Archives: Notes

Mad programming skill I’d love to pick up: remembering it’s trigger_error() and not trigger_log() before triggering a fatal.

As an aside, trigger_error() triggers a notice, you need to specify if you want trigger_error() to trigger an error.

We had finish at home Cumulus for dinner tonight. Would recommend as a way to get out of the house during iso.

I’ve noticed fewer press conference clashes recently. Yes, I’ll take credit and your thanks.

 

I have opinions about Facebook. I certainly have opinions about them deprecating their oembed endpoints. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed-legacy

Dan Andrews did this too late/too early.
Dan Andrews should do this/do that.

Maybe, just maybe, political commentators should be kept on a leash and their reckons wrapped in a green plastic bag and thrown in the nearest bin.

Doing some testing to try an emulate how a journalist might use works CMS. One of the things I am testing is quoting Dan Andrews press conference. TVeeder is pretty amazing.

Press conferences could really do with some house and walk-on music. And a stage manager’s discipline for starting on time.

That every news organisation has a reliable source leaking Victoria’s C-19 numbers every day, I can’t help but think the ship of state is leaking from the top again.

It turns out my office is within 5km of home. Not that I have any plans to go near it, ugh train trips, but it’s amusing me on a rough day for a lot of Victorians.

Combining Hamilton and the Muppets is a great idea and remains hilarious right up until the point you wake with an ear worm of a chicken rapping.