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All software eventually becomes email. All email software eventually becomes chat.

Surely even Price super-fans find a seven hour, seventy-five song deluxe version of Diamonds and Pearls a little too much.

If you like a dark comedy (and we’re talking vantablack dark), then give Am I Being Unreasonable on SBS On Demand a go.

Written by cast members Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli it’s starts with the former’s bit on the side dying in a tragic accident and just gets darker and darker from there.

We just finished the second series and are very eagerly waiting on the BBC to commission a third.

“I am not the beta in this relationship” I try to convince myself as I open the bedroom blinds mainly so the cat can lie on the bed and have a good bake in full sun.

Maybe, just maybe, if I have a google form open in two tabs with different content in each it’s because I want to submit two of them. Maybe, just maybe, I don’t want the content of one form to overwrite the contents of another.

Current status: on DuckDuckGo googling the process required to get a trademark genericized.

I’m still disappointed at how quickly Castle became the very thing it started off parodying. I should probably let it go.

I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests pull requests had named them merge requests instead.

It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push and git pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.

That thing when you go to steal someone’s code (open-source!!!) and you can’t help but form opinions about it and end up submitting a pull request.

I have a problem.

Three banking phishing scams this afternoon alone.

Reply ‘Y’ to activate the link or copy and paste the link in to your browser.

Committing 7,696 images totaling over 30MB to an SVN server with a 258ms ping time can take a while.

I’ve released a new WordPress plugin: Local Twemoji.

For sites running over a CDN, this provides a performance improvement by serving emoji fallback images from your own site.

The perf improvement is due to the way modern browsers cache shared CDN assets.

”Where’s the cheese?”

Qantas confirms cyber-attack exposed records of up to 6 million customers:

The data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

So it only contained everything required to obtain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

I am still amused at how angry people got when the Wordle was VIVID.

I’m excited to see Web Directions and The Code Co presenting Enqueue, a developer focused conference for working on WordPress at scale.

Get your tickets now while early bird pricing is available. Get your tickets TODAY if your professional development budget expires at the end of the financial year.

Ever since I read Deborah’s, MBE, Wikipedia entry Disco 2000 has made me a little sad. She went on to do good in the world, much more important than (in her words) being famous for sleeping with Jarvis

I’m going to write a blog post!

… Actually spends two days tinkering on my site.

The Share on Mastodon WordPress plugin now supports content warnings.

Very nice.

Good lord, I’ve found a decent photo of me while giving a talk. My mouth doesn’t look like a dog’s bum, my eyes are open and my arms are in a normal position.

Work scam email of the week: “Dear git-commit-by, I came across your resume on LinkedIn and was…”

The local pub is doing a beef cheek special. The bad news is that I only discovered this after we had bought tonight’s dinner.

Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. […] The more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.

Jono Alderson – JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

No, Peter, you’re never a wet nerd.

Come on, people, it’s not a big ask.

I’m at my wet nerdiest when it comes to variant Sudoku (once you go variant you won’t go back). I got in to it doing the daily Genuinely Approachable Sudokus (GAS), which for many years where hiding out in a Discord for the most part.

But now GAS’s primary home is the open-web and I couldn’t be happier.

In a throwback to my youth, I’m making curried sausages for dinner tonight. This is either going to be very good or very bad.

The 2025 award for making legitimate services, notifications and everything else look as scammy as hell goes to… iwantmyname dot com.

Spokesperson: plaese see our typo ridding statment at iwmy dot third party tracking domain dot com

[BTW: I’m not clicking any links in case they are scams but I think they are legit]

The Tony Awards are taking their sweet time putting up the official footage of the Hamilton reunion. They’re going to lose so many viewers to fan-cams.

I’ll write the LAPD investigation’s summary now: the officer was unaware the woman standing in front of a camera crew describing the situation was a journalist.

I’m just a few hours from heading up to Zurich to catch my flight back to Melbourne. Switzerland is a lovely country but it’s been a busy week so I’m looking forward to getting back home.

The nice local who helped out with the photo told me this was a recent addition to the banks of the Rhine. It’s intended to be temporary but he is hoping they keep it.

I started my morning in Basel with a short walk around the city. There are some subtle signs that Eurovision was in town a couple of weeks ago.

A little proud of myself for making it through to 9pm last night with only a 75 minute nap. I was not expecting that after landing at 7am.

The customs agent sympathising that I’d have to do all this travel again next week was both lovely and Not At All Helpful Right Now. But mainly lovely.

Friends I am hanging out with at WordCamp Europe this week, your job is to make sure the idiot Australian doesn’t step out in front of a vehicle because I’m looking the wrong way.

Just when I thought there was no way international travel could be more stressful, they started testing the emergency alarm systems. All of them.

Apparently it’s acceptable to make phone calls on speaker in cafes now. Fortunately I was only getting a takeaway when I learnt this.

I will never get bored of opting in to mailing lists that allow me to do so with @example.com email addresses.

There’s nothing like receiving an email addressed to “Dear git-commit-by” to make a company look respectable.

Last night I watched a YouTube last night about the creation of Lemmings. A working copy is pretty much the only thing I want right now.

Peter’s very helpful guide for catching up on a busy Slack workspace:

1. Open the Slack App
2. Most messages sent overnight will not display at this point
3. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
4. Re-open Slack App
5. Catch up on all messages
6. As you navigate, Slack will display read channels as unread.
7. Press escape on these channels
8. As you navigate, Slack will return to the wrong point in the timeline
9. Help > Troubleshooting > Clear cache and exit
10. Re-open Slack App
11. Wistfully remember when Slack was simpler and worked.

I’m just waiting for bug tracking tools to introduce AI features to detect AI slop and generate a reply that is also slop.

At which point the original reporter will reply with further slop and recursion becomes a feature not a bug.

Steps for completing a BAS statement:

1. Procrastinate for at least three hours
2. Spend about 20 minutes doing BAS

bugs

are the worst.

Race condition

Forgot myself and started adding breakpoints attempting to debug a race condition. The race condition does not occur without a race. ?‍♂️

Remember that time the LNP thought they could win an election with this guy. Good times.

I feel so bad for Antony Green suffering an IT failure on his final federal election. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the ABC’s post election retro.

Election night is super weird because it’s a weird twilight zone in which some politicians are moderately honest for hours on end.

I had queue management opinions (yes multiple) at the voting shop. I kept them to myself because the staff Do Not Need That Kind of Shit.

Election coverage drinking game:

• take a drink every time someone compliments Antony Green
• two drinks if the person is well known to be a massive c—
• three drinks if the person does so on a non-ABC broadcast
• four drinks if the person is hosting a non-ABC broadcast

Looking up where to vote and it turns out our house is the boundary of the electorate.