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SBS was showing All The President’s Men last night and it all seems so quaint following the last six weeks.

This quote from Jane Fonda’s acceptance speech today is great.

Have any of you watched a documentary of the great social movements … and asked yourself, ‘Would I have been brave enough to walk across the bridge?’

We don’t have to wonder any more because we are in our documentary moment. This is it!

This is big-time serious, so let’s be brave … we must not isolate, we must stay in community, we must protect the vulnerable, we must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future, one that is beckoning and welcoming … let’s make it so

Heh, just noticed and fixed a 15 year old typo in some code.

I’ve successfully replaced a solenoid on the washing machine, apparently without breaking anything. I’m feeling very masc.

The WordPress test suite has included musical references for a long time (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Shucked). Yesterday I added Wicked. Coincidentally, they’re all from patches I’ve worked on.

It occurs to me that Cabaret is a significant omission that must be corrected.

I’m pretty impressed that Fisher & Paykel sell washing machine parts retail and even more impressed they still stock inlet solenoids for a machine I bought 25 years ago.

Autocorrect has decided I’m the kind of self important twat to sign off my emails with an all caps PETER WILSON. It’s very helpful.

Not mentioned in this article about the Pam the Bird arrests is how wildly popular the graffiti is. More of a cult hit than infamous.

How many One Last Time puns is too many for seeing the final Hamilton performance in the country?

Jason Mantzoukas on Taskmaster is so fair down my alley that I’m thinking of getting a restraining order.

I’m rewatching Ted Lasso at the moment and reaching the tail end of season two. I need to decide whether I want to rewatch season three, it has its moments but is really lacking compared to the other seasons.

Remember that time Docker messed up their build’s signatures and countless hours of productively were lost at companies all around the world.

Weren’t the smug arseholes who use other dev environments the worst. ❤️ someone who has spent years listening to “What, you still use Vagrant? Why would you?!”

There’s nothing like staring at a content placeholder for minutes on end to make a website feel zippy. Perceived performance is where it’s at.

I’m sure glad there are no essential government services behind the my.gov.au login given it’s been down since Saturday. I’m also thrilled that their only social media account is the Nazi bar.

TIL that Copilot will suggest // Copilot hallucination when given the prompt // Copilot h. Excellent work all involved.

I watched Unbreakable last night after seeing a YouTube video about how it was edited. I think it’s a little flawed but it is interesting to see the use of long shots.

For the last few months, whenever I see an aurora photo, my first thought is that it’s something to do with Wicked.

I just found a playlist called feeling good in the 90s that features Pulp’s Common People. Whoever put together that playlist really needs to listen to the lyrics.

Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they’ll tear your insides out

Cook the RecipeTin Eats’ 5 Minute Fall-apart Massaman Lamb Shoulder. Make enough for left overs because it’s pure amazement after a night in the fridge.

Happy birthday to everyone who doesn’t want Facebook to have their date of birth. Happy 55th birthday to the nerds.

If you start watching Purple Rain at 10pm, you’ll be discussing its most problematic aspects as the clock strikes midnight.

I got a phone call from the security department at my bank yesterday. It started with “you may think this is a scam but I will not ask you for any information, I will only be providing you with information”, the caller then went on to warn “please don’t give me information as part of this conversation” and advised me to call the bank after the call to verify the notes added to my account.

I was impressed.

[Anti wage theft laws] will add yet another layer of complex and burdensome regulation on business, especially small business.

– Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Good to know that industry peak bodies see paying wages and benefits as a burden.

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It’s the consistency we’ve come to know and love.

It drives me wild that newspapers use algorithmic Sudokus. I’ve learnt watching Cracking the Cryptic there are some really great setters out there who can put together an interesting puzzle in minutes. The NYT has a Wordle editor but still publishes boring Sudokus.

The Cleaner with and written by Greg Davies is such a great show and iView have added a Christmas special to the listing. Hopefully this means season two will be added soon.

Arguing whether a singer is this genre or that genre is so cute. If a song slaps, it does not matter.

This should be fun, I’m going to see Hamilton one last time for the final Australian performance in Sydney next month. Insert Wait For It pun here.

I’ve decided I want to write a new talk next year, I’m hoping to wrap up brainstorming in mid January so I can make a start nice and early.

Today’s exciting holiday activity is reading Choice magazine’s reviews of both Fridges and Dishwashers. ?

Little known fact, the same rule applies for the John Clarke The Front Fell Off video as for the Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle video.

You must watch it whenever it comes up in your feed.

Someone listened to Alanis Morissette’s Your House and said “that’s great, let’s hide it”.

Hidden tracks are such a dumb idea.

OpenAI: ChatGPT generates over a billion words a day!

Website Moderators: [deleting three quarters of a billion words of spam a day] Ugh, tell me about it.

I’ve realised there are a number of Discworld TV adaptations that I’ve never watched. Are there any that should be avoided?

A real estate agent emailed me to announce they have been nominated for the Real Estate Business (REB) Awards 2025. I am tempted to reply to congratulate them.

Singlets aren’t the best look but it’s that kind of a day.

I want to create a bot that auto posts cat on keyboard posts in the style of Melon Husk.

so true:

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2 hours and 40 minutes seems very long for half a movie.

Is the Faceytalk episode of Bluey illegal now?

It’s the last day of my holidays and my idiot brain suggested logging back into work email & slack to catch up. Fortunately my logical brain replied with an obscenity or two.

Youngs are complaining about the age of the actors in wicked. These kids need to watch 90210.

the satisfaction of arriving home literally second before it starts raining

The YTM algorithm is somewhat lacking. I started a radio from James’ Laid – one of the most britpop pop songs of the britpop era. The third song was American Music by the Violent Femmes. A good song but read the fucking room, YouTube.

My online Pet Supplies store of choice has changed hands and now only delivers to NSW. I guess I need to find a new shop. Or carry 30L of kitty litter home from the supermarket on the regular but that is not going to happen. I’m a weak computer nerd.

Back to the Future but Marty’s dad is working on ARPANET before the future changes and he becomes an author instead

After years of speaking, I am still discovering rookie mistakes I am making.

I used the conference name in a screenshot for some slides last year and was stuck with it recently when I was called in to repeat the talk as a last minute replacement for another conference.

The good thing about my new site is that I’m back to the indieweb ideal of posting notes to my site for distribution elsewhere.

The next best thing is being able to dump a bunch of custom code.

Managed to update my site with only a single DB query run on production.

I probably should have backed up the DB first but YOLO.

Currently compiling some stats for a blog post. One stat of interest is that by the time I hit publish it will be 1,234 days since my previous blog post. Oops.

https://fosstodon.org/@peterwilsoncc You?

Karen’s just getting too random to hang around Twitter.