Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Do you know who’s a delight to work with? The WordPress.org plugin review team, that’s who. Super helpful with both code and readme review.

    ❤️ a good code review, they’re ?

  • It’s very hot in my office today and I am wearing a tank top. It looks very, very bad. It’s so bad I’m ignoring my personal brand: posting humiliating photos on the internet.

  • A web site becomes a web app when it makes use of history.pushState() but breaks the browser’s back button intermittently and completely breaks the forward button and keyboard shortcuts.

  • After a clear c-19 test a guy catches up on chores, hobbies and with friends before getting another test once he felt unwell. Vic gov describes him as a model employee and his travel log as better than CovidSafe. Cue bitchy article in The Age. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/living-for-the-weekend-infected-hotel-quarantine-worker-s-busy-itinerary-20210204-p56zk0.html

  • Waking up to a backward step on C-19 restrictions due to the Aus Open has me thinking about this analysis peice by @rwillingham last month. I’m a pretty rusted on ALP voter but boy howdy am I annoyed with @DanielAndrewsMP this morning. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-20/australian-open-quarantine-a-test-for-daniel-andrews-premiership/13070402

  • Eddie: How about I apologise if I offended anyone?
    @CollingwoodFC Spin Dr: No, people are wise that’s a non-apology
    Eddie: “The use of the word ‘proud’ was wrong”?
    Spin Dr: Yeah, that’s great, that will will help repair our brand.

  • Breaking: Ita Buttrose describes #4corners giving a sit-down interview to the Proud Boys as a “proud day for Collingwood”.

  • 4 Corners giving a sit-down political style interview to the proud boys was an egregious error of judgment.

  • Disney+ have emailed to tell me they’re introducing parental controls. Does that mean we can have versions of Folklore & Hamilton with the swears unmuted at long _______ last? Please?

    Not that I think it would alter the rating of the latter here. It’s already M rated because of all the people shooting each other dead.

  • Unworkable QR sign in privacy policy I’d like to see:

    Your data will be stored for the period recommended by the DHHS. Data will be shared with the DHHS upon request for contact tracing. This policy may not change at any time.

  • Small code changes can have a HUGE effect on performance. After trying an eleven line thought bubble, my test suite went from completing in 11.6 seconds to completing in 0.6 hours. Good work, Wilson. Five stars. Would thought bubble again.

  • A ticket I’ve been working on is the watership down of rabbit holes. While working on it, I’ve created about half a dozen tickets that are blockers. I’m very glad for stand ups at the moment because they remind me I’m making progress even if they feel like dead-ends.

  • Why is Melania dressed as a Dalek? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-26/donald-trump-sets-up-office-in-florida-impeachment/13092204

  • I can’t decide what I like more, people asking why something isn’t covered by the mainstream media and linking to a big four news site or linking to something called carowner-hoxe that habitually refers to the CCP virus.

  • Conclusion: people are the worst.

    Also, don’t read the comments. Why did I forget that?

  • Slightly tempted to work today and spend tomorrow’s 41C in the SE7EN sloth pose.

  • Professional PHP 6, First Edition

  • Biden and the one-world government will never tell you this, but the real reason the new whitehouse.gov uses WordPress is to celebrate 50,000 commits.

  • Everyone: he’s gone!

    Nerds: check out the UDS comment in the new whitehouse.gov’s source code. Oh, and he’s gone!

  • Only 9 more hours!

  • Has it been long enough to wear Rove Live long sleeve t-shirts as an irony as a lifestyle thing?

  • US politics is so broken, they have become so common that @KnottMatthew comments in passing that Republicans who voted for impeachment “likely face death threats”. https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/double-impeachment-a-permanent-stain-but-trump-still-gets-off-lightly-20210114-p56u0v.html

  • Good to see @jack & co are using the Lady Macbeth playbook. Great work team.

    https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1347684877634838528

  • Twitter and Facebook claiming they’re suspending Trump’s accounts for inciting violence is bullshit. They’re suspending his accounts to try and save face after the violence they’ve allowed him to incite for months has come to fruition.

  • Three years after I last checked-in, I’ve downloaded Swarm to keep a log of where I’ve been. I wish I could have an iota of faith in the iOS CovidSafe app.

  • It’s obvious 5r gives provides tools for and encourages Twitter spam (my fav is auto-replies offering to assist someone at AIOSEO or Yoast with search) but I can’t decide whether to block on follow or only if they DM or mention spam.

  • In today’s CSS bad take I learnt that Ethan, Nicole, Jen and Rachel are all junior developers despite changing the face of modern front-end web development. Good to know.

  • I’m trying to do a logic check on why the NSW gov is loosening restrictions for three days over Christmas (not even Boris has done that). The only thing I can come up with is that they are trying to limit rule breaking by relaxing them… but it still doesn’t seem logical.

  • From an open-source maintainer point of view, PHP 8.0 is, not to put too fine a point to it, a nightmare.
    – @jrf_nl

    Juliette Reinders Folmer has written an excellent post on the sudden lack of forgiveness in the newest version of PHP.

  • This NSW outbreak has my already plentiful anxiety sky rocketing again. A new feature is a salting of guilt because all my friends overseas have more to be afraid of than Australians.

  • Of the contributors to WordPress 5.6, 39% did so for the first time. Their contribution is now running on 6.7 million sites ? @AudrasJb has released his summery of contribution stats for WP 5.6.

    WordPress 5.6 Core Stats: contributions by country & company

  • “Peter force-pushed the branch from 123abcd to abc1234 one minute ago”

    Ugh, GitHub, I was trying to hide that console.log(). Thankyouverymuch.

  • I wonder if Dropbox have ever considered selling a service that does cloud storage only. I think it would be really popular.

  • Let’s all agree that the 2020 year in review articles, tv shows and blog posts can go unpublished.

  • Two hours! This is not a drill.

  • Very little of this seems sensible but especially not the 1,600 person stage, even if it ultimately only holds a tenth of that. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/what-will-bidens-inauguration-look-like-in-covid-19-pandemic/12943014

  • Bravo to whoever in the ABC newsroom came up with the headline “Donald Trump tells supporters he has ‘never lost an election’, in his first rally since losing the US election”. Savage.

  • Niche troll

    Docs, Tests: Correctly capitalize JavaScript.

    Correct Javascript to JavaScript within WordPress core ;)

    See #51800, #51802.

  • I really, really, really like Chassis. I needed to switch my wordpress-develop box to a different PHP version and to use multisite. It’s like the famous five minute install all over again.

  • In the last 24 hours, extra data has been added to the wp_after_insert_post action added to WordPress 5.6: it will now include the previous state of the post. Updated dev note:

    New action wp_after_insert_post in WordPress 5.6.

  • Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is 2021.

    Street art of a kangaroo in a Santa hat looking out a door at a sign that says 2021

  • A pinch and a punch for the 275th of March.

  • Teenage boy writes some letters

  • Let me use spaces in my credit card and phone numbers, you bastards. Let me paste, you bastards. Let me open links my way, you bastards.

  • Query Monitor: Keeping developers’ swear jars empty(ish) since 2013.

  • I think about Brett Sutton’s first tweet occasionally. Environmental health ✅; food safety: does having to close restaurants count??; communicable disease ✅✅✅. But probably not what he had in mind.

  • I am beginning to consider that maybe it was unwise to take my morning walk in this.

    weather satellite showing a large patch of rain centred on a location marker.

  • “Damn, I’ve busted my local server.”
    “Oh, I forgot to boot it”

    Every. Single. Day.

  • Never read your hero’s code.
    Never read your code.
    Never read code.
    Never code.

  • Remember when you’d see a name trending on Twitter and ask yourself whether they’d died rather than what they said this time? It cost us some childhood heros on the way but I miss those days.