Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • Let he who hasn’t signed a contract to horrendously overpay for a website as a troll, only be forced to go through with it because — well, contracts — throw the first stone.

  • My username on Twitter is a real outlier: on YouTube I’m peterwilsoncc, on GitHub I’m peterwilsoncc, on Tumblr I’m peterwilsoncc, on LinkedIn I’m peterwilsoncc, etc, etc for various sites.

    Anyway, here is a link to my Twitter profile. https://twitter.com/pwcc

  • I love how much WordPress contributors embrace music, I’m currently listening to a playlist of songs referenced in commit messages. Of course.

  • I’m kinda curious to see what would happen if I set up a custom slackbot response to the word “the”. Apart from losing Slack admin access, that is…

  • Looks at parse_blocks(). Looks at the tumblr block api. Looks back at parse_blocks(). Hmm.

  • Something I’ve learnt about myself recently is that I find end-of-life’ing software way more satisfying than releasing it.

  • I’m sorely tempted to add Space Karen to the see also section of Wikipedia’s Dunning–Kruger effect entry.

  • Does twttr.blog redirect to tumblr yet?

  • I am somewhat tempted to add commit-with-a-short-love-letter-to-css-specificity as a keyword on the WordPress bug tracker. I guess this is why I am not an admin on the WordPress bug tracker.

  • Most things in this world can be blamed on an Australian. https://theshot.net.au/politics/the-chaser-suspended-by-twitter-after-impersonating-donald-trump/

  • AI generated posts for LinkedIn all start “this isn’t really appropriate for LinkedIn but…”

  • OH: Can you screenshot that photo and send it to me?

    I’ve been thinking about this for 24 hours now.

  • Is it really day drinking if you’re waiting for npm install?

  • Does anyone know if GitHub are on the socials?

  • I suspect there are more meetings about porn at Tumblr than there are at Pornhub.

  • Breaking news: still dead.

  • I think this is the least subtle code I have ever written.

    namespace Run\This\In\Local\Development\Only\It\Is\Unsafe;

  • Has the media covered the Queen’s death last week? I haven’t seen a single story.

  • The Import from Movable Type Podcast will be the last podcast named for an admin feature in WordPress.

  • The border-inline-start-width-podcast will be the last podcast named for a css property.

  • Scheduling a blog post targeting one time zone, while the severs in another and your in a third is fun. Even after publication I am only pretty sure I got it right but not certain.

  • According to GitHub, last week’s maintenance and security releases brought the total number of minor and major WordPress releases to exactly 600. That seems like a lot. https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/

  • Last week a huge performance gain was committed to post queries in WordPress.

    It’s a complex change so help testing from hosts and developers before the next release would be great. If you find a bug, drop a note on the ticket. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22176

    MySQL performance graph showing a large drop off in the number of requests

  • While rebuilding my laptop I discovered fnm as an node version manager. The F stands for for fast, and they are not kidding it’s so much quicker than anything I’ve used in the past. https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

  • Day 5: I am so bored I have taken a RAT for something to do.

  • They call me Peter “4 jabs” Wilson. I reckon a one business hour turn-around on becoming eligible is pretty good.

  • I told the algorithm to create a playlist from Mad World. It’s grim. The big finish is Everybody Hurts.

  • Hmm, similar feels, another day.

  • Days since listening to Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: 0️⃣

  • You don’t say, really?!

    Scott Morrison instructed Border Force to reveal election day asylum boat arrival

  • So the 21st WordPress release I’ve contributed to drops tomorrow. Spoiler: several hundred people have done some lovely work.

  • “I don’t hold an office, mate, I lost my job”

  • Where the fuck is Casey Briggs?

  • From: do-not-reply@gov.au

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  • Error: Parameter must be instance of a string, string given.

    I love you PHP 5.6, I really do.

  • I’ve tried staying quiet about this but… it bothers me the only mention of security is the presumption a plugin will have flaws. Well, yes, if you prioritize the misspelling WordPress over escaping and sanitization, that’s exactly what will happen.

    https://poststatus.com/what-agencies-are-looking-for-in-your-code/

  • What you young’uns don’t understand is that CSS-Tricks used to be run by some guy called Chris as a side gig. I think he runs a farm out west these days.

  • I’m excited about this too, for a while I was getting daily review requests from Jonny & his team mates for one performance improvement or another. *Even better with a persistent cache.*

  • Me: Making architecture decisions for a CMS as popular as WordPress is really hard.
    CSS working group: Hold my beer! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/14/if-or-when/

  • When discussing differences in musical taste with your partner, it turns out “well, that’s because you’re older than me” is not the correct answer.

  • World: please do not be alarmed if you see an Australian post a photo of their 20-year-old selves smoking a bong. It’s actually pretty damn cool.

  • You can increase the diversity of applicants in a call for speakers with this one weird trick: paying your speakers. Include the amount in the CFP and reach out to underrepresented groups highlighting the honorarium. Read an @ffconf CFP and do that.

  • Games ending in le are to 2022 as startups ending in ly are to 2012.

  • Hey, how about we never forget and certainly never forgive Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters for promoting & fundraising for AIDS denialism. https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

  • Using six cell little killers for a Sudoku based multi-factor authentication challenge.

  • Why superannuation laws are stuffed.

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