Aaron Parecki

<p>Here are 14 things you shouldn't forget to bring when traveling to a tech conference.</p><p><b>An extra mobile device</b>: It's a great idea to have an extra device while you're out and about. An iPod Touch or iPad Mini are perfect candidates. This essentially gives you two batteries, since you can use your secondary device for many things like taking notes or tweeting and avoid draining your primary phone battery.</p><p style='text-align: center;'><img src='/articles/2013/03/11/1/files/ipad-mini.jpg' /></p>

Have you ever wondered where in your city you spend the most money? This post will show you how to plot all your Simple transactions on a map! No code required!

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There are many ways Github can be used to improve communications in an organization. In addition to providing version control for code, it can be used to manage text documents, press release drafts, and marketing copy and design. The "Issues" feature is also a great way to replace email for discussions.

Earlier this year, @tantek posted Twelve Blog Post Writing Tips, from which I got a great deal of inspiration.

Flickstagram, a service which will export your Instagram photos to Flickr, has had far more users in non-English speaking countries, and has also appeared in more non-English blogs than English ones.

<p>Google Analytics provides some hooks for tracking Facebook likes on your web pages as well as other social interactions. This lets you see how many people have "liked" your pages, and which pages are most popular on Facebook!</p> <p>This is a quick guide on how to set up Facebook like tracking in Google Analytics.</p>

You may think I have some crazy obsession with collecting this much data and will do anything it takes, but in reality I'm pretty lazy about it and look for low-friction solutions or I can't sustain the project.

The Indie Web

This morning, @tommorris struke a nerve with the Hackernews community with his post Dear "API providers," I don't want a relationship.

Every time I see a web app display a date as "30 minutes ago" I cringe a little. This was cute 10 years ago when rapid publishing on the web was new, but there are a number of problems with this.

This post describes OAuth 2 in a simplified format to help developers and service providers implement the protocol.

IndieAuth is a service that implements RelMeAuth, originally proposed by Tantek Çelik in February 2010. The original algorithm was described in a short text update on Tantek's website. Later that evening, Jeff Lindsay and Paul Tarjan implemented RelMeAuth in an open source Python library at Hacker Dojo and discussed/tested it in IRC. Tantek later launched a RelMeAuth prototype on his domain, which you can try out at tantek.com/relmeauth.

My grandfathers's parents were from Poland, and were born with a different name. They changed their name to Parecki after moving to Argentina. They left Poland for Argentina around 1910-1920.

I've always been surprised at how freeconferencecall.com never tries to up-sell me on monthly services. The least I'd expect is that their call recording service would come at a price, or they'd remove the "welcome to freeconferencecall.com" announcement from the greeting if I pay them something.

About the These Maps

I compiled the comparison chart below to compare the differences between the cameras between the specs I think are the most important. This is not a complete list of features of the cameras.

Moderators bring 2 outside pitch decks (e.g. Mint.com, Color)

The biggest difference I've noticed in my general level of health was when I cut out all refined sugars from my diet. It was a difficult thing to do, but was well worth it.

The purpose of this project is to support local editing of a MediaWiki installation.