Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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?

  • One of the nice things about sequential commit IDs in SVN is been able to reference the commit in the commit itself. It gives me a tiny thrill every time. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/50691

  • After upgrading iOS, Disney plus informs me my browser (Safari version null) is incompatible and I should update to the latest version.

    This is on their text only help pages, not the app. 5 stars, would watch again.

  • The cat is using the cat scratcher wrong. I’ve only ever seen this in cartoons.

    Cat rubbing its head against a cat scratching pad.

  • It’s day two of my holidays and I just booted my computer and immediately logged in to my email. Under normal circumstances this would be a bad thing, but I’m giving myself a pass as I was logging in to stop wordpress.org related folders from syncing to my phone.

  • I just read Laura Tingle’s piece from yesterday. Did the prime minister only learn this week that women often walk around with keys between their fingers at night? He really hasn’t been listening, I thought it was common knowledge.

  • Someone on Swarm has left an invaluable review of the local supermarket: it’s a lot of stuff. Thanks boss, you’ve been a great help.

  • You know how you occasionally see someone walking around with a clump of grass from the nature strip & think “that looks odd”. As a cat owner without a backyard I am now one of those people. And it feels odd too.

  • Download jQuery (14kb, Minified and Gzipped)

  • A few months ago on Julia Gillard’s podcast Amanda Vanstone asked “where are all the mediocre women” in parliament? The last few weeks have really underscored her point about the high number of mediocre men in parliament by comparison.

  • Just doing a git bisect over a sass binary change. Ask me anything.

  • Turns out my mood today is shitposting.

  • Are there any podcasts that are just a couple of guys winging it for about an hour on what they reckon about web development? Maybe getting another guy on occasionally for an interview?

  • Ease the hiring burden for senior, security conscious WordPress developers with this one weird trick: pay them as much as your other specialist developers.

  • Today is the 935th day in a row Scott Morrison hasn’t personally shot a protester while Prime Minister. Cheers, Scomo, you’re the greatest.

  • First piece of spam made it through to the new job’s inbox today. Apparently we were at the University of Florida together, go [sports team].

  • To avoid messing with build tools on a tiny file I wrote some actual ES5 last week. I typed var. Weird.

  • Blogs are the new vlog.

  • Major events are a weakness for governments (see cricket in NSW, tennis in Vic) so glad I decided to postpone my Sydney trip for Hamilton this week. Discussing this with a relieved friend who did the same.

    Anyone who’s ever met me knows I love the show so to be glad I’m not seeing it takes a lot.

  • I’ve been using a GitHub action at work to check the common PHP and readme headers match in WordPress plugins. I’m using it on ten or so plugins and finding it very helpful. https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/f677c5c401f896ee7fef668e72b06cd0

  • Doing pwcc things is my life now.

  • Now the cat has been introduced to the vacuum, I’ve moved it out of the laundry for storage so it’s not looming over the kitty litter like a clown in the gutter.

  • First time vacuuming with the cat in the house. I tried explaining she’d want to go upstairs when I started but she wouldn’t listen. I put her on the stairs and started cleaning. She learnt very quickly and I didn’t have to ask her to go downstairs when I went to do upstairs.

  • “Hey Siri, play New York New York” Random NY based radio station starts playing.

  • Should I just give up and alias `commmit`, `svn pull` and `git up`? Then there’s `npm commit` and `git run`…

  • This answers some of the questions about Gimlet that have come to me in the Bon Appétit series’ narration. That Reply All have allowed these to come up (they’re professionals) makes me wonder if they’ll address it. But I don’t want to hear from Gimlet.

    I want to hear the un-Gimlet-edited views of some of the Black & Brown people who have left the company on bad terms. Ideally via another media organization and licensed by Gimlet for unedited broadcast in the Reply All feed.

  • Current status: remembering how to set up for Zoom dinner party with @thewebprincess

  • Why do people put white-arse chicken in the oven when Paprika exists for the exceedingly lazy? I’m thinking of making a simple honey and mustard marinade while at lunch but probably won’t because I’m… You can see where this is going.

  • For reasons, I just noticed that this URL for an 2007 article in The Age still works. The URL scheme has completely changed but it still redirects because they’ve embraced the attitude good URL never die. It’s dandy. http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/goodbye-information-superhighway/2007/08/02/1185648044623.html

    The current URL scheme is much shorter and nowhere near as weird.

  • I wrote a little helper for WordPress sites using the Public Post Preview plugin to help ensure both @yoast and @aioseopack return noindex robots meta tags. The simplest method to install is putting it in the mu-plugins folder. https://gist.github.com/peterwilsoncc/15ac55f8df40b8dde1a65128914b3a42

  • After they leave politics, a number of Republican senators will do tell all interviews saying their biggest regret is not voting to impeach Trump. Do not forgive them.

  • The Blues Brothers as a comfort movie tonight. I can’t eat four fried chickens so having American style burgers instead, Blue Lou did not make them.

  • I can’t help but wonder if the non-tennis quarantine hotels were more crowded due to the Australian Open. Has that come up in Daily Dan series 2?