Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 1) Google problem
    2) Highest result is from Stack Overflow
    3) Highest voted answer is a friendly “dumb question, idiot, google it”
    4) Click through to second highest Google result, also from SO
    5) Closed as duplicate.

  • Just got into an argument about who’s the best Schuyler sister while waiting for the train. Oh dear. #AndPeggy

  • Hi my name is Peter and my hobby is starting fights about open-sources licenses while I wait for VMs to provision for what feels like the hundred and fiftieth time today.

    So, the BSD+ Patents license: a great way to contribute to OS, or the greatest?

  • Hi my name is Peter and my hobby is starting fights about open-sources licenses while I wait for VMs to provision for what feels like the hundred and fiftieth time today.

    So, the GPL: a great license or the greatest?

  • Starting to organise some meetup visits to present my new talk “Click bait title: clearer and slightly more detailed sub-title” around Melbourne next month.

  • You: worrying about nuclear war
    Me: making rabbit puns on a pull request.

    It’s my contribution to the bugs fix.

  • (I’m choosing to ignore the merge conflict artefacts in the theme’s style.css)

  • Checking Salt Lake City tour dates for Hamilton the Musical. Ooh, I recognise the Fairy (Male) test in the HTML header. ?‍♂️

  • In general, though, Broadway ticket sales are broken. It doesn’t help that Ticketmaster is conflicted by selling on the secondary market and taking coin from scalpers. That’s a big player with little motivation to fix it.

  • This year I decided to lean in on the Broadway nerd thing. I’ve since learnt about scalping algorithms; ticket allocation juggling between broadway.com (approx 25% fees) & the primary reseller (much lower fees). Much better at getting list price & paying the artist.