Aaron Parecki

Homebrew Website Club in Karlsruhe 13.11.2019
#HWC #IndieWeb

Most coffee is just chocolate milk with drugs in it

Modern coffee shops, all too often, optimize for people who wish they liked coffee, but it turns out they actually just like milkshakes.

I want a line of books called "$TOPIC for Smart People who are unfamiliar with this topic and can't give it the time required to master it, but still have to Get the Job Done"

F that "dummies" nonsense.

“We’re all beginning to understand better that algorithms are only as good as the data that gets packed into them. And if a lot of discriminatory data gets packed in... then the discrimination is perpetuated." - @ewarren knows what’s up 🔥🔥🔥

UPS, but they deliver your packages, unpack them, and take the cardboard back with them.

I have a bunch. Telling people to tweet a specific slide works well https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/tell-the-audience-what-you-want-them-to-do/

The ProGrade reader is a lot faster than the internal SD card reader by about 40% if memory serves.

If you liked it you shoulda put a retweet on it

"Hidden back doors in voting machine software" is the silliest conspiracy theory ever. Anyone who's examined the code for a modern commercial voting machine can tell you that there are so many security vulnerabilities, inserting a backdoor would be a complete waste of time.

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