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All white-space accurate combinations of WordPress widgets in Pattern Lab at http://underscorespatterns.peterwilson.cc/
Code: https://github.com/peterwilsoncc/underscores-pattern-lab

I am making a pattern library, part of which includes other people’s HTML.

http://bukk.it/ihaveopinionsaboutthings.gif

My reckoning is the #a8cgm costs Automattic around $8-10K per person (3.1-3.9mil). Worth it for team unity.

A three year set up comes to fruition in a few hours. http://martymcflyinthefuture.tumblr.com

Thinking about a compressed CSS style with a secondary aim of avoiding merge conflicts if it’s committed. Thoughts?

/*!tab indents*/
.sel1{prop:value;prop:value}
.sel2,.sel3{prop:value;prop:value}
/*!preserved comment*/
@media(min-width:1px){
	.sel4,.sel5{prop:value;prop:value}
}
.sel6{prop:value;prop:value}

CSS Comb looks pretty sweet. https://github.com/csscomb/csscomb.js/blob/master/doc/options.md
Need to decide what to use, CSSO can be too eager and remove legacy fallbacks.

Docklandia

vagrant up && eat –early –dinner

I’d like to know how many gigabytes of node modules are downloaded daily because cp & rm are not cross-platform.

Hey ninjas! You’re the fucking problem.

Something claiming to be a ninja has followed me. It personifies the masculine dev bullshit I hate in one place. http://floate.com.au/2013/03/no-ninjas-here/

All in one Melbourne.

Ice in an alley.

The Exari Melbourne office is expanding, included in the roles on offer at the moment is a front-end dev. http://www.seek.com.au/job/29544222?pos=1&type=standard&engineConfig=control&tier=no_tier&whereid=

This was the effect on Wikipedia after Doctor Who told people to google Bootstrap Paradox.

Let’s phrase this in terms of the current landscape: IE was the Safari of yesteryear.

Conclusion: the HTML5 document structure will never be implemented. It’s another dead spec. It was a nice idea.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an_HTML5_document

They call me Mr Pop Culture for a reason.

So, Gravity is pretty good.

I especially love open-source when I wake up to discover someone else has done the first thing on my todo list. ?

The road to feature detection is paved with the tears of puppies and kittens.

Watching the WP Slack yesterday, it was really sweet to see the core & lead devs excited as the REST API infrastructure was committed.

#NRAfamily never offers practical tips on how to teach a five year-old to play dead during a mass shooting.

Speaking of back in the day, here’s some thoughts on browser support from long ago, s/ie6/ie8+. https://peterwilson.cc/euthenasing-internet-explorer-6/

Thank you for attending this-morning’s session of rants by the mildly frustrated. Problem solved by remembering back to the day.

Like it or not, a web devs job is to support browsers a site’s users need. As is widely said, supporting and optimising for differ.

Stack Overflow is hilarious:
Q: How do I do this in IE8?
A: whywouldyoudothat and dontsupportie8.
#justusejquery

Protip: IE8 can go die in a ditch.

The Audio element fires some odd events. I keep forgetting that I’ve turned off wifi to trigger an error and thinking MDN is down.

CSSO changes the compressed CSS’s source order. I trust the Yandex team but still it makes me nervous. https://en.bem.info/tools/

URLs are precious. Four-ten is not to be thrown around lightly.

Oh wow, Android 4.1.1 is frustrating, wow. On the upside, work’s big responsive project works on phones that should be crushed like a bug.

I won’t lie, I am pretty pleased with this perf trick.
https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/wp-tevko-responsive-images/blob/46dfaf24b2ca494694a1a4fe18e194357e304ca8/wp-tevko-responsive-images.php#L312-L326

React: doomed.

AngularJS: no theme song. Nothing more to be said.

The secret of jQuery’s success: having a theme song.

Not enough open-source projects have a theme song.

It is amusing how many sites pay interstitial services. They’re paying for web savvy users to close their browser & never come back.

I know this interstitial microcopy was trying to hit witty, not rude. I hit back & never read the content.

Should my Sunday tinker be a WordPress plugin to:

• get the 4.4 comment form order early
• maintain the ‘proper’ comment form order in 4.4+

I predict there will be demand for both.

WordPress 4.4 will change the comment form
Check your sites
WordPress 4.4 will change the comment form
Check ’em now
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/25/changes-to-fields-output-by-comment_form-in-wordpress-4-4/

I’ve started calling mark as read & delete email filters as engagement filters. Tonight, I am engaging with Instagram.

Sometimes the best solution is going to be the most controversial. Oh well.

* Please don’t commit this
* I’ve refreshed this so you can commit it.
Being a developer is complicated.

The direction the ad blocker business model is going is very concerning & fits in with so much internet culture.

I can’t believe how many of you are watching low-rent reality TV!
OMGOMGOMG survivor starts tomorrow!

Unavoidably early morning telephony was unavoidably early ?

Some idiot with two thumbs let the joke title “Vice President of TinyMCE” take hold.

Related: reading TinyMCE source code.

OMG BBQ.

WP REST API: Merge Proposal https://t.co/t4kpRVNQEH via @WordPress

— Joe Hoyle (@joe_hoyle) September 21, 2015