Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • On the topic of the WP download counter, it’s kinda amazing that these 244 people have code running on over a million sites after just six or so hours.

    https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/1070811042685562885

  • My deploy script pulls WordPress down from GitHub so it doesn’t get included in the download counter. A part of me wonders if I should include curl -I https://wordpress.org/latest.zip as part of the process.

  • It looks like https://abc.net.au has quietly gone secure by default recently. I’m not sure when but it’s great to see and a huge achievement for a site with so much content.

  • If you deploy arrow functions, you can certainly deploy

    (function(c){
  c.add('js');
  c.remove('no-js')
})(document.documentElement.classList)

  • 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.