Archives: Notes

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.

Tumbling down the rabbit hole of wp-cron. Racey.

The insidious thing about imposter syndrome is having to fight even when making a simple suggestion. So I’ve heard.
http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Melbourne/events/223958802/

Feeling better for buying µ.xyz this week.

Yesterday’s Coalition meeting was 30 minute discussion on SSM, 5.5 hour lesson on saying stupid things in the media.

On one hand, being politically disenfranchised is bad. On the other hand, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ is never going to stop you sleeping.

That not all men were refusing to share a stage with this man is beyond me.

I’ve seen a woman HAVE to refuse to share a stage with a guy who includes porn in his slides. And he still gets invites.

Guys, you know the more women who drop off the speaking circuit after mistreatment at confs, the more ignorant the industry becomes.

The weekend’s exercise in futility was to update my app.net widget for WP4.3 & PHP7. I await your thanks ADN users.

Flanders: 555-8904
Reverend Lovejoy: 555-6542
Dr Nick: KL5-NICK

You’re overthinking demo text when you check the Simpson’s number (555-8707) & Homer’s email address (chunkylover53@aol.com)

Somehow MS Word 2013 is less comprehensible than VI.

trainspotting-shit-scene.gif #GOPdebate – judging by my timeline, at any rate.

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.