Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

    SBS site with invisible text

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

    WebPagetest Sydney results showing Windows 8 needs a restart

  • 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.

    tay-lenovo

  • @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.

  • ‘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

  • To order a satisfactory Starbucks coffee: cafe latte, low foam, at 140 degrees, thanks.

  • According to the Cloud Appreciation Society.

    – ABC News

  • Imagine a photo of a middle aged dog looking after a sick niece. In block letters at the bottom it says “I have no idea what I’m doing”