Peter Wilson

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  • 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.

    "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.