Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • If you’re interested in trying Gutenberg but one or two post types aren’t ready, don’t let it stop you. There’s a filter for that and it’s nine lines of code to work around.

     

  • “Bank-grade security” is actually the worst. Common password limits are a maximum length of 16 or fewer characters, preventing the use of symbols, DOB password defaults. No wonder things like this can happen.

  • Oh honey, no.

  • I tried the Freedom app to block distractions, apparently I signed up for dozens of drip emails and a modal that forces me to their website on every boot.

    It’s worse than the distractions I am trying to avoid so I deleted it from my account.

  • Breaking: Dangerous anti-vaccine propagandist distances himself from dangerous white supremacy propagandist.

  • Eventually everyone will create a new Markdown flavour and promote it as the source of truth.

  • Peter Dutton’s values 101:

    Just: imprisoning someone fleeing a war zone
    Unjust: deporting the middle class breaching their visa to work for his mates

    Just: bakers being homophobic
    Unjust: 70% of Australians disagreeing about the bakers

  • I find it surprising how many CSS articles reverse media queries incorrectly.

    To reverse @media (min-width: 5em)

    🚫 @media (max-width: 5em)
    ✅ @media not all and (min-width: 5em)

  • What was your first job out of high school?

  • Nothing slows you down working on a PR like finding code to work around a major bug you helped introduce.