Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • World: please do not be alarmed if you see an Australian post a photo of their 20-year-old selves smoking a bong. It’s actually pretty damn cool.

  • You can increase the diversity of applicants in a call for speakers with this one weird trick: paying your speakers. Include the amount in the CFP and reach out to underrepresented groups highlighting the honorarium. Read an @ffconf CFP and do that.

  • Games ending in le are to 2022 as startups ending in ly are to 2012.

  • Hey, how about we never forget and certainly never forgive Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters for promoting & fundraising for AIDS denialism. https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

  • Using six cell little killers for a Sudoku based multi-factor authentication challenge.

  • Why superannuation laws are stuffed.

    1/1,241

  • Apparently when @ato_gov_au recovers unpaid super from previous years, it counts toward the super cap for the year in which it’s recovered. Thus your former employer gets to screw you over again when the ATO forces them to do the right thing.

    Check your super, folks.

  • Suddenly having to maintain a website everyone in the world visits daily vs selling at peak zeitgeist, buying some nice things and not having to maintain a website everyone in the world visits daily.

    I can see why some people are so mad.

  • I keep getting emails about removing negative online reviews.

    Have I been Justine Sacco’ed and not noticed?

  • Discussing the relative merits of software projects and my brain is “yes, you will listen to Nik Kershaw now”.

  • For the first time in a couple of years I have a talk idea I want to spend the time on. Little desire to either deliver on zoom or attend a crowded conference centre though.

  • I’ve muted five consecutive green block emoji. What up losers?

  • #BREAKING At least one journalist published the wrong draft atop the home page. I want screenshots, dammit.

  • Actual Australian citizens with actual Australian passports have been waiting two years for a federal court hearing to be allowed back in to the country they live in. Think about that as the rich and famous get two in one week.

  • This week I’m excited to start a new role at @10up as a Lead Engineer on their Open Source Practices team. The company is donating about half my time to work on @WordPress and related projects as part of their Five for the Future contribution of around 160 hours a week.

  • Sound editors able to mute 15,000 people chanting “fuck off Djokovic” should send their applications to careers@tennis.com.au

  • You can only keep one, #eurovision edition: Petra Mede vs Ruslana.

    Who and why?

  • Congratulations @zachleat and contributors for Eleventy 1.0. As a frequent @WordPress contributor, I have learnt and hope to continue learning from you.

  • Excitement of starting the new job tomorrow vs disappointment a month of sleeping in, reading, eating and naps is coming to an end.

  • I will judge you if you fly the national flag on your boat rather than the maritime flag. Bloody Sunday sailors.

  • a) Gizmo kind of shits me; and b) never mess with Billy’s mum, she will cut you with a knife.

  • Yippee Ki Yay, motherfucker.

  • The previous owner of my .com.au domain is still giving it out as their email address six years later.

    At what point is is ok to impersonate them and reply with financial advice?

  • Boosted. ?

  • I’m on holiday until I start a new job early next year. I’m guessing State of the Word can wait?

  • Rescheduled my booster from next month to later this week. ?x3 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-12/booster-rollout-fast-tracked-as-data-reveals-omicron-immunity-de/100694070

  • Thinking about this idiocy again in the context of my week: by embracing the idea that I have no idea what I’m doing with some code this-morning, I’m going to learn something new as a result in the next few days.

  • Does lifehacker.com.au have a hack for their site to disable infinite scrolling so you can can click the links in their footer?

  • Not blackmail, not discrimination, simply the consequence of a bad choice.

  • I get unreasonably excited about wearing leather shoes these days and this week I’ll get to wear them two or three times!

    I know I could wear them in the home office but that’s not something that works for me.

  • Typecasting edge cases sure are fun.

    console.log( !! '0', !! '0.0', '0' == '0.0' ); // (JS) true, true, false

var_dump( !! '0', !! '0.0', '0' == '0.0' ); // (PHP) false, true, true

    I’m not sure there is a right answer here.

  • I used Yahoo! when it was on a .edu domain.

    https://twitter.com/trumanboyes/status/1462541668138164229

  • Decades later, the Colin Hay Overkill opener for Scrubs season two is still great.

  • YouTube reaction videos but it’s developers reading their own three year old code.

  • For the first time since March 2020 the rain has beaten me and I’ve given up on my morning walk.

  • I just did that slightly silly looking thing of half waving at someone before realising it wasn’t the friend I thought it was. The friend I was thinking of lives on another continent. ?

  • Is there a slack or discord sole traders can use to scream about superannuation rules for sole traders? It was fixed so sole traders can at least pay super tax free but there’s extra paperwork to deduct the contributions you paid in as deductible. It’s so fixin’ fixed!

  • I like writing in the WordPress block editor.

    At my last job for @theage, @smh, @FinancialReview, the journalists who got to use the block editor loved it but not all article types had been moved across as of Oct last year.

    As you’ll see in a talk I did a while ago, the stack is complicated. It kinda needs to be for some of the most popular sites in the country. Very. Complicated.

  • Entertaining myself by checking my spam folder to see how many unsolicited emails I get about joining a hosting company’s affiliate program, so far it’s six. The company is also known for selectively quoting developers to make it appear they endorse their product. All class.

  • My hobby is waiting for client side rendering to comple

  • These voter ID laws the Morrison govt have proposed are truly reprehensible.

    Not only will they suppress votes, the people who have had their votes suppressed will then be fined for failing to vote.

    All this for an imaginary problem of fraud which the AEC says doesn’t exist.

  • It’s bad enough that flying in-and-out of the country is fine if you’re one of the biggest arseholes in showbiz wanting to perform a self indulgent monologue in a TV studio but a normie returning home to reduce their risk during a pandemic is somehow forbidden.

  • Having pulped most Australians’ passports, I will really lose my shit if a vaccination exemption is made for tennis players. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/australian-open-tennis-vaccination-policy-not-yet-settled/100564984

  • What advice were you given early in your career that you’ve ignored, sometimes for the better, sometime for your detriment? Mine’s to never write a CMS.

  • MagSafe connectors seem like a really good idea in case someone trips on a power cable. I’m surprised no one’s thought of them before.

  • The Internet is conspiring to tempt me to shout at this cloud. Don’t make me post a thread, Internet, I will do it. It’s hard being right all the time.

  • For a bug I am working on, debug tools are triggering the observer effect thus resolving the bug. I will never complain about a simple timezone or caching issue again.

  • Turns out telling office types complaining about working from home on LinkedIn they’re self entitled and lucky to be earning an income does not drive engagement. Maybe I should have included a graphic: ? if you need to learn your privilege.

  • Would it be a sign of too much time spent alone in lockdown to give your cat the nickname Bird and to subsequently put bird seed on your shopping list to indicate cat food?

    This is, of course, a hypothetical. A hypothetical I am asking for a friend.

  • Victorians for when we hit 80% later this week: https://2kmfromhome.com/15km