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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 […]

Occasionally I look at the theme for one of the first WordPress sites I developed. I look at my early PHP, my early CSS, my early JavaScript & my HTML about ten years into my career. The HTML has at least lost its font tags and table based layouts but my overall reaction is to […]

Someone has started the the best developers shit storm on Twitter. Again. The best developers are lucky enough to do work that pushes them to grow. One of my earliest jobs was at Rove Live. I thought I’d hit the big league but, thinking back, my code could have been better. I improved as a dev. I developed corporate […]

I enjoy public speaking. I am very thankful to James for years of gentle cajoling to get me on stage at the WordPress Melbourne meetup. I’ve realised the audience is at a meetup or conference to enjoy themselves, they’re on the speaker’s side and they want them to do well. The audience will forgive a speaker stumbling […]

The language of technology is easy. It’s evolving so new terms come in the lexicon gradually and we pick them up as they arrive. At least, that’s how I find it. I’ve grown up with tech – right back to the secondhand Apple IIe given to me as a kid and the World Wide Web […]

The new WordPress default theme includes a block of CSS to fix layout of the headers in browsers supporting the object-fit property. The CSS makes use of feature queries. It’s the first time a WordPress default theme has used @supports and I’m really pleased to see it. Despite wide browser support, feature queries are rarely seen in […]

I just spent an hour or so debugging some JavaScript. The code was simple, concatenate a string to form a selector: ‘#in-category-‘ . termId. Undefined. Always undefined. I started dumping all sorts of things in the console to debug. termId was defined. The code was passing through conditional statements correctly. I was just about to send […]

I’m not sure what bothers me the most. How quickly I got used to them, or their presence. The them I am referring to are the armed guards at the Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square. They’re armed with assault riffles. This freaked me out when I first passed the building. We have armed guards in Australia, […]

As we transition from HTTP 1.1 to HTTP 2, developers need to consider how the visitor’s protocol affects the performance of our sites. Code that improves performance over one protocol, can hinder performance over the other. HTTP2 is the first major update to the HTTP protocol in around 20 years, taking into account the way we […]

Friday, work published the post announcing I’ve joined Human Made. In a relatively short time at the new gig, I’ve started feeling quite at home, in no small part helped by the fact I already knew the Australian humans from within the Australian WordPress community. A lot of the Human Made staff globally contribute back […]