13 years of contributing to WordPress
I received my first WordPress props thirteen years ago today, on July 11, 2011. It was for the second ticket I’d filed.
Category: General
Type declarations with WordPress filters
In a December blog post Juliette Reinders Folmer described the upgrade path to allow projects for supporting PHP 8 alongside older versions of PHP as a nightmare. Seeing it come up in my timeline again recently, I started thinking about the affects of type declarations on projects, especially those with a plugin architecture.
WordPress 5.6 released
WordPress 5.6 “Simone” has now been released and is available for download. For the first time, the release squad was made up entirely of people identifying as women or non-binary. In some corners of the internet this proved to be controversial.
This week I’m sick of it
Swings and roundabouts but this week I am sick of it. I’m sick of sanitising when I open the gate to our block of flats I’m sick of sanitising as I grab a take-away coffee I’m sick of sanitising as I enter the supermarket I’m sick of going shopping at 7am to avoid people I’m […]
Nick Cave’s stream is not the problem
I don’t think the stream, per se, was the problem with the Nick Cave concert last night. It’s was a Vimeo embed, they know how to stream and devices optimise for video. It’s the page around it that @dicefm needs to fix.
Vote Yes! Pull Request
Vote Yes! Pull Request is a small collection of custom styles to replace the approve button in Bit Bucket. ?️? Add the following to the bitbucket domain using Stylish. @import url(https://peterwilsoncc.github.io/vote-yes-pull-request/bb.css); Why? Because I am not one to let an offhand comment go unimplemented. Replaces ‘Approve’ button with ‘Vote Yes’ in bitbucket? 💯🌈💯 — Tarei […]
2015 in review
2015 was a good year, a lot of things going on professionally and personally. In crib note form, here are some of the highlights:
Speaking is not the only reason I get nervous at conferences
I used to get nervous in the weeks leading up to a conference talk because I was talking at a conference. These days, it appears I get nervous for an entirely different reason: casual homophobia. Unfortunately in my industry – web development – comments such as these are not rare transgressions.
CSSConf Australia ’15 – Day two summary
The second day of CSSConf Australia ’15 took place last Friday. The day started with Sara encouraging developers to switch to SVG rather than unsemantic CSS hacks, and finished with a call for the open-source community to welcome designers by Una. Here are my notes from day two.
CSSConf Australia ’15 – Day one summary
CSSConf Australia ’15 is on at the moment. The first day started with Matt reminding us to consider the human element of design, and finished with Ben showing how animation can be used to cheat time and add delight. Here are my notes from day one.