Aaron Parecki

YouTube announced they will stop recommending some conspiracy theories such as flat earth.

I worked on the AI that promoted them by the *billions*.

Here is why it’s a historic victory. Thread. 1/

https://bit.ly/2MMXNGn

waking up is hard so i built an alarm clock that’s impossible to switch off until i run 100m from my flat

There is maybe almost no reason for a “federated social network”. Ideally, you get a domain, run some sort of OpenID on it, with microformats, and we find new ways to consume it. The “open web” found it hard to succeed because onboarding sucked compared to the walled garden

I run a livestream on Thursdays at 9am Pacific where I pair program with another developer and build something live. Some examples are on my YouTube channel.

Is there a dev on your team who’d pair program with me for 90 minutes to build something fun? 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2784YfPpw&t=4780s&list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTpvd49Sa77NiF8Uqq5Iykx&index=2

Be part of the exclusive club of 125 people who knows about my youtube channel. I post every Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfxX-oso5I

Wrong. The ONLY way you should organise CSS properties is like a Christmas Tree.
https://twitter.com/itsdavemartin/status/1092817982911406080

As of last night, newer posts on my website now feature an interactive map showing my location, speed, altitude, iPhone charge level, and more at the date and time of publish. Whee! Here is a good example post – https://cleverdevil.io/2019/part-mermaid

What the hell… Did @Medium just really kill of *every* 3rd party integration?

Without *any* prior notice. Issuing new tokens only by request through a *form*. And also just silently revoking *all* existing integration tokens. Suddenly, out of nowhere.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/213480228-Get-integration-token

Absolutely loved @aaronpk's OAuth talk #OReillySACon

Learn about common security threats when building microservices using OAuth, and how to protect yourself at @aaronpk's talk titled OAuth: When things go wrong. See you in Sutton North at 3:50pm today! #OReillySACon

Came across this on spot blog post regarding developer advocacy and this wonderful nugget https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/01/28/developer-relations-pro-tips#aaron-parecki-developer-advocate-at-okta from @aaronpk. Great point and one that I feel like shouting from the @Twitter rooftops today.

"I'll just implement my own #OAuth2 authorisation server, how hard could it be?" - a client
#AppSec

Happy Birthday, Facebook! 15 years today — and what a rollercoaster it has been. We created a friendship anniversary video for Mark Zuckerberg to mark the day.