Aaron Parecki

Crypto is 13 years old.

13 years into the web, 59% of Americans used it.

13 years after the iPhone, 81% of American had a smart phone.

13 years into crypto, and nobody uses it beyond speculation and ransomware.

I'm officially an old hater when it comes to frontend. Everything is slower by default. Nothing is actually easier than it was before. Things are still buggy af despite all the linting and type systems and build steps. And it's not even fun anymore. Sorry not sorry.

Parts of the crypto ecosystem are shaping up to be an extension of the current broken financial system it was aiming to replace, without the safe guards, and lets be honest, most of those regulations only limit how much harm can be done to you.

Everyone: "Bring Magsafe back!!"
Also Everyone: *continues charging their new macbook via USB C* lol

Should you be worried about OAuth client impersonation? @aaronpk shares some answers to your most frequently asked questions about OAuth client impersonation. https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/06/01/oauth-public-client-identity

LinkedIn is what happens when a collection of growth hacks spontaneously evolves into an app.

Shoutout to the Product VP at linkedin that signed off on sending notifications for when someone likes the post you liked

your browser uses so much more RAM than it took to go to the moon because a good general purpose multilingual text and graphics layout engine is, in fact, harder than going to the moon

chef's kiss moment in the cities skylines subreddit as this guy designs an American highway exit suburb and then asks why nobody walks or bikes

indieauth is a deceptively clever spec; still pretty rough around the edges but I do think this unlocks the final boss for identity (and thusly data) sovereignty

Web3 so far feels like people who only know Web2 trying to build Web1 from scratch. I truly feel we'd benefit if more Web3 folks researched existing decentralized projects: IndieWeb, IndieAuth, RSS, ActivityPub, Federated web, etc. We should be using these existing tools imo.