Archives: Notes

Three years after I last checked-in, I’ve downloaded Swarm to keep a log of where I’ve been. I wish I could have an iota of faith in the iOS CovidSafe app.

It’s obvious 5r gives provides tools for and encourages Twitter spam (my fav is auto-replies offering to assist someone at AIOSEO or Yoast with search) but I can’t decide whether to block on follow or only if they DM or mention spam.

In today’s CSS bad take I learnt that Ethan, Nicole, Jen and Rachel are all junior developers despite changing the face of modern front-end web development. Good to know.

I’m trying to do a logic check on why the NSW gov is loosening restrictions for three days over Christmas (not even Boris has done that). The only thing I can come up with is that they are trying to limit rule breaking by relaxing them… but it still doesn’t seem logical.

From an open-source maintainer point of view, PHP 8.0 is, not to put too fine a point to it, a nightmare.
– @jrf_nl

Juliette Reinders Folmer has written an excellent post on the sudden lack of forgiveness in the newest version of PHP.

This NSW outbreak has my already plentiful anxiety sky rocketing again. A new feature is a salting of guilt because all my friends overseas have more to be afraid of than Australians.

Of the contributors to WordPress 5.6, 39% did so for the first time. Their contribution is now running on 6.7 million sites 😎 @AudrasJb has released his summery of contribution stats for WP 5.6.

WordPress 5.6 Core Stats: contributions by country & company

“Peter force-pushed the branch from 123abcd to abc1234 one minute ago”

Ugh, GitHub, I was trying to hide that console.log(). Thankyouverymuch.

I wonder if Dropbox have ever considered selling a service that does cloud storage only. I think it would be really popular.

Let’s all agree that the 2020 year in review articles, tv shows and blog posts can go unpublished.