Aaron Parecki

68°F

Kevin Marks http://www.kevinmarks.com

Pearl-clutching twitter users: but what if the hobbyist sysadmin gives up on my mastodon instance?
Me: have you met venture funded social sites? http://Indieweb.org/site_deaths

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 71°F

Sun, Aug 19, 2018 12:23am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 8:45pm -04:00)
Sean Heber https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod

Programming is great because you can just take that huge messy chuck from the middle of your function and hide it away under a new name in a new function and feel good about how you "cleaned up" the original function by abstracting the internals.
This is exactly how I used to clean my room as a kid - I'd refactor all the junk on the floor to be under my bed. Boom - problem solved.

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 72°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 8:17pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 8:33pm -04:00)
at Hyatt Regency Cambridge - Overlooking Boston

Cambridge, Massachusetts • Sat, August 18, 2018 8:23pm

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Cambridge, MA, United States • 72°F

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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 8:23pm -04:00
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Boston, Massachusetts • 74°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 8:11pm -04:00
Josh Dick https://joshdick.net • Aug 18
@aaronpk Nice to meet you at #devconf! I already understand micro.blog’s Webmention model better than I did when I first wrote this, but if you’re curious where I started: http://micro.blog/jd/803408 and my current question about “re-mentions” that we discussed in person: https://micro.blog/jd/806147 I know these are both specific to micro.blog but I’m very interested in how Webmentions can gel well wtih centralized services like micro.blog in general.

Good to meet you as well! I'll take a look at those links soon!

Boston, Massachusetts • 74°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 7:35pm -04:00
Ben Roberts https://ben.thatmustbe.me

I am staring at this pizza place and keep thinking it says oauth pizza... And think of @aaronpk

Boston, Massachusetts • 76°F

1 mention

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 10:34pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 7:34pm -04:00)
at George Sherman Union

Boston, Massachusetts • Sat, August 18, 2018 6:42pm

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Boston, MA, United States • 76°F

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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 6:42pm -04:00
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Boston, Massachusetts • 76°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 6:41pm -04:00
at India Quality Restaurant

Boston, Massachusetts • Sat, August 18, 2018 5:22pm

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Boston, MA, United States • 76°F

foursquare.com/user/32111402

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Boston, Massachusetts • 76°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 5:17pm -04:00
at MBTA Boston University Central Station

Boston, Massachusetts • Sat, August 18, 2018 5:09pm

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Boston, MA, United States • 76°F

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Boston, Massachusetts • 76°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 5:09pm -04:00
Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/

How about if, instead of ditching Twitter for Mastodon, we all start blogging and subscribing to each other's Atom feeds again instead? The original distributed social network could still work pretty well if we actually start using it

Boston, Massachusetts • 80°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 5:15pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 3:02pm -04:00)
I keep wanting to “like” things here…but I don’t want to favourite them. I’ve been trained not to comment but star on social media and it’s not easy to untrain yourself.

Boston, Massachusetts • 85°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 3:51pm +02:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 2:58pm -04:00)
Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/

Yeah the indieweb community have been thinking about this for a while - it seems like this should be their moment to shine, I'm not sure why Mastodon is getting all the attention (at least in the Twitter circles I follow)

Boston, Massachusetts • 89°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 5:43pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 1:46pm -04:00)
Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

I have started to think of Micro.blog as a wonderful discovery and aggregation service for the IndieWeb. It fits neatly into my Microsub reader, enables me to find new people to follow and interact with, and integrates perfectly with my website through Webmentions. 👏🏻

Boston, Massachusetts • 88°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 5:21pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 1:24pm -04:00)
at Pavement Coffeehouse

Boston, Massachusetts • Sat, August 18, 2018 12:27pm

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Boston, MA, United States • 84°F

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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 12:27pm -04:00
Ash McAllan https://acegiak.net

Yes, Twitter as a platform is bad and getting worse, but I cannot afford to migrate away from a system where I've built a community and audience I love in favour of other platforms where that's actively harder to do. Marginalised folks can't afford to "just rebuild"

Boston, Massachusetts • 82°F

Fri, Aug 17, 2018 1:27am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 11:26am -04:00)
kaniini https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini

hoping to have functional prototype of the tumblr-like blogging stuff this weekend

Boston, Massachusetts • 82°F

Fri, Aug 17, 2018 9:54pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 11:24am -04:00)
kaniini https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini

https://twitter.com/ponettplus/status/1030589525955956736

actually good thread about why nomadic identity is crucial for getting us to the next step.

Boston, Massachusetts • 79°F

Sat, Aug 18, 2018 3:19am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Aug 18, 2018 11:16am -04:00)

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