Aaron Parecki

Fun fact! Baby elephants are born weighing ~250 pounds, making them the world’s biggest babies, right next to the people who complain that CSS isn’t really coding 🧠✨💅🏼

Apple Stores have these custom engineered drawer systems, and as a good example of the kind of microscopic thing I find interesting, I find it interesting that each metal divider is labelled "China". Who's requiring this

Can confirm. Zuckerberg not only did this, but coopted numerous people and companies who were working on open, free protocol-based social software, and paid them tons of money to shut up.

A few days ago, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, added them all to a list, and I now read that list instead. It’s shockingly better. Only their own tweets and retweets, in order. No ads, no "liked by," no "people you may know," no engagement hacking crap. It’s glorious.

Even better, when I inevitably end up in the home timeline anyway, it only has my own tweets and ads, nothing interesting. No dopamine outrage bullshit cycle to get caught up in.

Shh, don’t tell, I’m afraid some low level product manager at Twitter will discover this and "fix" lists like they "fixed" the home timeline a while back.

There are a couple drawbacks. I lost a few people I followed whose accounts are protected; I need to find and re-follow them. Also this evidently makes it harder for people to DM me, somehow. Not sure how, I don’t use Twitter DM much.

Still. Glorious.

I made these Fake Oyster Card stickers to put over your real Oyster card so it looks fake but still works. It's a massive waste of everyone's time, including yours, and you can get it here: http://spellingmistakescostlives.com/shop

That's 19 straight weeks at Airports. You set a new record!

Anyone else find this as bad of a UI/UX design as I do… on iOS, the key to switch to emoji (1) sits between the numbers and the space bar, making it far too easy to hit accidentally, but then the real problem is that the delete key (2) *moves* when you change keyboards. (1/2)

I'm making a board game about the craziness that is driving around Boston. We've just launched the crowd funding campaign, check it out: http://gridlock.info/

You know that you should possibly think about your work / life balance when you begin an email with:

hi tomas,
hi hannes {

An AI self-driving trolley with *fully functional* brakes heads down a track. The AI recognizes 5 people on the track ahead.

Does the trolley:
1. Engage the brakes, saving lives
2. Kill the people. Handling jaywalking was not a stakeholder requirement

Ethics are so COMPLICATED!

My new approach: if a car seems to be heading towards me and I'm about to be run over, I shall shout "npm update" as loud as I can.

Or maybe "Alexa, npm update".

Of course, they probably use yarn.

#IndieWeb I love you and I'm glad to be here again 😍

Every time I go to a conference, I think to myself "I don't know anyone, I hope I meet people" and every time, I end up with some kind of group that becomes more than just colleagues, they become friends. That's this group for #oredev!!

Huge crowds out today to hear @aaronpk discussing Smarter Home Automation Without The Cloud. Starting out with some great examples of when home automation has gone horribly wrong if servers go down. #oredev https://twitter.com/BaileyHanna/status/1192462917830090757/photo/1

Urgh. Has anyone successfully applied for a Twitter developer account recently?

I feel we may need to crowdsource the incantation that gets new accounts approved.

*apple watch buzzes*: meeting in 10
*phone calendar pop up*: meeting in 10
*desktop calendar pop up*: meeting in 10
*slack reminder*: meeting in 10

YEAH OK I GOT IT, MEETING IN 10

11 minutes later:
OH FUCK MY MEETING

Tech conferences are the best version of reality.
The amount of collaboration, friendship building, and just open and honest discussions about challenges/wins is incredible.

our Time to First Spinner Render TTFSR is really good though

Random thought on semantic versioning: the ideal library version is something like 1.173 because it indicates that they released 173 new features without once breaking backwards compatibility