Peter Wilson

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  • 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:

    jk;afd;;k

  • 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.

  • 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