Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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?

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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/