Peter Wilson

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  • 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.

    "Remember: JavaScript is weird" written on a post it not. The previous message "...can be weird" has been crossed out.

  • 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

    A black flag for MANCUSO & CO salon.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I learn the names of exits at Central.
    They remove all the signs.
    I see your game, Sydney.

  • Woolloomooloo pier, boats and John Laws (seriously)

  • Doors are closed, seats next to me are empty.

  • keep digging, in a world of one click forks that’s definitely the best course of action.

  • “How do you remove the WordPress Customizer changes with bootstrap?”
    /me barely resisting urge to troll Facebook group.

  • Looks like @Yoast SEO auto-updated, wondering if it’s @WordPress or @mediatemple. It’s pathetic an XSS fix was in a feature release.

  • Quark developer @maddisondesigns has suggested widening the scope of WordPress customizer improvements.
    http://maddisondesigns.com/2015/06/lets-talk-about-the-wordpress-customizer/

  • The @linkedin iOS app now shows the anti pattern trying to trick you into giving up your contacts on every open. Dick move deleted.

  • Wind turbines: quieter than an asthmatic’s wheeze.

  • The Prime Minister is becoming increasingly peculiar.

  • Any chance of a WPSEO 2.1.2 with just the XSS fix @yoast? I’d rather wait for 2.2 bug fixes.

  • Two baby day.

    I’m a little bit full, tbh.

  • Now menus are in the WordPress Theme Customizer, does the theme review team require menus use Open Sans?

  • Which emoji is the WordPress theme customizer?

    (Don’t be so predictable)

  • Kids say the darnedest things.

  • First pass of unobtrusive comment-reply.js for WordPress threaded comments. github.com/peterwilsoncc/rapid-comment-reply (just the facts edition)

  • What client services devs think of the WordPress customiser *proposal* is clear, what are theme shops, etc saying? They use the customiser.

  • I assume OptinMonster doesn’t fire a GA event on close to enable tracking of visitors leaving before reading the content.

  • ‘Sup @DramaPress?

  • When you’re justifiably proud of yourself for remaining “a nice boy”

  • The two hardest things in web development are naming things.

  • Plane half full of a pro-footballers on the way back. One of ’em started scrolling through photos on his phone. Footballers are weird.

  • Taking a walk around South Bank following #wcbne.

  • My challenge for freelancers today is to track your time for the next week – @thewebprincess #wcbne

  • Opening remarks #wcbne

  • #wcbne

  • Oh, look it’s Brisbane. Hi.