Aaron Parecki

youtube comments: "you're talking about expensive hardware, but I want a free software solution that's just as good. What should I get?". 🤦‍♂️

Corona

I am exporting one of the most ridiculous videos I've made in a very long time thanks to a little help from my friends. Should be up in an hour or so! 🤓👍🙌

Stay at home!

Of all the local businesses adapting to the current situation, bars, breweries and wineries have handled it best, offering curbside pickup, free deliveries, and recommendations of buying gifts for friends. Or wait, maybe that's just representative of the mailing lists I'm on… 🤔

People: "I want 2020 to be like the roarin' twenties!"

Earth: "Alright, infectious disease is spreading."

People: "No, not like that."

Earth: "The US stock market is tanking."

People: "Wait..."

Earth: "LMAO Bars can't be open anymore."

Cursor for iPad OS is the most important update to me. It now makes editing video on iPad Pro a reality for many. No more hunching over an iPad for 6 hours. You can have proper ergonomics with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Thing I will never again take for granted: sitting in a bustling coffee shop with a bagel, hacking on a laptop, people watching

It's easy to get people to come together in common sacrifice in the middle of a war. It's very hard to get them to do so in a pandemic that looks invisible precisely because suppression methods are working. But that's exactly what we're going to have to do. /end

God, the COVID-19 business pitches have begun. Don't worry, I'll remember you. And to never, ever do business with your immoral, profiteering company.

For those looking for comparisons of free tiers for popular video conferencing things (thread):

Google Hangouts
- no time limit
- max quality 720p
- max 10 people
- no recording
- anyone can share screen

Naming things is hard, and no matter what, once you come up with a reasonable name there will be someone who complains because their idea is so much more clever. #bikeshedding

A friend in Germany tells me everyone’s panic buying sausages and cheese. It’s the Wurst Käse scenario.

Late night show hosts are becoming YouTubers now that they’re stuck at home - how the tables have turned 😂

If you have ever wondered what Twitter would have looked like had it existed in 2002, wonder no more, I am here to satisfy you

Honestly can we go back to native desktop apps for websites being simple little tools that do one thing right and use the native window look and stay out of the way and don't use a ton of RAM and don't contain an entire goddamn web browser that would be great

Hey @YouTube why don't you decrease the % you keep from super chats and memberships for awhile to help us weather this storm. I'm sure you can afford it, and it'd be a gesture of good will to those of us that are creating to help people get through this time.

One competitor to YouTube is buying a domain name, starting your own website, posting videos on your own website, providing a selection of SD video without charge, and providing HD video to subscribers. It's called IndieWeb.
https://indieweb.org/video