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Hey, Wilson, don’t read the comments.

You don’t get to complain about both automatic security updates and the time it takes to manually update if you disable them.

Bug tracker terminology is unfriendly. The worst is closed: invalid. At best it comes off as CLOSED: INVALID. At worst it scares users away.

I suspect some MPs enter politics for personal gain & are lying about their dedication to public service.

This American Life’s education reporting is second-to-none. Really interesting story on integration this week.

Quite good that film, yes.

Fixing never having seen Die Hard. Finding the smoking really disconcerting. Fine with the killing, duh.

Remarkably, @bankmecu have made a template for future phishing attempts (my ironic highlighting)
https://peterwilson.cc/content/uploads/2015/08/bankmecu-phishing-template.pdf

Hello Australia. Remember when we were judging Americans for their Confederate flags a few weeks ago?

Microsoft promise to improve Windows 10 messaging.

@telstra Without the “with n days left” part, this warning is of no use. Could you please bring it back.

.@corybernardi: There is no legal discrimination between same-sex couples *except*

Look. Gonna stop you there, Cory.

Collecting ideas on comment moderation. Not policy ideas but how to deal with the before and after.
https://github.com/peterwilsoncc/rapid-comment-moderation/issues/1

As I approach forty, I am forming opinions on turning 40 that are new and interesting. Friends, I was a naïve kid. I didn’t know.

cook a rib-eye steak rare in 25g of butter, salting every 30sec. Bin it, eat another fkn chicken breast because your cholesterol is 7.1

Half way through a first round interview with a recruiter she abruptly called it off and told me it was hopeless.

I’d never get the job, there was no point continuing the interview.

The dumb twenty-six year-old in the room, got up disheartened and prepared to leave.

The recruiter handed me a pen & piece of paper and told me we’d start again same time next week. Next week I’d come prepared & on the paper would be all the things I’d ever done in tech.

There would be no “I kind of can do…” or “I’ve tinkered with…” In their place there would be definitive statements “I can do…”

like an idiot, I cancelled the following weeks interview via email a few days later – a dumb twenty-six year old not realising she saw potential I didn’t.

When imposter syndrome hits, I often think of the recruiter and whether it would still be hitting if I’d taken her up on her offer.

Probably. Best I can do is try and adopt some advise I half listened to as a dumb twenty-six year old. Following through and getting all the advice would have been a good idea.

writing a post on my phone over breakfast. http://www.whatdomobileuserswanttodo.com

RISK TAKING PLAYGROUND

Please shut the gate.

Please use the path.

The Docklands sci fi dystopian future is bustling on a Saturday.

Amazed* at how some devs use WordPress shortcodes. I feel for the site owners affected, their devs need to shoulder some blame.

* horrified

?? Freedom ??

Vote 1 …
Yeah, nah I think I’m busy that day.

Severely looking forward to @krogsgard‘s full post on the Pearson/Mullenweg brouhaha.

Anyone know what the sound is like at AAMI Park after the rebuild, good enough for a T Swift ticket?

I have 14 domains with mark as read, delete it filters. Hashtag brand engagement.

Time for Gawker sites to join reddit & hacker news in my hosts file block list.

https://twitter.com/mckinnon_a/status/621874309154209792

3051 pride.

Middle-class white guy wants diversity of perspective & ideas rather than gender, race, etc.
Real world blinks & moves the grown ups’ table.

Dammit, Peter, don’t read the comments.

WordPress’s plugins SVN has a ticketing system & I’ve been closing them syncing Github commits. Oops.
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19#comment:7

In 2010 I formed a view on a subject & wrote it down in what can only be described as a window of ignorance. Waiting.

I’m now the sort of person who creates spreadsheets for social events.

You will become your parents, kids.

The Hacking Team 0days are because WordPress supports PHP 5.2.

Four years since my first WordPress props. It broke backward compatibility and remains in core. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18018

The Godwin’s law of #wpdrama.

https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/618523672131801088

Have updated one of the most useful reminders on my monitor.

sometimes I go too far (did so 2 days ago) disagreeing with a commit/feature. But you can STFU with racist or sexist comments.

A shame, just had to close comments on a post to avoid being hit by #wpdrama shrapnel.

It must be said, despite sweary rants giving him every reason not to be, @markjaquith is incredibly responsive.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22889

Hmm, unblessed => punt it => committed and screw progressive enhancement in the 7 hours Aus was sleeping. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22889

Back in the day it was decided comment replies were core functionality. It either is or it isn’t, not some half assed enhancement.

This commit essentially says comment replies are no-longer core functionality. Clicking reply “too early” can currently explode JavaScript.

Result: on a large comment thread, attempting to reply to a comment can kill the feature all together even for users running JavaScript.

On an ideal network this is fine, most people are not on ideal networks. Fuck, parts of Florida are stuck on shitty 2G connections.

A three year old ticket with negative usability implications should not go from comatose to punted to committed over the course of a night.

Why are all the sites celebrating diversity refusing to listen to the feels of hateful asshats?

After being ignored trying to buy a PVR in three shops, the government buying Gerry Harvey’s propaganda is galling.

@cnn oh my god, ISIS have invaded North Melbourne #omgisis

For your podcatcher, audio of Mark Scott’s talk last night. https://huffduffer.com/peterwilsoncc/244826

I believe watching the #WCEU stream over second-class Australian broadband will be just like being there. So goes the mantra.

Official status as @Joy949 volunteer came through last night following @AviOnJOY‘s successful goading.

@pwcc I’d love to dare you to try and achieve that with a complex WordPress theme and lots of plugins. I can’t even get close. :(

— Djelibeybi (@Djelibeybi) May 31, 2015

Zero: positive, negative, neither or both?

Way to ruin the weekend of a bunch of Apple execs, Tay. Four and a half stars.

A commenter from a LOTE background left a comment making the same point as a post. I have a post to rewrite.