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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
    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
    #homeautomation
  • 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
  • Aaron Parecki
    I don't know why I'm so excited to have a fully functional landline phone system in the house, complete with wired and wireless phones, local extensions for each room, voicemail boxes, bidirectional connection with the intercom system, and inbound and outbound dialing. Complete phone nerdery over here, someone should probably stop me.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 76°F
    likes 2 reposts 7 replies
    #phone
  • Aaron Parecki
    The latest version of the MCP spec is now officially 2025-06-18! Congrats to everyone in the MCP community involved in making this happen!

    Key updates to the authorization section:

    ⚙️ MCP Servers are no longer responsible for issuing access tokens or handling user authentication
    🛡️ A dedicated Authorization Server separate from the MCP Server handles user authentication and issuing access tokens
    🔍 RFC9728 Protected Resource Metadata enables the MCP client to dynamically discover the MCP Server's authorization server
    👉 RFC8707 Resource Indicators are required as a security measure

    Thanks to everyone who contributed to the many discussions to update the authorization part of the spec to be more compatible with existing OAuth systems!

    David Soria Parra, Paul Carleton, Den Delimarsky, Nate Barbettini, William Dawson, Jared Hanson, Karl McGuinness, Darin McAdams, Jean-François LOMBARDO and apologies if I forgot to mention you, those threads were extremely long!

    #modelcontextprotocol #mcp #oauth #ai
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 70°F
    likes 4 reposts 3 replies
    #modelcontextprotocol #mcp #oauth #ai

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