Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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