Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • 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.