Aaron Parecki

Welp, Google did something to their SMTP servers today and my ability to send email from my Google account just stopped working. App-specific passwords aren't working anymore. Guess I am just going to quit email.

Does anyone have a list of card games where the mechanics allow it to be played remotely? Not online games tho, games that use real physical cards, where it doesn't matter that the players will be drawing from separate decks.

I just held an iPhone SE and now I'm super tempted to sell my XS and get the SE instead.

also TouchID is better than FaceID, especially right now

sometimes I reply to an email or slack message in my head, and only later realize that I did not in fact send the reply. this leads to undesirable results.

overheard in work slack: So far this week, my only exercise has been trying to click the "Leave Meeting" button before the "Ended by Host" dialog pops up. #QuarantineLife

The number of virtual happy hours and social events at work I've been invited to has skyrocketed. I've been self-employed or work-from-home for the vast majority of my career. Is this how much work-social time is normal *at* the office that people are now lacking?

Support your local donut shops! https://twitter.com/donutjs/status/1255315781803442176

of course as soon as I'm ready to hit "record" for a new video, a concrete truck pulls up and starts pouring concrete next door

I want the iPad Pro to replace a computer so bad, but I just signed a PDF in Gmail, Gmail needed to save the file to Files, but can’t attach files *from* Files, so I had to download Google Drive and export the file from Files to Google Drive so Gmail can find it. 🤦‍♂️

Reminder! Join me today at 1pm pacific for an OAuth Happy Hour! 🔐🍻 I'll be answering your #OAuth questions along with my friend @afitnerd!

Details here ➡️ https://events.oauth.net/2020/04/oauth-happy-hour-5aVNs7pL1gE1

maybe I should just say screw it and get a $10,000 Mac Pro since I'm apparently never leaving this house again

My 2017 12" MacBook is starting to show its age, but I hate that there is nothing to replace it right now. There's no reason to get a MacBook Air since it's the same form factor as the 13" Pro. But it seems unlikely they're going to release a small computer again at this point.

I still think million dollar home page was better

https://milliondollarmetropolis.com

I just hooked up my #NintendoSwitch to be able to post photos to my website!

They don't get posted to my home page or photo pages, so if you're following my website you won't see the flood of #ACNH photos that's about to happen.

If you do want to see them, they are here: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/acnh and https://aaronparecki.com/tag/nintendoswitch and you can add those pages to your reader!

However, I don't have a good way to stop them from going out to Mastodon people, so feel free to mute the #ACNH tag if you don't want to see them!

Today I discovered that my website's tip jar was being used to test stolen credit cards. There were hundreds of attempted $1 charges over the last week. Thankfully @Stripe rejected most of them and only a handful went through, but I'm still stuck with $37 in processing fees. 💸

My #OktaneLive talk is up! "What's New with OAuth?"

In just 30 minutes I cover the latest developments in the OAuth working group! So much new stuff happening in the OAuth world right now!

https://youtu.be/g_aVPdwBTfw