Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • I’ll be chatting about Imposter Syndrome at the Web Meetup in two weeks. Sign up and I’ll see you on the 11th.

     

  • After AHCA failed & various injunctions I’m applying to @nejsconf & hoping potus is further undermined.

    https://twitter.com/pwcc/status/843226629908451329

  • Sitting on the couch with the doors open & Mojo JuJu playing a set on the front lawn.

    Footscray is pretty cool.

    • In the 70s gay people could lose their livelihood if someone invaded their privacy and outed them.
    • The hanky code became a subversive part of gay (& kink) culture which allowed people to reveal themselves to people in the know without risking their livelihood. Different colours and pockets indicated preference.
    • These days it’s universally agreed that being straight or gay should not rightly affect someone’s livelihood.
    • Within the Drupal community, Larry Garfield has had to write about his preference for sub-dom relationships after others started outing him.
    • Even after he was repeatedly found not to have breached the community’s code of conduct he was forced out of the offical roles he had in the community.
    • I don’t think it’s anyone’s business what colour handkerchief people have, where they keep them but it seems Dries Buytaert and the Drupal leadership do.
    • Dries proudly claims these exclusionary practices are their values. By implication, invading people’s privacy and outing them do not fall outside these values.
    • Reading Larry’s and Dries’ posts, I can’t help but think there but for an accident of timing go I.

  • Today @tareiking answered a question by quoting lyrics from a musical. Not Hamilton but brainwashing is about baby steps.
    Yes. I’m gloating.

  • “Beethoven, he’s, like, some really famous classical music guy” – hilarious school kid on the 402.

  • Oh, that conference looks cool, I might put in a CFP.
    Dates: ✔️
    Where: 🇺🇸
    Nah 🤷‍♂️

  • At HM we work with many excellent people, quite pleased to have Mike join the team.

     

  • Me getting mildly sweary at #WCAkl2017, as captured by @kristarella

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/kristarella/33300538061/in/album-72157681393746245/

  • Even when I’m doing a code review over dinner I fucking love my job.