Aaron Parecki

It’s truly dystopian how mixtapes used to come from people with crushes on us and now they come from algorithms

I've discovered that mf2py not only allows me to parse people's h-cards, but to parse my own website in unit testing to see if the renderer outputs stuff correctly. #IndieWeb has some unexpected benefits!

Domain names really hold you hostage. As soon as you've shared a link from that domain, you have two options when it comes up for renewal:
(1) Pay the ransom for that domain registration, or
(2) Break the internet, specifically the part linking to your own content

YouTube is probably over.

It’s been a lot of small steps, but this is the end.

As of December 10th, Youtube will delete channels that are “no longer commercially viable.”

How could a channel that’s demonetized be “commercially viable”?

“Broadcast yourself” is finished.

45 weeks in a row at Coffee Shops. You're on fire!

That's 20 straight weeks at Portland International Airport. You set a new record!

Censorship issues aside, Medium will eventually go under and you will be sad that you lost that 2012 article you forgot you wrote. The company has burned $132M with no hope of profitability. Mirror your stuff to a place you control, or there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

lets all ditch twitter and have cute 1999 style web sites and sign each others guest books if were feeling social i think thatd be nice and cute actually

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Anybody who tells a computer what to do with bullshit combinations of button presses you have to get exactly right or nothing works is a coder change my mind

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!