Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Specificity, My Old Nemesis, We Meet Again.

  • Hands down, my favourite feature hack of any application is Shifty Jelly’s Pocket Weather using notification badges to show the current temperature. I’m not sure what happens when the temp drops to freezing or below.

  • Just had a follow-up phone call, the very friendly (!) claims agent who’s taken over from a staff member that quite apologised. Cats and dogs living together.

  • Confession: I use a light editor.

    It all started when I needed it for copy-pasting code highlighting into keynote and I got hooked. Don’t do drugs kids.

  • The supported and unsupported logic in media queries is very strange:

    ✅ ||
    ✅ &&
    ✅ !
    🚫 ! ( a || b )
    ✅ ! ( a && b )
    🚫 ( a && ! b )
    ✅ >=
    🚫 >
    ✅ <= 🚫 < ✅ == ✅ != Bring on full calc support, bring on the syntax improvements.

  • I’m guessing disabling the redirect from Gmail to Inbox can be taken as a sign Google’s going to shut down Inbox.

  • Two of my favourite moments in Dear Evan Hansen are how angry @rachelbayjones sounds in Good For You just moments before breaking hearts on the couch. Thanks Rachel. 🛋

  • SBS selling Optus the World Cup rights only to be given them back is one of the all time great business decisions.

  • I was looking at the JIRA source code and found how they determine the markdown flavour to use on any one interface:

    Math.random()

  • Replies to insurance company request for further information with a passive aggressive “I’ve reattached the document”. They won’t notice or care, damn it.