Aaron Parecki

Onkyo TX-NR509 5.1 Channel Network A/V Receiver

Links to hosted versions of various tools I use.

Collecting some product links to build a tiny server suitable for running at home. The main goal is for it to be quiet and power efficient.

Note: This page is out of date. See the IndieWebCamp wiki for updates.

If you can memorize the table below, you are well on your way to doing a lot of what looks like complex math problems in your head!

OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. One of the formats allows your browser to add your site to its list of search engines, which Firefox displays in the top right corner, and Chrome uses in the address bar. Adding a small link and XML document allows your site to be added to a browser.

2015 Update: I've heard reports that this no longer works and may brick the device. Proceed at your own risk and keep in mind that this article is now over 4 years old.

Home Automation with SMS and GPSView more presentations from Aaron Parecki.

Presented at

Presented at Unplugged 2011

Today at Where 2.0, two data scientists announced a discovery that iPhones are recording GPS positions into a hidden file on the device. I'll save a summary for an update of this post, but go read the original article for now.

Nobody wants to be presented with a signup form when trying out a new web service. Even though in recent years many websites have trimmed down their signup forms to make them easier to complete, I think we can do better.

Electronics

@tantek has been using his Falcon project to create short-form and long-form content on his site, and syndicate it out to Twitter. Falcon is a personal publishing (tweeting, blogging, realtime syndicating) web application created in the true spirit of the Indie Web.

cyborganthropology.com is quickly becoming the default online resource for everything relating to Cyborg Anthropology. With over 800 articles and growing daily, it's possible to find nearly anything you can think of.

I recently spent some time at Souk, a co-working space in Portland. It’s a great space with lots of room and lots of light, which is important when you’re going to spend hours on end somewhere. Over the course of a couple days, it became apparent that there are several tools that can help facilitate the coming and going of people in spaces like these.

Loqi is an IRC bot that lurks in several channels on irc.freenode.net. He is mostly a utility bot, but occasionally enjoys a bit of playful conversation.

Note: This is a really old post! In the time since this was written, Apple acquired TestFlight and now provides a native way to distribute your app to beta testers over the air. The below should still work, but isn't really necessary anymore.

If you're like me, you've probably got a lot of bookmarks saved on Delicious. If you're not, you might know someone who does. With Delicious going offline, the question is where people are going to be taking their Delicious bookmarks? If you have a Delicious account (created after the Yahoo! acquisition), your only download option is a html download exporting to browser bookmarks. This doesn't give anyone much freedom in where you can take your data. To ease this frustration, caseorganic and I set out to solve this issue.