Archives: Notes

TIL there are still facsimile machines.

Recruiters, moving from LinkedIn spam to Meetup spam won’t help. It’s you, not the medium, not us.

Has anyone seen a photo of Julia Gillard looking gleeful? I’ve had a terrific idea for a #libspill joke.

For an industry built around people having a good time, it’s mind-blowing the first thing they do is annoy potential customers.

“A high quality restaurant website” lol.

Uglify does some, frankly, bewildering things. Oh well, it works.

If I add :has to this page, will browser manufactures just assume they missed a meeting and add it? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Pseudo-classes

I see them for what they are but an anonymous coward has pushed buttons and made me furious anyway.

An out of character Colbert is different, it will be interesting to watch the show settle in.

Agreeing to work on old html gives you the opportunity to convert it to modern, mobile-first responsive code. That’s a good feeling.

Talk idea: Nesting in Sass and other ways to kill kittens.

The next day, Atlassian’s servers fail under the influx & their services fail. They announce they are working 24/7.

After the next tech bust Slack, GitHub and NPM Inc shut down within a week. What do you do?

WP Tavern has posted its moderation policy, thanks & props @jeffr0 for listening to & acting on people’s concerns. http://wptavern.com/the-wp-tavern-comment-moderation-policy/

Listening to @replyall 36, not sure what the fuck I’m listening too but I really like it. gimletmedia.com/episode/36-todays-the-day

Deleting 210 files from a repository feels good. Especially when it legitimately improves your product in one fell swoop.

All weekends should last six days. Nap time.

Damn classy

What’s my anniversary date, @telstra?

Setting up for family photo.

Great Ocean Road

The adults are lining up for Kingston biscuits. Children at heart.

Making ourselves at home.

Three types of coffee at BeachPress Vic. People beginning to talk rather than grunt. This is the Australian way.

The hardest decision packing for a hack weekend is which nerd swag to wear. Went with cssconfau, wcmelb hoodie & a Code Poet T.

Good news everybody, I own pyjamas now.

Bugs catching flukes: noticing there are not enough results in a global search because navigating files is so 1993.

Probably not great I am so politically disenfranchised but have you seen the 226 prats we’ve elected?!

Forgetting & opening a twitter client that doesn’t have panda muting at this time on a Monday is quite noisy.

Least specific check for full css3 selector support is .selector:not(browser\\hack).

A part of me wishes .selector:not(*:not(*)) worked; but – the horror, the horror – I’ve seen that selector in ‘nam.

Working out supplies for a large group’s weekend away raises odd questions. Am I greedy or a light eater, is one.

I’ve checked, @maddisondesigns, I’m still right about !important. ?

@pwcc Haha. I’ll check back with you in a couple years then to see if I can say “I told you so!”

— Anthony Hortin ?? (@maddisondesigns) August 24, 2013

I am finding this exceptionally disconnecting.

It’s the last minute! Write a @webdirections proposal http://www.webdirections.org/wd15/cfp.html

(Having second thoughts on sitting this on out, tbh)

Now on WordPress.TV, Wednesday’s #wpmelb dev meetup: I’m an imposter because…

From the archives (2010): JavaScript the WordPress way. https://peterwilson.cc/javascript-the-wordpress-way-part-1/

Comment spam: It seems like Movable Type is the top blogging platform available.
@akismet has created a mod queue & labeled it bullshit.

Queensbury St #3051pride

Let’s gamify database schemas.

When comments go wrong, @tommcfarlin on lessons he’s learnt the hard way. https://tommcfarlin.com/the-dangerous-nature-of-wordpress-comments/

Note to self: European vacation roundabout scene no longer qualifies as a pop culture reference.

pwcc:wp> git fetch –all –tags
pwcc:wp> git checkout 4.3.0
pwcc:wp> cd ../
pwcc:public_html> git commit -am “WP4.3,??? @obenland“

What is document assembly? At scale we can take 10000+ decisions & generate a contract in next to no time. http://www.exari.com/contract-management-products-and-solutions/document-assembly/

Later this year @exari DocGen 7.0 will be released, we’ve made enterprise document assembly responsive. http://www.exari.com/responsive-web-design-who-cares-we-do/

Probably time to stop helping.

https://twitter.com/abcnewsMelb/status/633513782652735488

An ABC reporter has put 1yr’s metadata online. I reckons he works from home a lot, tempted to dig in.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/metadata-retention-privacy-phone-will-ockenden/6694152

Anyone need some network terminators?

Still able to connect a usb keyboard to a 5pin connector.