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Sunday, January 8, 2017

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  • 10:23pm
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    35m
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    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Sun, Jan 8, 2017 6:18am -08:00
  • Ruby Magic, or why `params` is empty even when I don't set it

    I learned a very subtle Ruby trick today.The Ruby parser will create local variables for every variable that might be set in your code before any of it is run.irb(main):001:0> if false; x = 1; end
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    Sun, Jan 8, 2017 2:47pm -08:00 #ruby #sinatra
  • Day 19: Automatically fetching reposted content #100DaysOfIndieWeb

    Yesterday, I updated my website to show the full contents of reposts. Today, I took that to the next step, and I now automatically fetch the contents of reposts when they are made. I also expanded the repost display to include showing the photo if I reposted a photo!
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    Sun, Jan 8, 2017 3:29pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #p3k #indieweb
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    Day 19. Just to make sure I wasn't getting stuck attempting to make fake instruments sound real, today's song is super ethereal and lacking most things resembling instruments and rhythm. I have no idea what I might use this for in the future, but it was an interesting exploration of making a soundscape.
    Portland, Oregon
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    Sun, Jan 8, 2017 5:11pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
  • I completely agree with you. There are so many things that infuriate me about re... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
    "There are so many things that infuriate me about regular sites:
    - Images not having defined heights, leading to content jumping up as I'm reading
    - Ads loading and unloading, leading to the page jittering up and down erratically, making the content unreadable
    - Auto-playing videos: some start playing audio, some have the audio muted but still pause any music I have playing
    - Those ads that scroll up across the page (which wouldn't be a problem, but they scroll at a third of the speed that I drag them up at)
    - The "Read Full Story" buttons that animate the content downwards, freezing everything for a few seconds while the dumb animation plays
    - Web fonts taking an eternity to load, leaving me with no content for ten, fifteen, or more seconds
    - Web fonts loading unexpectedly and causing all the text to reflow, destroying my scroll position
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    Sun, Jan 8, 2017 8:29pm -08:00 #amp #web
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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