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Aaron Parecki

  • Steven https://pi.swb72.us/   •   Oct 30

    I am loving the updates that Aaron Parecki has been making to the Overland tracking app as a beta tester via Apple TestFlight. This is a good case study for using AI code tools alongside existing legacy code to add new features and clean up potential holes.

    • Can now use automations in Shortcuts to, for example, auto-start a car trip when my iPhone connects to CarPlay (I don't have one set to end the trip when it disconnects, because CarPlay sometimes disconnects and reconnects, and the pause is just long enough to convince Overland to end the trip). I'm looking for other ways to automate things like starting walking trips when starting an Outdoor Walk workout (or vice versa), &c.

    • Screen widget lets me see an active trip and end it from the home screen without needing to open the app.

    • Additional trip types, including running, e-bike, hiking, &c. (Although I somewhat jokingly suggest there should be one for amusement park ride—Disney World frequent flyer).

    And to the idiot who saw fit to criticize the use of an AI tool to help write code—you're certianly welcome to go back to writing Assembler code if you like, have fun with it.

    Aaron Parecki
    Thank you! It's been super freeing to work on it this way!

    If it wasn't obvious before, I am definitely not good at iOS development, and I often dreaded needing to make updates when Apple added new APIs, so most of the time things would just never get done and it would be years between app updates.

    And frankly, most of the recent iOS platform integrations are not terribly creative, they involve following Apple's docs on what to do, which it turns out is a great task to outsource to the giant statistics machines.

    I hope it's clear that I am still driving the development of this with my Product hat on, and now I'm able to move much faster! This lets me focus on the fun part to me, which is to make the decisions about how the app works, and not have to get into the weeds on how Apple wants me to write the code this year.
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
    #ai #llm #ios #overland
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  • Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz   •   Oct 30

    @aaronpk

    I'm hoping eMudrha is nowhere in your Key Signing Key root of trust 👍️

    Aaron Parecki
    I can't promise my private key *isn't* 4!
    Portland, Oregon • 55°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    My new PGP setup. A primary yubikey has my main "certify" key, which is able to certify subkeys. Two other yubikeys have duplicate copies of the same subkey. These can be used for signing and verifying. I also have a subkey on my Mac directly for day to day things like signing git commits.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
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    #pgp #gpg #yubikey
  • Aaron Parecki
    Contributions from: France, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
  • Aaron Parecki
    Contributions from: France, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
  • 😀🚲 https://urbanists.social/@enobacon   •   Oct 30

    @aaronpk I have been wanting to put RFID tags or something on all of my tools and stuff so I can wave a magic wand around and find things.

    Aaron Parecki
    that would be so good
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
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    I lost my calipers somewhere in my office and it's driving me absolutely crazy that I can't find them
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    at Congressman Earl Blumenauer Bicycle And Pedestrian Bridge
    Portland, Oregon • Fri, October 30, 2026 8:54am
    45.526258 -122.659069
    Portland, OR, United States • 47°F
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    at Tilikum Crossing
    Portland, Oregon • Fri, October 30, 2026 7:11am
    45.504878 -122.667105
    Portland, OR, United States • 47°F
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  • Steven https://pi.swb72.us/

    I am loving the updates that Aaron Parecki has been making to the Overland tracking app as a beta tester via Apple TestFlight. This is a good case study for using AI code tools alongside existing legacy code to add new features and clean up potential holes.

    • Can now use automations in Shortcuts to, for example, auto-start a car trip when my iPhone connects to CarPlay (I don't have one set to end the trip when it disconnects, because CarPlay sometimes disconnects and reconnects, and the pause is just long enough to convince Overland to end the trip). I'm looking for other ways to automate things like starting walking trips when starting an Outdoor Walk workout (or vice versa), &c.

    • Screen widget lets me see an active trip and end it from the home screen without needing to open the app.

    • Additional trip types, including running, e-bike, hiking, &c. (Although I somewhat jokingly suggest there should be one for amusement park ride—Disney World frequent flyer).

    And to the idiot who saw fit to criticize the use of an AI tool to help write code—you're certianly welcome to go back to writing Assembler code if you like, have fun with it.

    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
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    Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Aaron Parecki
    Contributions from: France, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
  • Norm Tovey-Walsh https://toot.wales/@ndw   •   Oct 29

    @aaronpk I would totally be interested.

    Aaron Parecki
    Awesome! There's a signup form on the site! https://overland.p3k.app/
    Portland, Oregon • 51°F
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 29
    You're welcome to not test it then. I've been hand-writing this app for the past 15 years, and now I can work on it much faster.
    Aaron Parecki
    I have hundreds of users of this app who will greatly appreciate the updates. If you don't want to use the app then you can just ignore this.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F
  • undercuddled Jak2k 🏳️‍🌈 https://mastodon.de/@jak2k   •   Oct 29

    @aaronpk I find it very disrespectful to let a slopmachine spit out some code and to then ask humans to test it.

    Aaron Parecki
    You're welcome to not test it then. I've been hand-writing this app for the past 15 years, and now I can work on it much faster.
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
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