Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • This is a good example of why I think AMP is harmful to the open web. Google penalises the better performing page by locking it out of the top stories carousel.

  • I’m a curious button and wanted to know the background of Cloudflare’s DNS server names. Turns out it’s a really nice method of verification in case multiple people add a domain to their account; I wish more providers would do this.

  • Pro tip: When setting a CDN’s origin server, point it to your current server rather than the one you migrated from last month.

  • A few people at @humanmadeltd have been working on hot module replacement when working with WordPress sites using Gutenberg. @kadamwhite‘s written up the process and shared some GitHub repos to get you started.

    Hot Module Replacement for Gutenberg Blocks

  • Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? Yes or nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah?

  • I believe it is a US Thanksgiving tradition for families to take passive-aggressive digs at each other beginning with “today I am thankful for…”.

    Today I am thankful for plugin developers who check for notices.

  • My work’s looking for a web engineer in the APC region. It’s fully remote, great benefits, you get to work with me (I’m delightful) and a great team (also delightful).

    https://humanmade.com/2018/11/15/join-us-as-a-web-or-senior-web-engineer-asia-pacific/

  • Tough day for the NAB CEO as his pay falls about a third, he now earns a mere 65 times the medium wage. Andrew is one of the real victims of the royal commission.

  • I made a weak joke about the marquee element last week but forgot to escape the version on my website.

  • Supporting Gutenberg’s standard, wide and full width alignments in modern browsers doesn’t require a media query. CSS Grid can just deal with it.

    The code is adapted from Rachel Andrew’s explainer for breaking out of the grid.