Peter Wilson

This is a long shot but I am looking for the post content and post meta for a Facebook oEmbed in WordPress before they closed their oEmbed endpoint behind a API token. This would be a FB post embeded in mid-2020 or earlier.

There's an urgent call for testing by hosting providers for the WordPress Real-Time Collaboration feature coming in WordPress 7.0. There are a few data structures being considered & the testing will help determine the best approach across a range of environments. make.wordpress.org/hosting/2026...

This is great, the eligibility rules have been changed to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Australia. When I donated plasma earlier this year, I found out I'm a universal blood donor. I've been told by friend to expect regular phone calls. Ironically, I'm disallowed by travel rules.

We will never get along if you can read the headline “Complaints about foul smells skyrocket in Melbourne’s west” without making a fart joke.

Curious about your (or another's) contribution history for WordPress? My contribution history tool now includes WordPress 6.9 in the results. peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...

AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to. peterwilson.me/~/f041176302...

Things I say in detailed technical conversations that I didn't have on my bingo card: "👨 🏻🐰👨 🏻 appears differently to 👨🏻🐰👨🏻 which would trigger a false support detection even though none of the dudes are wearing bunny ears". Anyway... detecting emoji support is complex.

I've added the plugin check action to my WordPress plugin template repo github.com/peterwilsonc... now that security reports are created for each plugin update. make.wordpress.org/plugins/2025... I've used the most basic configuration and will customise it based on each plugin's needs.

I watched the Hamilton the Musical episode of Hard Quiz last night and all I can think is how much of a waste of a subject it was that the contestant didn’t make it to the final round.

I'm thrilled to be speaking at Web Directions Enqueue, co presented by The Code Company. The line up is amazing and includes some of the best engineering minds in WordPress today. (BTW, there's a discount code in the Repository article!)

Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of day. No token/request hash needed. Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don't worry, I would never...). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.

I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they're by Thomas Snyder who's world renowned in Sudoku circles. Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.

Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers. "How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we're serious)?" I still occasionally think about how much I'd hate to work for those people.

Repost with a character that would make an excellent shitposter

There are admissions of guilt and then there's node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.

On #SurvivorAU last night, Parvati mentioned that she and David had played Deal or No Deal Island together. Fascinated by the concept, I looked it up and the details are just as terrible as the name suggests. Possibly even worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or...

An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.

I’m trying to figure out if it’s IndexNow or IndexNow®. I can’t find any registration details online but it’s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.

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WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open

"Reduces the number of database queries ... by 344 (347 queries down to 3)" is always nice to write in a commit message. Even if it is for a process that runs once during the lifetime of a site.

I just made the typo `npm ruin` and I think I'm in to the idea.

Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC

It has been 0️⃣ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.

“I am not the beta in this relationship” I try to convince myself as I open the bedroom blinds mainly so the cat can lie on the bed and have a good bake in full sun.

I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests had named them merge requests instead. It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push & pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.

Committing 7,696 images totaling over 30MB to an SVN server with a 258ms ping time can take a while.

I've released a new WordPress plugin: Local Twemoji. For sites running over a CDN, this provides a performance improvement by serving emoji fallback images from your own site. The perf improvement is due to the way modern browsers cache shared CDN assets.

“Where’s the cheese?”

When writing a WordPress plugin, I can never remember which headers go in the readme and which go in the main plugin file. To avoid mistakes in future, I decided to write some tests 🌻

I am still amused at how angry people got when the Wordle was VIVID.

I'm excited to see Web Directions & The Code Co presenting Enqueue, a developer focused conference for working on WordPress at scale. Get your tickets now while early bird pricing is available. Get your tickets TODAY if your professional development budget expires at the end of the financial year.

I'm going to write a blog post! ... Actually spends two days tinkering on my site.

Good lord, I’ve found a decent photo of me while giving a talk. My mouth doesn’t look like a dog’s bum, my eyes are open and my arms are in a normal position. flic.kr/p/2hDU58p

“Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. [...] The more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.” - @jono.id

I'm at my wet nerdiest when it comes to variant Sudoku (once you go variant you won't go back). I got in to it doing the daily Genuinely Approachable Sudokus (GAS), which were hiding out in a Discord. But now GAS's primary home is the open-web & I couldn't be happier www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/tag/gas/

In a throwback to my youth, I’m making curried sausages for dinner tonight. This is either going to be very good or very bad.

The Tony Awards are taking their sweet time putting up the official footage of the Hamilton reunion. They’re going to lose so many viewers to fan-cams.

I’ll write the LAPD investigation’s summary now: the officer was unaware the woman standing in front of a camera crew describing the situation was a journalist.

I’m just a few hours from heading up to Zurich to catch my flight back to Melbourne. Switzerland is a lovely country but it’s been a busy week so I’m looking forward to getting back home.

The nice local who helped out with the photo told me this was a recent addition to the banks of the Rhine. It's intended to be temporary but he is hoping they keep it.

I started my morning in Basel with a short walk around the city. There are some subtle signs that Eurovision was in town a couple of weeks ago.

The customs agent sympathising that I’d have to do all this travel again next week was both lovely and Not At All Helpful Right Now. But mainly lovely.

Friends I am hanging out with at WordCamp Europe this week, your job is to make sure the idiot Australian doesn’t step out in front of a vehicle because I’m looking the wrong way.

Just when I thought there was no way international travel could be more stressful, they started testing the emergency alarm systems. All of them.