Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • I have quite mixed feelings about nesting coming to native CSS. A big pro is reduced asset sizes but it can lead to bloated specificity when applied without due consideration of the selectors final form.

  • My career changed for the better working at HM/Altis. I was pulled to country’s most interesting CMS project, and subsequently pulled to my five-year-goal gig. Telling Ryan he’s wrong (often) is appealing, but professional growth has its benefits too.

  • Turns out the most lockdown activity is not the sourdough starter, nor is it the home haircut (yawn, even the Premier has done that). It’s the zoom call between your phone and computer to evaluate said haircut.

  • Unusually for me, I binged the first season of Ted Lasso in 24 hours from Friday night. I woke this-morning to see a headline suggesting some people don’t like it and I can’t even…

  • It’s day 4️⃣4️⃣ of resisting shouting at a particular cloud and I’m a little proud of myself. Stupid cloud.

  • When a supermarket becomes a T2 exposure site, are @ALDIAustralia, @Coles or @woolworths paying their staff to get tested and for any shifts they miss while they’re required to isolate? The same applies for all casuals exposed at work but supermarkets are listed almost daily.

  • Never watching a presser again and instead spending the time having cat cuddles. Discuss.

    FWIW, the last Daily Dan I watched was actually a Merlino in the Morning. Recommended, five stars.

  • ABC News headline: Should Victorians give up hope of restrictions easing anytime soon?

    This is the exception that proves Betteridge’s law.

  • My garlic multiple generally runs at two but when I’m using a food box service is usually four but can be as high as six or even eight.

    Garlic multiple: the amount used vs the amount a recipe suggests.

  • I’ve been strict about being a 1x dev for a few years. On a Very Big Project a few years ago, I was proud some other team members followed suit. I did some long days to increase US cross-over but buggered off early on Fridays to make it up.

    https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1431366916489220100

    I don’t think I ever told the client about the shorter Fridays, but I also reckon they were smart enough to pick up that the guy doing 40/hrs of code review each week never sent anything late Fridays.

    Fun fact: I started being strict about it after a leaving a job in which the boss would schedule projects so I had to work seven days a week.
    He got shitty when it made me sick and I became a .1 dev for a while as a result. I left shortly after that, go figure…

  • The amount of shit Leigh Sales cops for being a Liberal Party stooge is only equaled by the amount of shit she cops for being a Labor stooge. A journo has to be pretty good at their job to piss off everyone.

  • I keep reading the milk crate challenge uses 30 milk crates. This bothers me because THIRTY IS NOT A TRIANGULAR NUMBER.

  • One of the great things about my job is getting to work with both @jrf_nl and @hellofromTonya. Waking up to a code review request from one or the other is guaranteed to put me in a good mood for the day.

  • I’m quite enjoying journalists enjoying throwing around the phrase shitty choices with gay abandon while they can.

  • Stop @capitalp_dangit, just stop.

    The WordPress ecosystem’s obsession with case is one of the ugliest things about it. It’s unhelpful and unwelcoming and simply needs to stop.

  • The greatest compliment I have received in a professional setting is that I swear like a journalist. I should add this to my LinkedIn.

  • 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.