Aaron Parecki

Chris Aldrich mentioned it was his #indieweb anniversary today, which made me wonder when I first encountered indieweb. Turns out it was six years ago! I remember being excited about the idea of federated comments. I had no idea I would be getting involved with the community for years to come, though. In that time, I've organized some meetups, traveled to several IndieWebCamps, and even co-organized an IndieWebCamp. I've met a lot of great people through it all and have had a lot of fun. I've made some good improvements to my site and learned things that have helped my professional web work, too.

You should join us! Check out indieweb.org, say hello in the chat, and join us at the IndieWeb Summit this June in Portland.

@aaronpk So many lessons in the Mythical Man Month that people insist on re-learning the hard way. This book should be required for any CS major: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMythicalMan-Month

This seems like a chilling conversation for Americans:

Attention kids studying Geometry: today I had to recall the equation of a line, and how to calculate discrete points on a line, for my high-paying programmer job. So … “will you ever really use this”? Yes, If you’re lucky.

Somehow, I’m not even a little surprised Samsung’s $2600 phone — that folds in half — is having major hardware problems.

An unexpected quiet afternoon means time to work on the ol’ website.

@aaronpk I’d rather have no outlet over the tease of a working one. At least I know where my bar of expectations is set.

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

me_irl

Fortunately, it was not.

https://xkcd.com/1273/