Aaron Parecki

Friday, August 2, 2013

bicycle

10 min

1.4 miles

bicycle

12:31am
Asleep

7:02am
Awake

6h 31m
Slept

23m
Awake for

2h 35m
Deep Sleep

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 7:02am -07:00
157.5lbs
Weight

18.5%
Body Fat

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 7:12am -07:00
David Lednik https://twitter.com/DavidLednik • Aug 2
@Esri @aaronpk think the first code snippet has an error: tiledMapLayer(url should be baseUrl instead of just url ;)

@DavidLednik Thanks, good catch!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 8:32am -07:00
Work to home

Ride

1.39mi
Distance

9:59
Duration

8.3mph
Avg Speed

6:49pm
Start

6:59pm
End

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 6:59pm -07:00
155.7lbs
Weight

17.1%
Body Fat

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 7:01pm -07:00
The Google Voice iPhone app found a very clever way to make calls.

When calling someone, it used to first call you, you'd answer and then it would ring the other person.

Now it seems to make a request to the GV servers and dynamically allocate a phone number to your target, then it tells your iPhone to dial the temporary number which they forward on to your target's phone number.

The end result is seamless! Go to the GV app and dial a number, and it Just Works™

Portland, OR, USA

2 replies

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 8:59pm -07:00 #googlevoice
Nick Furness https://twitter.com/geeknixta • Aug 3
@aaronpk Cool, right? Been doing that for a while. In theory can reuse #s & call direct by tying to caller your IDs. Have yet to test that…

@geeknixta Awesome! I just updated the app last week. If I had known this was part of the app update I would have updated much sooner!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:21pm -07:00
http://werd.io/view/51fc8728bed7de0e527fc0df

@benwerd Yeah Android tends to be more capable for things like that. Sometimes I'm amazed with what Google can get away with being an arms length developer on the iPhone.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:32pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk doesn't calling a number via iOS SDK bring up the dreaded "call" dialog?

@FarshadNayeri evidently not. It launches the regular iOS phone app but jumps into it having already pressed the "call" button.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:46pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk doesn't calling a number via iOS SDK bring up the dreaded "call" dialog?

@FarshadNayeri I think it just opens a URL like tel:1-503-555-1212, see: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:49pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk right. not exactly seamless http://t.co/XxamLRI0hu

@FarshadNayeri it doesn't show that prompt, just jumps straight to the phone. Maybe because it's coming from a native app and not from Safari?

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:53pm -07:00
https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/363522248734294016

@rothgar I remember saving the generated numbers from the SMSs it sent back in like 2009. In my experience the numbers would last a while but not forever. Seemed to assign a different number to a person after a couple months. Haven't tested that theory since 2009 so it may be different now.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:53pm -07:00
@benwerd @t Would love to get your thoughts on http://indiewebcamp.com/indieweb-messaging! Care to take a stab at an implementation with me next week in SF?

Portland, OR, USA

2 replies

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:56pm -07:00 #indieauth #indieweb
https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/363523797304877056

@rothgar sweet, that's a pretty good track record. I may try that again then!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 9:59pm -07:00
https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/363524822321463296

@rothgar Not sure what you mean? I've only sent SMSs from the GV app or GV web page.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:02pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk right. not exactly seamless http://t.co/XxamLRI0hu

@FarshadNayeri lol, it's actually described right in the screenshot you linked! "When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native application, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user." Awesome!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:05pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk non sequitor, why include a twitter card with each of your tweet that repeats the tweet?

@FarshadNayeri heh, experimenting, still some glitches. It's nice when my post is longer than Twitter's limit so you can see more inline, but yes it's redundant when they are identical. Check out the #indieweb wiki for more background info: http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:10pm -07:00 #indieweb
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk Tweets are short for a reason. :-) Cards are supposed to augment & annotate, not replicate. Also self-referencing is confusing.

@FarshadNayeri If Twitter had a field to indicate the canonical URL of a post like App.net does I wouldn't need to put the link at the end. I may also then be more inclined to respect Twitter's length limit. Will take your feedback under consideration though. Thanks!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:24pm -07:00
http://werd.io/view/51fc92bbbed7de0e525bf4df

@benwerd heh, I recently started wearing a #Pebble and every time my phone rings it freaks me out cause my wrist and pocket both buzz!

Portland, OR, USA

1 reply

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:25pm -07:00 #Pebble
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk true but auto-embedding links and cards works against the reader (at least *this* reader.)

@FarshadNayeri I may be a bit overzealous in my use of twitter cards. I'll see about scaling it back to only posts that have additional content as well as articles and other long-form content on my site. Thanks!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:33pm -07:00
Farshad Nayeri https://twitter.com/FarshadNayeri • Aug 3
@aaronpk yeah, great idea for posts. We've been playing with Player Cards for @pixxa urls. How hard/long was the twitter approval?

@FarshadNayeri There's a validator tool you use to preview your cards, then you can submit for approval there: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator It took a couple weeks for them to approve it.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:40pm -07:00
http://werd.io/view/51fc99b8bed7de37241f7e89

@benwerd oh totally. When someone calls my work phone it rings my desk phone, computer, cell phone, and pebble watch. I would do something about that if I actually got calls more often.

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:51pm -07:00
http://erinjo.idno.co/view/51fc9bddbed7de3a70df1b13

@erinjo Don't think I can help you there. GV can't really work with two different numbers forwarding to the same phone. Also I fixed the shortlinks, thx!

Portland, OR, USA

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:38pm -07:00