Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.

  • For the last week I’ve been pretty much limiting my news intake to exposure sites and restriction changes and it’s been glorious. Some other things have got through but I presume that Barnaby Joyce thing can’t be real ?

  • Small business accounting software is universally terrible. Yes, even the product you really like.

  • The unsung hero here is whoever set up the integration template as straight down the line text. Never include in-jokes or anything else that shouldn’t be public in test content.

  • Knock, knock.
    “Who’s there?”
    @auspost
    “I’ll be right out”
    Just kidding, I’m a contractor. I don’t knock on doors, I just fill in the card that you weren’t home and take your 20kg package to the post office in the neighboring suburb. Byeeee!

  • Some marketing dickhead is running anonymous billboards “Hang in There, Melbourne. Stay safe ❤️”. All it does for me trigger a nice big injection of early morning post-lockdown anxiety.

    I’m now fighting the urge to go back to bed for some cat cuddles.

  • Managing a WordPress site & the Docker container is not a frontend role, especially when it gets 300k visitors a month. Calling it such will get you a “there’s a plugin for that” attitude and if you’re lucky your site will be slow; unlucky & you’re on have you been pwned.

    yes, recruiter spam is making me angry.

  • Jab one ✅

  • WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Disabling notifications even disables App Store and O/S notifications.

  • WWDC announcement I’d like to see: No longer prompted to enable Siri every time you install a security update because you may have changed your mind since saying no when installing the last security update.

  • WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Apps now boot when the internet flakes out.

  • WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Peripherals work upon booting first time everytime allowing users to enter passwords.

  • While I guess it’s good the PM has acknowledged that maybe, possibly the vaccine roll-out is a race, it’s not like Min Hunt has planned for slow & incompetently. The feds remain the Sisyphus of vaccine roll-outs.

  • Every time I think it’s time to make the date input easier on my tveeder link generator an outbreak happens in Victoria and I dare not touch it. Conclusion it’s just gonna have to stay 2021-06-03 11:44 https://output.jsbin.com/nefuseq/

  • Why is #COVID19Vic trending when #COVic and #COVic19 are both available? Join the pundemic.

  • I have never been so excited to hear hold music as when I got through to the vaccination booking line about 30 minutes ago.

    Hearing the announcement to call back later can be dispiriting but keep trying 40-somethings. 1800 571 121 for the jab & a shorter telephone tree.

  • When the federal government says Job Keeper has served its purpose (either explicitly or in its actions), all I can think is the purpose was to determine the affect on their kind of people & their kind of voters.

  • For the #VictorianLockdown, here are the lyrics to the everything is shit song I sing when everything is shit:

    🎶 Everything is shit
    🎶 Everything is shit
    🎶 Oooh, everything is shit
    (repeat)

    It’s sung to the tune of whatever the fuck you want. You do you.

  • Vaccine hotline already overloaded. Announcement sounds like it comes from Telstra rather than DHS.

  • Tick: Responsive Web Design has now been a thing for slightly over half my career. I can still remember building my first responsive site (desktop first, that’s how re rolled back then) shortly afterwards.

    Old man shouts at cloud.

    We’ve sure come a long way since

    <TABLE cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=800></TABLE>
<CENTER>
Best viewed in Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape Navigator 4
</CENTER>

    Container queries will be the next big leap, I can’t wait.

  • Last night I dreamt I got my first AZ jab even though I’m not 50 enough to officially qualify. It was a good dream so I’m going to try my luck at a hub during the week. A long haul flight is riskier but doesn’t prevent C-19. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-23/under-50s-get-astrazeneca-vaccine-at-mass-hubs/100158348

  • I’m not a content strategist by any stretch of the imagination but if I was running the SBS Eurovision hub, I’d put the broadcast times clearly on the home page. Probably right at the top.

  • What job did you want when you were a child and has the modern web development ecosystem ever made you want to switch to it as a career? Yep, I’ve considered too.

  • Have you ever confused your cat by singing You Will Be Found at it because you’re excited about a movie? No, me neither.

  • I really like this take on what your home office should look like by @justintadlock because it acknowledges not everyone has a spare room and/or can afford their ideal setup. Most articles on the subject are written by people ignoring their privilege.

    A Laptop and a Dream: Your Home Office Should Meet Your Needs

  • Oh, I get it May the forth kind of sounds like may the force if you’re squinting and underwater.

  • While the third that left ought to be commended, remember that they’re the third that got a job offer or can afford unemployment during a pandemic. Please don’t judge the two thirds, as some (or many) may be lining up a job before they do the same.

  • Big Sur is to macOS as ME is to Windows.

  • Feature request: Allow notifications for X minutes after using the app.

  • This Basecamp memo reminds me of the worst talk I’ve seen. I was basically how to spin any team as diverse & claimed a white male team is diverse if they’re from different US states. (No names because I don’t think it’s what the conf organizers wanted & had reason not to expect.)

  • Any conversation about diversity at Basecamp can now be shut down by a white guy claiming it’s a societal pipeline problem.

  • I have real trouble thinking of a hashtag design example that will ever top Apple’s decision ports are ugly without considering the tangle of dongles it introduces.

  • I really wish @GitHub would add and document oEmbed endpoints for Gists. Mainly because it would be super handy but it would also be fun to see @WordPress committers race to commit this. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41206

  • I misread some graffiti this-morning as “vote farts”. Farts are funny so I probably would.

  • The ABS (or at least someone claiming to be them) keeps sending me letters for a financial survey addressed to an obligation ID using form letters that don’t contain my name. They can access the electoral roll but still insist on sending the perfect template for scammers.

  • Yesterday along with a bunch of other people, I worked on a minor WordPress release (upgrade now folks). Last night I did a count of what was released:

    • 10 versions of WordPress
    • 25 NPM packages

    I’m a little please with everyone involved.

    WordPress 5.7.1 Security and Maintenance Release

  • I use the correct quantity cream cleanser first time every time. Where’s my statue?

  • Anyway, this WIX/WP drama sure was fun.

    /me goes back to writing code that runs four in ten of the most visted web sites ??‍♂️

  • Does anyone else sing “lovely little pussy cat” to their cat in the tune of Alexander Hamilton each morning?