Archives: Notes

I think Surry Hills is my Sydney spiritual home.

This is how bridges do fault tolerance, the web equivalent is pages that work without JavaScript.

Walked Ultimo – Surry Hills – Bot Gardens (via Oxford St) – Circular Quay – Darling Harbour. Time for a nap.

Two years ago I wrote about tech’s bro-culture on @floateDesign‘s blog. DICSS shows it’s still relevant. floate.com.au/2013/03/no-ninjas-here

No matter how often I fly, weather from above continues to impress.

The truth about !important by @j9t http://meiert.com/en/blog/20150310/important/

Word.

Super impressed with the Virgin Australia web check-in process. Super usable.

Inflicted a lunch time rehearsal of Thursday’s talk on my work mates.

Little weird given some of them are alluded to in the talk. :D

I’ll take FOUT over FOIT any day of the week.

Checking out my site on a Sydney instance of WebPagetest – fair to say it could do with some maintenance.

Have launched a new theme on my site. Take a look.

https://peterwilson.cc/

Sure seems odd to get props for typing the number 600. :)

Tested inlining CSS on my local machine last night, it immediately cut load time by 40%. That’s with zero network latency.

Getting a sudden surge in referrals from Google News and trying to figure out why. I get nothing on an ego search.

The Myki website is truly remarkable.

Happy Mardi Gras sydney homos & queers. Have some gay pride for me.

It seems backward, the + adjacent sibling selector is CSS2.1, while the ~ general sibling selector is CSS3.

If your JavaScript detects the breakpoint on load but not resize, your site’s not really responsive. I’m sure it’s very pretty.

This has gone too far, Internet.

@savedyouaclick lost the Internet today. Chin up, there’s always tomorrow. #llamagate #dressghazi

“(segue here)”

This was much easier to write than it is to edit.

Too hard to contribute.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/dialog-polyfill/pull/42

Let’s focus on how worthy Rosie Batty is as Australian of the Year. She has been remarkable from her first press conference.

heh, $(thing).trigger('someEvent') bubbles, $(thing).triggerHandler('someEvent') does not.

… also, very impressed AIDS.gov is SSL by default. It gets better shows why hiding from snooping parents is important.

tinder for … jokes dot tumblr dot com

Point is Chris Kenny would receive less personal abuse than Caroline Marcus for the same tweet/headline.

Babysitting niblings tonight. Hoping to find a kids’ movie that won’t cause us to gnaw off our legs to survive.

Three years as a non-smoker today. Not coughing up crap constantly is p good.

I am curious to find out where this two year set up is going.

http://martymcflyinthefuture.tumblr.com/archive

Just completed first run rehearsal of my next talk. Bang on 18 minutes, but it needs more lawyer jokes.

Who wants to do the slides?

I want to give my sister read access to my nephew’s email via the Google Apps admin panel.

Via gmail settings allows him to disable it.

Shank

Another terrifying kid’s party

Cool, I think I broke webmentions. Either that or I’m impatient.

We shall see.

The good news: responsive tables.

The bad news: using them crashes iOS Safari.

Ad networks need to start selling responsive units before they go the way of the record company.

Dear Premier Newman,

I choose Uber Brisbane for their astroturfing.

It can’t stressed be enough how friendly & helpful the Indieweb movement is. It’s such a pleasant contrast to the gamergate crazy.

What is real? What is satire? I can’t tell anymore.

Fearing a code of conduct isn’t a reflection of CoCs, it’s a reflection of your conduct. Subtweeting node.js trolls.

Guys, guys, guys, how about you stop being surprised by females writing code. It’s 2014, ffs.

I'm at a recruiting event & I was talking to someone who told me they were a JS engineer, I said "me too!" And he asked me if I was joking

— rachel (@ohhoe) November 14, 2014

‘owl lobotomy’ has overtaken ‘dreamboat paul irish’ as my favourite work related search term.

My GP has replaced the antibiotics another Dr prescribed with chewing gum & blowing up balloons with my nose.

Trying to write a unit test for a tablesaw bug

It’s going as well as I expected :(

Blocked ear from sinus infection is beginning to worry me. I like hearing.

It’s surprisingly easy to get a local instance of jsbin running. Very clear instructions in the Github repo.

Catching up with Adnan, Jay, et al after three weeks without listening to podcasts. 21 minutes.

The view from my seat after telling VA staff I wouldn’t object to an earlier flight.

ATL > LAX > SYD > MEL