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I needed to do a test the tests commit to verify failures.

I can confirm that the test suite fails for node version 42.

I finished writing my latest WordPress plugin over the weekend.

Its working subtitle is “Why write 1200 lines of code (including 700 lines of tests) with no build dependencies when you can write 3,200 lines of code (without any tests) with 73 build dependencies?”

It’s hardly catchy but I think my version of the plugin is better than the latter.

Usually the cat sits under my desk during the day.

Yesterday I took her to the vet to get a vaccination so today she is sulking at the other end of the house.

Indicator use in order of how much it annoys me.

3. No indicator.

2. Turning on the indicator as they start turning the corner.

1. The guy in the red Toyota who literally pointed to the street he planned to turn in to rather than use his indicator.

So many tables on caniemail.com could be replaced with LOL, NOPE.

On Survivor Australia last night, Parvati mentioned that she and David had played Deal or No Deal Island together. Fascinated by the concept, I looked it up and the details are just as terrible as the name suggests. Possibly even worse.

An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.

After seven and a half hours, the house has become the smell of lamb shank. I am getting very hungry but there is still a little while to wait.

I decided to go retro when I drew a Kilopixel. Sadly I am old enough to have played Pong when it was new.

I’m trying to figure out if it’s IndexNow or IndexNow®. I can’t find any registration details online but it’s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.

It’s always DNS. Except for when it’s a missing semi-colon.

The Hamilton movie screening in theatres ?

That it opens two months later in Australia than in the US ☹️

“Reduces the number of database queries … by 344 (347 queries down to 3)” is always nice to write in a commit message. Even if it is for a process that runs once during the lifetime of a site.

I just made the typo npm ruin and I think I’m in to the idea.

In the continuing saga of Peter Listens To The Hottest 100 Days Later Than Every Else.

The Whitlams have much better songs than No Aphrodisiac. Although, that may be the Chunky Chunky Air-Guitar bitterness speaking.

(I just heard Tim Freedman yelling “it was just one goat”.)

Mr Wilson, why do you want to become editor of Wordle?

I want to spend a week setting anagrams of PARSE before quitting without notice.

Insert opinion about a top 10 Hottest 100 song that will actually get me imprisoned for being unaustrayan here.

The Triple J official playlist on YouTube Music for the Hottest 100 contains 99 songs.

I see Australia is still of the opinion that Don Walker writes a bloody good song. Rightly so.

It has been 0️⃣ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.

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.