Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Decades later, the Colin Hay Overkill opener for Scrubs season two is still great.

  • YouTube reaction videos but it’s developers reading their own three year old code.

  • For the first time since March 2020 the rain has beaten me and I’ve given up on my morning walk.

  • I just did that slightly silly looking thing of half waving at someone before realising it wasn’t the friend I thought it was. The friend I was thinking of lives on another continent. ?

  • Is there a slack or discord sole traders can use to scream about superannuation rules for sole traders? It was fixed so sole traders can at least pay super tax free but there’s extra paperwork to deduct the contributions you paid in as deductible. It’s so fixin’ fixed!

  • I like writing in the WordPress block editor.

    At my last job for @theage, @smh, @FinancialReview, the journalists who got to use the block editor loved it but not all article types had been moved across as of Oct last year.

    As you’ll see in a talk I did a while ago, the stack is complicated. It kinda needs to be for some of the most popular sites in the country. Very. Complicated.

  • Entertaining myself by checking my spam folder to see how many unsolicited emails I get about joining a hosting company’s affiliate program, so far it’s six. The company is also known for selectively quoting developers to make it appear they endorse their product. All class.

  • My hobby is waiting for client side rendering to comple

  • These voter ID laws the Morrison govt have proposed are truly reprehensible.

    Not only will they suppress votes, the people who have had their votes suppressed will then be fined for failing to vote.

    All this for an imaginary problem of fraud which the AEC says doesn’t exist.

  • It’s bad enough that flying in-and-out of the country is fine if you’re one of the biggest arseholes in showbiz wanting to perform a self indulgent monologue in a TV studio but a normie returning home to reduce their risk during a pandemic is somehow forbidden.

  • Having pulped most Australians’ passports, I will really lose my shit if a vaccination exemption is made for tennis players. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/australian-open-tennis-vaccination-policy-not-yet-settled/100564984

  • What advice were you given early in your career that you’ve ignored, sometimes for the better, sometime for your detriment? Mine’s to never write a CMS.

  • MagSafe connectors seem like a really good idea in case someone trips on a power cable. I’m surprised no one’s thought of them before.

  • The Internet is conspiring to tempt me to shout at this cloud. Don’t make me post a thread, Internet, I will do it. It’s hard being right all the time.

  • For a bug I am working on, debug tools are triggering the observer effect thus resolving the bug. I will never complain about a simple timezone or caching issue again.

  • Turns out telling office types complaining about working from home on LinkedIn they’re self entitled and lucky to be earning an income does not drive engagement. Maybe I should have included a graphic: ? if you need to learn your privilege.

  • Would it be a sign of too much time spent alone in lockdown to give your cat the nickname Bird and to subsequently put bird seed on your shopping list to indicate cat food?

    This is, of course, a hypothetical. A hypothetical I am asking for a friend.

  • Victorians for when we hit 80% later this week: https://2kmfromhome.com/15km

  • ABC News has done a live cross to the MCG for two nights running. An empty MCG.

  • Walking around the ‘hood this-morning and I think it’s fair to say everyone if Footscray is excited about the grand final tonight.

  • When can we expect locusts to complete the whole end-of-times vibe?

  • I’m up to date on Ted Lasso, have finished both the US Office and Schitt’s Creek. What else is good and has heart?

  • I have quite mixed feelings about nesting coming to native CSS. A big pro is reduced asset sizes but it can lead to bloated specificity when applied without due consideration of the selectors final form.

  • My career changed for the better working at HM/Altis. I was pulled to country’s most interesting CMS project, and subsequently pulled to my five-year-goal gig. Telling Ryan he’s wrong (often) is appealing, but professional growth has its benefits too.

  • Turns out the most lockdown activity is not the sourdough starter, nor is it the home haircut (yawn, even the Premier has done that). It’s the zoom call between your phone and computer to evaluate said haircut.

  • Unusually for me, I binged the first season of Ted Lasso in 24 hours from Friday night. I woke this-morning to see a headline suggesting some people don’t like it and I can’t even…

  • It’s day 4️⃣4️⃣ of resisting shouting at a particular cloud and I’m a little proud of myself. Stupid cloud.

  • When a supermarket becomes a T2 exposure site, are @ALDIAustralia, @Coles or @woolworths paying their staff to get tested and for any shifts they miss while they’re required to isolate? The same applies for all casuals exposed at work but supermarkets are listed almost daily.

  • Never watching a presser again and instead spending the time having cat cuddles. Discuss.

    FWIW, the last Daily Dan I watched was actually a Merlino in the Morning. Recommended, five stars.

  • ABC News headline: Should Victorians give up hope of restrictions easing anytime soon?

    This is the exception that proves Betteridge’s law.

  • My garlic multiple generally runs at two but when I’m using a food box service is usually four but can be as high as six or even eight.

    Garlic multiple: the amount used vs the amount a recipe suggests.

  • I’ve been strict about being a 1x dev for a few years. On a Very Big Project a few years ago, I was proud some other team members followed suit. I did some long days to increase US cross-over but buggered off early on Fridays to make it up.

    https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1431366916489220100

    I don’t think I ever told the client about the shorter Fridays, but I also reckon they were smart enough to pick up that the guy doing 40/hrs of code review each week never sent anything late Fridays.

    Fun fact: I started being strict about it after a leaving a job in which the boss would schedule projects so I had to work seven days a week.
    He got shitty when it made me sick and I became a .1 dev for a while as a result. I left shortly after that, go figure…

  • The amount of shit Leigh Sales cops for being a Liberal Party stooge is only equaled by the amount of shit she cops for being a Labor stooge. A journo has to be pretty good at their job to piss off everyone.

  • I keep reading the milk crate challenge uses 30 milk crates. This bothers me because THIRTY IS NOT A TRIANGULAR NUMBER.

  • One of the great things about my job is getting to work with both @jrf_nl and @hellofromTonya. Waking up to a code review request from one or the other is guaranteed to put me in a good mood for the day.

  • I’m quite enjoying journalists enjoying throwing around the phrase shitty choices with gay abandon while they can.

  • Stop @capitalp_dangit, just stop.

    The WordPress ecosystem’s obsession with case is one of the ugliest things about it. It’s unhelpful and unwelcoming and simply needs to stop.

  • The greatest compliment I have received in a professional setting is that I swear like a journalist. I should add this to my LinkedIn.

  • How newsreaders and reporters manage to avoid swearing when announcing shitty lockdowns are extended is a true sign of their professionalism/the Valium kicking in. Lockdowns are no less shitty for their necessity.

  • Weeks later this article still pisses me off. I know it’s meant to be light hearted but read the room, mate. https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/we-re-sorry-we-looked-down-on-you-victoria-see-you-on-the-other-side-of-lockdown-20210709-p588d8.html

  • I haven’t even finished the mixed dozen I ordered at the start of the last lockdown.

  • Odd that Australia Post never sends me satisfaction surveys when the contractor dumps the card in the letterbox without ringing the bell. You’d almost think someone was trying to rig the results.

    Cranky Peter is cranky.

  • Banks: To avoid phishing be careful about links in emails appearing to come from us

    Also banks: sends email with click tracking via c_135792468.open_count1235.io

  • When @syedbalkhi suggested a plugin creating a comment moderator role, I thought that should be simple enough with a few filters. I was totally wrong but I’m really pleased with the final product and am glad we were able to share it for others to use.

  • Two weeks since my second jab. Happy immunity day to me.

  • It’s pretty cool how the NSW government waited until the federal government increased financial support before locking down properly and Victoria is now in the Morrison/Frydenberg/Berejiklian lockdown as a result. I’m sure glad JobKeeper has served its purpose.

  • Ever so tempted to order a finish at home set menu for two for one for some comfort eating tomorrow night.

  • Hey Victoria, what’s for lunch on this first day of lockdown?

    ❌ Something healthy
    ✅ Something unhealthy
    ❓ Day-drinking

  • A few hundred close friends have been making a thing, this is your last chance to test prior to the release of WordPress 5.8 next week.

  • Note to self: Stop considering writing your own.