Aaron Parecki

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

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  Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 5:19am -08:00
• Henrique Dias https://hacdias.com/   •   Jan 22

  Hey Aaron! What software/library are you using to generate those maps with your location? Can they be considered heat maps? And what about the animated video?
  

  It's all a giant pile of PHP code I wrote ages ago, it's not even map-projection-aware it just plots on a 2D canvas. The animation is basically a timelapse of a bunch of frames of that same script played in a row.

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:20am -08:00
• Hardening Refresh Tokens (leastprivilege.com)

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:49am -08:00 #oauth #security
• K. Mike Merrill https://twitter.com/kmikeym   •   Jan 22

  Like Netflix I also use my own private internal measurement that I only occasionally release for stats and yesterday I had 87,000,000,000 views on my website. https://buff.ly/30HVBXk

  
  

  the guy that runs your website must be really good

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 7:10am -08:00
• Brian Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/therealfitz

  Wow. Just got a giant "Fuck you for buying a bunch of our shit in the early days" email from @Sonos.
  
  /cc @internetofshit

  

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Tue, Jan 21, 2020 4:23pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 7:48am -08:00)
• Aaron Bradley https://twitter.com/aaranged   •   Jan 22

  I know that you're a huge microformats fan Kevin, but among other things: 1) they're not remotely expressive enough for contemporary structured data requirements; 2) they're HTML-bound, meaning you can't provide data like this https://developers.google.com/actions/media/how-to/create-a-feed
  

  You might be surprised what you can do with Microformats...
  
  https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader
  
  Even this tweet originated from my own website using tools built on Microformats.

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:31am -08:00
• Aaron Bradley https://twitter.com/aaranged   •   Jan 22

  I know that you're a huge microformats fan Kevin, but among other things: 1) they're not remotely expressive enough for contemporary structured data requirements; 2) they're HTML-bound, meaning you can't provide data like this https://developers.google.com/actions/media/how-to/create-a-feed
  

  If all you care about is SEO then do whatever Google says to do this year and you're fine. Today that's JSON-LD, tomorrow it's ???? I need to update this chart for 2020 but as we see, history keeps repeating itself. https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/17/8/owning-my-reviews#historical-recommendations

  

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:35am -08:00
• nystudio107 https://twitter.com/nystudio107   •   Jan 22

  Unless I'm missing something, this chart is lacking 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020. Google is strongly recommended JSON-LD usage today, and has been since 2016-ish.
  
  And there are a number of rich snippets that _only_ work as JSON-LD.
  
  https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data

  
  

  Yes, read the linked post, it's from 2016

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:41am -08:00
• Aaron Bradley https://twitter.com/aaranged   •   Jan 22

  What Google sayx. And Bing. And Yahoo. And Yandex.
  
  But if all you care about is SEO by all means use what you perceive as the flavor of the day. But if you also care about a robust, developer-friendly, serialization format for linked data then JSON-LD is there for you.
  

  Frankly "linked data" is not a priority for me. There's plenty of useful structured data that is not LD, and tbh most developers who use JSON-LD don't even know about the LD part, they just copy the examples and wonder why they have "@context" everywhere

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:43am -08:00
• nystudio107 https://twitter.com/nystudio107   •   Jan 22

  This implies http://schema.org is invented by Google; it isn't.
  
  "Since April 2015, the W3C http://Schema.org Community Group is the main forum for schema collaboration, and provides the public-schemaorg@w3.org mailing list for discussions."
  
  http://schema.org/docs/about.html

  
  

  Literally on http://schema.org... "Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex..." and look at the names on their about page too. Even if it's not created exclusively by them (which I never said), that looks an awful lot like an oligopoly to me anyway.

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:54am -08:00
• nystudio107 https://twitter.com/nystudio107   •   Jan 22

  Correct, but spun off as a neutral standard, as has happened for many of the technologies that we're using today.
  
  Regardless, Google is consuming only JSON-LD going forward for some types of structured data, so it'll end up being a choice you have to make at some point.
  

  Like I said already, only if you care about SEO. If SEO is your goal, you do what Google says. There's plenty of uses of structured data outside of that (including the tools that I use to read and post to Twitter) which are easier done using Microformats

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:58am -08:00
• nystudio107 https://twitter.com/nystudio107

  Yep, a fair point Aaron, I agree!

  Portland, Oregon • 45°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 5:00pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 9:01am -08:00)
• Ben Acker https://twitter.com/nvcexploder

  @aaronpk details his setup here: https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1201290841177776128
  
  It's a good one, and what I'm moving closer too. Right now I've got an Ecobee setup, a BUNCH of Phillips Hue lighting, and self-built HomeBridge devices that do weird crap like making cricket sounds.

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 5:07pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 9:08am -08:00)
• Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ https://twitter.com/ChrisFerdinandi   •   Jan 22

  "Do what Google says" means we should all build shitty AMP sites, too.
  

  a perfect example 😂

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 9:10am -08:00
• nystudio107 https://twitter.com/nystudio107   •   Jan 22

  Ironically, I have no microformat code on the site. It's pulling that from the JSON-LD "sameAs" URLs, I presume.
  

  Microformats != Microdata
  
  https://microformats.io
  
  tbh I also can't stand the itemprop= itemscope= stuff, it's so messy. That's why I like the Microformats approach instead.

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 9:17am -08:00
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• Fiona W. https://www.instagram.com/aliasxahna/

  Better late than never. :p | 2020 will be a year of change and action. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Personally trying for a more minimalistic life, spending more time with friends and family, be open to new ideas/ learn a few new things/skill, saying yes to trying (new) things out of my comfort zone, and to just do it... more quickly. 🤭😅 P/s top row first two drawings (left and middle) inspired by Pottering Cat.

  

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

  Sat, Jan 18, 2020 5:32pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 2:35pm -08:00)
• Anders Pitman https://twitter.com/anderspitman   •   Jan 22

  have their own custom domain for their instance, hosting an auth server. If someone wants to develop an app to talk to my service, they would have to register it with the instance of every user, which is impossible. Am I missing something? 2/2
  

  You're not wrong.
  
  You may want to give this a read, which addresses that exact problem: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/07/7/oauth-for-the-open-web
  
  We use this a lot for the case you're talking about, where app developers have no relationship with the OAuth service the app is talking to.

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 3:18pm -08:00
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  I like to think of myself as a somewhat organized person.
  
  But all these SD cards have photos and videos from different trips and projects and cameras, in no particular order, and I really need to sort out what has already been backed up and what exists only on the cards.

  

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 3:34pm -08:00
• Anders Pitman https://twitter.com/anderspitman   •   Jan 23

  Ahhh that's what IndieAuth is. I was reading up on it, but didn't see any information about the spec on the website. I think my main hesitance towards it is the use of domains. I just don't see the average user buying their own domain. Emails seems more realistic for unique IDs.
  

  ‪Doesn't have to be a top level domain, just a URL. Both users and apps are identified by URLs. ‬
  
  ‪I do think there's value in just client IDs being URLs in some cases, demonstrated by the fact that Home Assistant picked out just that part of the spec for their OAuth API.‬

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:21pm -08:00
• Anders Pitman https://twitter.com/anderspitman   •   Jan 23

  Don't get me wrong, I think URLs for client IDs is a great idea, which I intend to use. I'm just less sold on URLs for user IDs. Everyone already has email addresses, and they also come with a relatively reliable protocol for contacting the owner.
  

  I was trying to say feel free to pick and choose and use just the client ID part. I think that'd be a huge benefit for OAuth as a whole for the exact kind of use case you're talking about.

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:29pm -08:00
• Anders Pitman https://twitter.com/anderspitman   •   Jan 23

  I'm imagining a world where email servers handle identity, and authorization servers handle delegation, after confirmation ownership over the email identity.
  

  ‪While that sounds nice in theory, the real world is more complicated. Apple's OAuth server is a great example. User IDs are scoped to the app to prevent cross correlation, and the app gets a proxy email instead of the user's real email. Users don't always want to be identified.‬

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:33pm -08:00
• Lisa Phillips https://twitter.com/lisaphillips

  I'm "I just made a <Blink> Tag joke and they didn't get it" years old.

  Portland, Oregon • 49°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 11:12pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:04pm -08:00)
• Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd   •   Jan 23

  I just ordered a Post-It printer, and I have no regrets about it.
  

  Wait what's a post-it printer? Is it smol and cute if so I must have one

  Portland, Oregon • 49°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:05pm -08:00
• Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd   •   Jan 23

  I will provide feedback once it arrives!
  

  😍

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:13pm -08:00
• Johannes Ernst https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst   •   Jan 23

  And to this day, nobody knows how to label uSD cards.
  

  to be fair I don't label any of mine anyway

  Portland, Oregon • 49°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 6:29pm -08:00
• Dave Maze https://twitter.com/davemaze   •   Jan 23

  got an ice ball maker. cocktail game level up.

  
  

  now you're speaking my language!

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 7:51pm -08:00
• Dave Maze https://twitter.com/davemaze   •   Jan 23

  what’s your favorite? i’ve been just doing old fashions
  

  My summer go-to is a Negroni (gin, campari, vermouth, bitters), winter is Boulevardier season (bourbon, campari, vermouth, bitters). Can you tell I like Campari?

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  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 7:59pm -08:00
• Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli

  The decision of something being a good technical fit and something being a sound investment is often not done by the same person, so it would be a complex obstacle.
  
  I would much prefer support to be a progressive enhancement that can be dealt with in parallel to shipping stuff.

  Portland, Oregon • 49°F

  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 10:57pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:05pm -08:00)
• Keiran Flanigan https://twitter.com/aeliox

  Reminds me of the quote from Teller (of Penn & Teller) – "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

  Portland, Oregon • 49°F

  Fri, Jan 17, 2020 6:03pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:07pm -08:00)
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