Pete Nelson

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Senior Web Engineer at 10up, Bacon Ipsum creator, WordPress code wrangler, craft beer hunter, whisky/bourbon drinker
Bacon Ipsumhttps://baconipsum.com
Githubhttps://github.com/petenelson
Lives InAustin TX
@ericmann I'll be there, doing non-WCUS stuff for the most part, but will be around.
Is it canon that Bacon Ipsum exists in the Star Wars universe? https://baconipsum.com/2023/04/bacon-is-the-way/
Bacon is the way. - Bacon Ipsum

I recently received and email titled “You’re in Star Wars” and it caught my eye. In The Mandalorian season 3, episode 6 (Chapter 22: Guns for Hire), there’s a scene with a lot of Aurebesh on a screen, which is … Continue reading →

Bacon Ipsum

Do you need to generate sample text?
Do you not know latin?
Do you like food?

If so, allow me to introduce you to *bacon ipsum* (https://baconipsum.com): "a meatier lorem ipsum generator", written by Pete Nelson (@codegeekatx)!

Vegetarian and vegan alternatives are available, but he refuses to add fish, on the basis that he doesn't like it, so another person implemented https://tunaipsum.com...

Whimsical projects like this make me smile :)

#bacon
#justbecause

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@chris A client wanted something in UAT this week, which we did. 95% sure it doesn't get approved and pushed to prod until 2023.

You are not perfect.

You write code.

It stands to reason that you, an imperfect human, will at some point create imperfect code.

It is not a personal attack or even a claim of your own negligence that you wrote some bad code. It just means...

Take a DEEP breath...

Ready?

It means you are HUMAN.

Be kinder to yourself and to everyone else who makes a mistake. As long as you're learning and improving, you're gonna be okay.

My Thursday so far
@SleepyCatten Some people are "worried" because it looks like more and more kids are becoming trans and/or non-binary nowadays. But the simple answer is: it used to be much more repressed. The same thing happened when schools stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand. "Suddenly" more and more kids were lefthanded. But eventually it hit a plateau at 9-10%. It's not that there weren't any lefthanded kids before - they were forced into invisibility.

:(

Hardcoding secrets is not a good thing.

How to stop it?
Secrets Management and Secrets Detection.
I am actually doing a whole webinar about this on Wednesday, 11/30 with @doppler

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/secrets-management-with-doppler-and-gitguardian
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RT @gwendallecoguic
New GitHub search is 🔥🔥🔥
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