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Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki
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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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  • Aaron Parecki

    The IETF OAuth Working Group has adopted the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant specification!

    This specification provides a mechanism for an application to use an identity assertion to obtain an access token for a third-party API by coordinating through a common enterprise identity provider

    This is the basis of Cross App Access (XAA), providing IT admins better visibility and control of app-to-app connections by configuring the connections in their enterprise IdP.

    While it will still be a while before it is an RFC, this is an important step in the standards process, as this is the first time the document is "official"! This signifies that the working group agrees that the problem is worth solving, and agrees on the general direction of the spec.

    Thanks to everyone for your contributions and feedback so far!

    And thanks to my co-authors Karl McGuinness and Brian Campbell!

    Portland, Oregon, USA • 77°F
    #oauth #ietf #okta #xaa
  • Aaron Parecki
    Well that's the last time I take my ID out of my wallet to go through airport security. I made the mistake of putting it into my pocket instead of back in my wallet and it seems to have fallen out somewhere between PDX and SFO 🫠
    San Francisco, California, USA • 60°F
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    #travel
  • Aaron Parecki
    So many neighbor dogs like to do their business in our unfinished driveway. Thankfully the neighbors do clean up after their dogs. But if this happens after 8pm, they have been tripping the alarm that keeps out the creepers from the yard.

    So earlier this week I set up a new automation. If the cameras spot an animal in the driveway, it disarms the alarm for 5 minutes. This gives their humans enough time to clean up without tripping the alarm. Then it re-arms the alarm after.

    This has significantly reduced the number of false positive alarms!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 74°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Tonight I had *three* false alarms where dog walkers picking up their dog poop from the driveway set off the siren. I feel bad when people who pick up after their dog set off the alarm because I'm glad they are being responsible! But also tonight I had two people wander in, one smoking something and the other stealing some trash.

    Five alarms in one night was enough for me to attempt to fix this.

    So now, if everything goes according to plan, if an animal is spotted in the driveway it will disarm the alarm for 5 minutes. That should give the nice people who pick up after their dogs enough time to do so without triggering the siren.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 83°F
    #homeautomation

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