

They’re the wrong shape for their heads.

I’m just waiting to find out that they stole the car, the handbag and the television in the anti-piracy ad. I give it days, not weeks.

Apparently there are good times and bad times to launch a new feature. I wonder where about 11:30am on a Saturday falls on the scale.

I’ve added a page to my website to show a history of a person’s contributions to WordPress Core and the props they received in each release.

Insert very, very middle class complaint about booking international travel here.

Breaking news: still dead. Follow our live blog for further updates.

A few days ago Wordle made me realise that inbox/sent is inconsistent and it should be either inbox/outbox or sent/received.

Thanks New York Times, this is going to bother me for the rest of my life.

I’d love to know how big a spike iView is getting as Australian nerds rewatch Blink.

There’s something very important to realise about the USA denying entry for the thought crime of criticising Trump.

It’s not a problem for the next few years or entering the USA.

There will be a turn back flag on your passport making it difficult to cross ANY border for the rest of your life.

I’m one of those people who can’t give up on a book part way through unless it’s really, really bad. This decade’s book is The Bourne Identity at about a third of the way through.

It’s really, really, realllllly bad.

It didn’t have the name at the time but all the examples of insecure code in this talk were Vibe coded. When I included the instruction to securely process form data, I got the suggestion // your code here.

Shook Ones, Part 2 includes what sounds very much like the Slack DM notification sound throughout the song. Very distracting.

Mr Bump is the new Pam the Bird.

I’m about to start slow cooking a lamb roast (Nagi/RecipeTin Eats, of course) so am preparing for an afternoon of stomach rumblings as it makes the house smell amazing.

When I start manufacturing computers, I’m going improve floating point calculations by offloading them to a Casio computer watch. https://3v4l.org/q89Es

We’re only two episodes in but Am I Being Unreasonable? on SBS On Demand is great. None of the characters are remotely likeable, not even the nine year-old.

Not only is 4Jk2WrCFR2BWMKYCwWFqQFNy9aPmbVLhPBNyMEwauvJoC4HY88 my eldest nephew, he’s also my favourite. I’m glad we’ve got that stored in a financial services account recovery questions.

(Obviously that’s not the answer I gave them for a question only marginally better than mother’s maiden name.)

Season two of Shrinking is really Full On.

In our house, Weeds ended when Agrestic burnt to the ground at the end of season three. It was a clear (and perfect) end to the story.

I kind of feel the same way about Ted Lasso returning to the USA at the end of season three.

No, it definitely hasn’t taken me eleven years to realise that the Rise Like A Phoenix lighting and the Undo lighting were basically the same but rotated 180°.

I know it’s a complex system but I really can’t see why you can set up an individual YouTube Premium account with a G-Suite account but not a family account.

SBS was showing All The President’s Men last night and it all seems so quaint following the last six weeks.

This quote from Jane Fonda’s acceptance speech today is great.

Have any of you watched a documentary of the great social movements … and asked yourself, ‘Would I have been brave enough to walk across the bridge?’

We don’t have to wonder any more because we are in our documentary moment. This is it!

This is big-time serious, so let’s be brave … we must not isolate, we must stay in community, we must protect the vulnerable, we must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future, one that is beckoning and welcoming … let’s make it so

Heh, just noticed and fixed a 15 year old typo in some code.

I’ve successfully replaced a solenoid on the washing machine, apparently without breaking anything. I’m feeling very masc.

The WordPress test suite has included musical references for a long time (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Shucked). Yesterday I added Wicked. Coincidentally, they’re all from patches I’ve worked on.

It occurs to me that Cabaret is a significant omission that must be corrected.

I’m pretty impressed that Fisher & Paykel sell washing machine parts retail and even more impressed they still stock inlet solenoids for a machine I bought 25 years ago.

Autocorrect has decided I’m the kind of self important twat to sign off my emails with an all caps PETER WILSON. It’s very helpful.

Not mentioned in this article about the Pam the Bird arrests is how wildly popular the graffiti is. More of a cult hit than infamous.

How many One Last Time puns is too many for seeing the final Hamilton performance in the country?