Aaron Parecki

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

plane	5 hr 0 min
train	1 hr 12 min
taxi	18 min
tram	10 min

2691.7 miles	plane
47.7 miles	train
9.8 miles	taxi
5.2 miles	tram

New York

Feb

18

Feb

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Feb

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February 18-21, 2020
4 days

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Contributions from: France, Germany, Philippines, Vietnam

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 12:48am -08:00
10:25pm
Asleep

4:09am
Awake

5h 44m
Slept

17m
Awake for

Portland, Oregon, USA

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:09am -08:00
Vika https://fireburn.ru/

Kittybox Companion for Android is now open-source! https://gitlab.com/vikanezrimaya/kittybox-android

It’s really rough, lacks IndieAuth (for now), can’t load Microsub posts beyond first page, the pictures are small (I need to make a popup overlay to enlarge them), and Micropub attachments are utterly broken. But otherwise it works for me!

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:48am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:55am -08:00)
Portland (PDX) to Seattle (SEA)

February 18, 2020 from 6:00am to 7:00am (-0800)

Alaska Flight 1477

Seattle (SEA) to New York (JFK)

February 18, 2020 from 8:00am (-0800) to 4:20pm (-0500)

Alaska Flight 628

John F Kennedy Intl in New York

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Plane

172.33mi
Distance

32:32
Duration

6:43am
Start

7:15am
End

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:15am -08:00
at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)

SeaTac, Washington • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:23am

47.443589 -122.302508

Gonna be a close connection... flight is already boarding

SeaTac, WA, United States

4 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:23am -08:00
at Gate B15

SeaTac, Washington • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:29am

47.441034 -122.303849

Made it!

SeaTac, WA, United States

1 like 10 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:29am -08:00
Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy • Feb 18
Our parents have Dave Ramsey we have Jake Paul #FinancialFreedom #blessed

I hadn't heard of Jake til just now, but you might actually like this podcast which is free, not $20/mo 😂 http://www.ohmydollar.com/tag/podcast/

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

3 likes

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:39am -08:00
DHH https://twitter.com/dhh • Feb 18
Amazing how well that 13-year old take has held up 😍. Not only does offline matter even less now than it did, the technology to do it is finally almost trivial (service workers). Glad we never wasted time on attempting it before that!

If the tech is trivial, why do so many apps fail to do it properly?

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:42am -08:00
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman

If you like it you should put a URL on it

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 9:37pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:43am -08:00)
James Long https://twitter.com/jlongster • Feb 18
I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable

I really like @NotionHQ but it logs me out of the desktop and iOS apps far too often and then won't work until I get internet again and it's really just unfortunate.

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

2 likes 2 replies

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:44am -08:00
James Long https://twitter.com/jlongster

I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:35am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:44am -08:00)
Adam Sharp https://twitter.com/AdamCSharp

A whatchamacallit in different languages:

7. Thingamajig (English)
6. Chingadera (Spanish)
5. Himstergims (Danish)
4. Naninani (Japanese)
3. Zamazingo (Turkish)
2. Dingsbums (German)
1. Huppeldepup (Dutch)

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 7:07am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:54am -08:00)
Lesley Carhart https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes

There’s this phenomenon I like to call VPB: Valley Pattern Blindness. It’s when a tech startup forgets every QA case for their product / feature outside temperate weather in a wealthy, internet-connected urban area, and nobody in the QA / development process catches them either.

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 10:44pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:55am -08:00)
I'm not opposed to this view. Actually kind of looking forward to spending the day getting some work done on this plane.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Seattle, Washington • 33°F

4 likes 1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:10am -08:00 #mbfeb #sunrise #travel
Contributions from: France, Germany, Philippines, United States, Vietnam

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:59am -08:00
Googlers should be required to develop their apps on 5 year old computers with a network connection capped at 1mbps with 100ms latency. On this flight today I've tried to use Gmail, Google Flights, and Adsense, and they are either ridiculously slow or just don't work.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania • 39°F

40 likes 19 reposts 21 replies

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:32pm -05:00 #google
Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager

I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:36pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:42pm -05:00)
Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager • Feb 18
I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

Been there more times than I'd care to admit 😂

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:43pm -05:00
Alan https://twitter.com/alanmoo • Feb 18
That’s a shame, I once had Gmail be the only way I could access a file to print on a really old computer because of its legacy support.

I know! It used to be so good! Ever since the new UI it's just gone straight downhill.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:44pm -05:00
Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink • Feb 18
I hear you, but I wonder if you don't have it backwards. 2020 is the year and airlines WiFi is like 1995 dialup? Something is wrong and I think it may be in the sky.

I don't think that's fair to say until you've personally had to maintain a wifi network that supports 300 simultaneous connections where the only uplink is an unstable satellite or cellular connection.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 45°F

3 replies

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:45pm -05:00
Bernie Beats Trump https://twitter.com/doctorow

Insecure Surveillance Cameras Provide Dystopian Peep Show https://hackaday.com/2020/02/18/insecure-surveillance-cameras-provide-dystopian-peep-show

Caroline Buttet's Virtual Peephole is an Arduino-powered box that taps into a random selection of insecure CCTVs: every time you lift the shutter, you get a different feed.

1/

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 45°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:23pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:46pm -05:00)
IoT RGB LED Matrix Controller (ESP32) | Hackaday.io (hackaday.io)

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:53pm -05:00 #arduino #led
Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink • Feb 18
They may be simultaneous connections but you make it sound like a server farm. They are "periodic" demands for upload or download. Maybe 30% of 300 seats are connected, for 90 connections. 10% hit the return key at the same moment, for 9 hits to the uplink at any instance.

They allow YouTube now, so that's not necessarily the traffic pattern anymore.

But my point was that unless you actually have experience running these systems I don't think it's fair to criticize them.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 46°F

1 like 1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:54pm -05:00
Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson • Feb 18
Was the Gmail basic view any better? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

I'll let you know as soon as the support site loads its web fonts

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Greenvale, New York • 45°F

3 likes

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:56pm -05:00
Plane

2525.34mi
Distance

268:20
Duration

8:30am
Start

3:59pm
End

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Springfield Gardens, New York • 47°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:59pm -05:00
Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink • Feb 18
I've run these systems.

In any case, airplanes are like 0.001% of the cases where network connectivity is bad, so websites should really try harder to fail better when network conditions aren't perfect.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Greenvale, New York • 45°F

1 like 1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:59pm -05:00
Quad 🌸 https://weeaboo.space/users/quad • Feb 18
@aaronpk Did you know that even though Windows 10 still supports dial-up, it doesn't really work.

The forced basic Telemetry, update checks, internet connectivity pings, etc. alone use up the 56k of bandwidth, so browsing the internet mostly just flat out doesn't work, regardless of patience. If you're lucky, you can get some text content popping up after a minute or two, but even if you wait 15 minutes, most sites are likely to never load a single image unless they're small sub 64x64 pixel icons. 90% of your http requests are simply going to time out or die for other reasons.

oh that is terrible! I'm so sad that so much software these days assumes that the user will have a perfectly functioning internet connection 100% of the time.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Springfield Gardens, New York • 47°F

4 likes 1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:06pm -05:00
Vladimir Dzhuvinov https://twitter.com/dzhuvi

Proposal for a new Grant API: user consent treated as an AS resource with own ID, life cycle and revocation, which persists across the expiration and revocation of any tokens linking to it. @tlodderstedt at the @openid #FAPI F2F in London

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Springfield Gardens, New York • 47°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:52am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:07pm -05:00) #FAPI
at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

Queens, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 4:11pm

40.645122 -73.784609

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK, JFK Expy, Queens, NY, United States

18 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:11pm -05:00
at JFK AirTrain - Terminal 7

Jamaica, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 4:18pm

40.648228 -73.78303

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK, Terminal 7, Jamaica, NY, United States

14 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:18pm -05:00
Quad 🌸 https://weeaboo.space/users/quad

@aaronpk Yes.

I managed some computers remotely on a ship outside Africa once, they paid thousands of dollars equivalent per month for satellite equipment and internet, but only got 768 down and 256 up in kilobits.

We used to split it up into 512/128 for the servers, and 256/128 for the few clients to browse the internet (5 shared desktop computers), both splits with sad attempts of QoS ontop of them of course.

But after Windows 10 landed we just had to give up, one or two computers would barely work on 256k, but if we connected up all of them, the 256k of bandwidth didn't work. As long as three or more computers were powered on, even doing nothing, you were lucky to browse anything. With four or five machines powered on, you could just give up, nothing would ever load.

Eventually we gave up, giving all bandwidth to the more critical servers and said "sorry, no internet". Leaving all outside-world communication to go via the server, in the form of things such as low-bitrate VoIP calls or E-mail.

It's sad that 15 years ago, we were happy to finally get 768k broadband to replace our broadband, and I even downloaded torrents with that connection.

Yet now, with only a few Windows 10 computers, that whole broadband line could be almost entirely spent on forced telemetry.

Jamaica, New York • 46°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 9:16pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:24pm -05:00)
Quad 🌸 https://weeaboo.space/users/quad • Feb 18
@aaronpk Yes.

I managed some computers remotely on a ship outside Africa once, they paid thousands of dollars equivalent per month for satellite equipment and internet, but only got 768 down and 256 up in kilobits.

We used to split it up into 512/128 for the servers, and 256/128 for the few clients to browse the internet (5 shared desktop computers), both splits with sad attempts of QoS ontop of them of course.

But after Windows 10 landed we just had to give up, one or two computers would barely work on 256k, but if we connected up all of them, the 256k of bandwidth didn't work. As long as three or more computers were powered on, even doing nothing, you were lucky to browse anything. With four or five machines powered on, you could just give up, nothing would ever load.

Eventually we gave up, giving all bandwidth to the more critical servers and said "sorry, no internet". Leaving all outside-world communication to go via the server, in the form of things such as low-bitrate VoIP calls or E-mail.

It's sad that 15 years ago, we were happy to finally get 768k broadband to replace our broadband, and I even downloaded torrents with that connection.

Yet now, with only a few Windows 10 computers, that whole broadband line could be almost entirely spent on forced telemetry.

That's incredible! What a mess!

Jamaica, New York • 46°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:25pm -05:00
Tram

5.20mi
Distance

10:14
Duration

4:19pm
Start

4:30pm
End

Jamaica, New York • 46°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:30pm -05:00
at JFK AirTrain - Jamaica Station

Jamaica, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 4:30pm

40.699151 -73.807893

Jamaica, NY, United States

18 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:30pm -05:00
at LIRR - Jamaica Station

Jamaica, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 4:37pm

40.699676 -73.808302

Jamaica, NY, United States

6 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:37pm -05:00
at Track 2

Jamaica, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 4:39pm

40.699788 -73.808663

Jamaica, NY, United States • 45°F

7 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:39pm -05:00
Adrian Cochrane https://floss.social/@alcinnz

@aaronpk Heck that's good idea for every (web)developer to try!

Jamaica, New York • 45°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:59pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:46pm -05:00)
Train

11.81mi
Distance

20:13
Duration

4:39pm
Start

5:00pm
End

New York, New York • 45°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:00pm -05:00
at New York Penn Station

New York, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 5:01pm

40.750537 -73.993422

New York, NY, United States • 45°F

13 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:01pm -05:00
at Transit Wine & Spirits

New York, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 5:08pm

40.750291 -73.992854

New York, NY, United States • 45°F

21 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:08pm -05:00
at Don Pepi Pizza

New York, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 5:18pm

40.7503 -73.993009

New York, NY, United States • 45°F

30 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:18pm -05:00
o̠̦̗̎̐̾ͪ̒͊ͮ̋ͪz̦̙̱͉̯͓͈̙̊͋ https://mastodon.social/@oz

@aaronpk scarce bandwidth is a nice way to scale down a web app addiction. 😌

New York, New York • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 10:24pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:34pm -05:00)
at Track 08

New York, New York • Tue, February 18, 2020 5:57pm

40.750356 -73.994562

New York, NY, United States • 43°F

12 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:57pm -05:00
Daniel https://twitter.com/DanielDoWrite • Feb 18
Apparently they use login tokens with 90 day expiration:
https://twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1224791056442519552
Not sure why, it might be the most frustrating part of the UX.

Nice find. That's ridiculous though. There's no reason I should be locked out of editing the files on my own computer. Like sure prevent syncing new content, but don't block me from accessing the existing files!

Bronx, New York • 42°F

1 like 1 reply

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:23pm -05:00
Notion https://twitter.com/NotionHQ • Feb 5
Appreciate you sharing this feedback - we'll highlight this to our engineering team for their consideration. More detail about our security practices here: https://www.notion.so/Security-6c56b4854b624b0d8f36711018647f68

Yeah this doesn't make any sense. Even if you want to force login sessions to last 90 days, you should at least not prevent me from editing the files that already exist on my device when this token expires.

Bronx, New York • 42°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:25pm -05:00
Train

35.98mi
Distance

51:38
Duration

6:00pm
Start

6:52pm
End

Old Greenwich, Connecticut • 41°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:52pm -05:00
at Stamford Transportation Center : Bus/Train (STM) Metro North & Amtrak

Stamford, Connecticut • Tue, February 18, 2020 6:53pm

41.046984 -73.54192

Stamford, CT, United States

12 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:53pm -05:00
José Netto https://twitter.com/jribeironetto • Feb 18
Hey @aaronpk! There's no option to send it to Brazil. Really would like to share it with my friends here.

Oh funny there's no "South America" shipping region like there are for everywhere else, but I just added Brazil manually so try again and it should work!

Stamford, Connecticut • 41°F

1 like

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:59pm -05:00
NYP to STM

February 18, 2020 from 7:00pm to 7:43pm (-0500)

Amtrak Acela Train 2172

STM

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Taxi

0.65mi
Distance

4:27
Duration

6:57pm
Start

7:02pm
End

Stamford, Connecticut • 41°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:02pm -05:00
at Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa

Stamford, Connecticut • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:05pm

41.051039 -73.534875

Stamford, CT, United States • 41°F

28 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:05pm -05:00
at Northern Lights Lounge

Stamford, Connecticut • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:42pm

41.051279 -73.535367

Stamford, CT, United States • 41°F

9 Coins

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:42pm -05:00
Notion https://twitter.com/NotionHQ

Very good point, thank you for this feedback. It's something we might revisit in the future, so we'll share with our engineering team to take to heart.

Stamford, Connecticut • 40°F

Wed, Feb 19, 2020 1:59am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 9:01pm -05:00)