Aaron Parecki

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  In late 2019 I stuck a raspberry pi and e-paper display in a picture frame and made it show my upcoming travel plans. Now it is just blank. What should I use it for now?

  

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

  24 likes 35 replies

  Sun, Jan 9, 2022 7:14pm -08:00 #travel #raspberrypi #raspi #iot
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  Fellow conference speakers! I'm tired of posting my slides on Speakerdeck, I want to host them on my own website.
  
  What awesome tools are there for doing this in a way that looks as close to Speakerdeck as possible? I'm thinking maybe an old-school JS slideshow viewer?

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 49°F

  8 likes 10 reposts 10 replies 1 mention

  Fri, Jan 14, 2022 4:22pm -08:00 #presentations
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  oops, I accidentally viewsourced wordle and it turns out the next day's words are already chosen and visible in the source code. Don't look if you don't want to be spoiled!
  
  Wordle 216 1/6
  
  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 53°F

  25 likes 2 reposts 7 replies

  Thu, Jan 20, 2022 10:06am -08:00 #wordle
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  software you've purchased that auto-updates to a new version and makes you buy a new license is worse than software that is just a straight subscription model, just saying

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 53°F

  22 likes 3 reposts 4 replies

  Thu, Jan 6, 2022 2:45pm -08:00 #software
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  Just used this handy XKCD chart to determine that it was finally time to build a web interface on top of this little PHP script that generates PDFs of checks, rather than continuing to hack up this code by hand every time I need to print one. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time_2x.png

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F

  11 likes 3 replies

  Tue, Jan 11, 2022 10:18am -08:00 #checks
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  If you just finished watching The Matrix Resurrections, next go watch Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. You won't regret it I promise.

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 47°F

  14 likes 2 replies

  Sun, Jan 2, 2022 9:20pm -08:00 #matrix
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  I think this is the first time the "elevator" on a plane has made sense to me!
  
  Too bad it has nothing to do with the quadcopters I want to fly but I need to learn it for the test anyway 😅

  

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

  2 replies

  Fri, Jan 7, 2022 5:04pm -08:00 #drone #pilotinstitute
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  Dear @Eventbrite, I have an account, so please make sure it is not possible for other people to sign me up for events with only my email address. I've been added to dozens of events over the last two weeks and it's an interesting new vector for spam. @EventbriteHelp

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

  5 likes 1 repost

  Tue, Jan 18, 2022 9:08am -08:00 #spam
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  It's okay nobody really knows how maps work anyway https://twitter.com/lavenderashtray/status/1479285712641875968

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 50°F

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  Thu, Jan 6, 2022 10:30pm -08:00 #covid
• I always wondered why my AmEx cards ended in 100X... : amex (www.reddit.com)

  "37ab-cdefgh-ijklm
  
  All Amex cards start with 37
  
  ab is tied to the country of issuance/market
  
  cd usually relates to the product in the AmEx portfolio
  
  e is billing cycle
  
  fghi is account number
  
  j is the issue number
  
  kl are position on the account, starting with 00 for the main (basic) card holder
  
  m is the Luhn/mod 10 check digit"

  1 reply

  Wed, Jan 26, 2022 1:47pm -08:00 #amex #creditcard