Aaron Parecki

Today is my 33rd birthday. Since my last:
✈️ Flown 75,851 miles
🌮 909 tacos
☕️ 2,376 coffees
💸 Spent $18,141 USD
💵 Saved $14,753.44
🚲 1,152 miles
🌃 69 nights away
🚫🇺🇸 56 days out of the US
🛂 4 countries 🇸🇬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇺
⛸ Skated 22.5 hrs
🚗 ⛔️ Drove 0 miles
🚫 0 alcohol

Agreed. Which is why I’ve built my own platform on my own brand with my content simultaneously hosted elsewhere. If YouTube pulls the plug, my content lives on with a few lines of code change.

First Coffee Shop check-in in 4 months!

Yes but what’s your *illegal* name?

Is there a long German word for that nostalgia I feel when a period TV show shows a character using a cordless phone model I used to own?

that's irrelevant though - if you're making lists like this you have to actively strive for diversity.

if you tell me your favorite creators and the average works out to be the same - you need to question why that is and fix it.

otherwise nothing will change.

i was trying out the Dave app to see how it worked. this was probably the craziest account cancellation step*s* i had ever gone through.

My most relevant career experience that prepared me for working in open source software is when I used to babysit unreasonable and aggressive groups of small children

Fraunhofer HHI, partnered with Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Sony released H.266/VVC.

#H266 reduces data requirements by 50%, provides efficient transmission and storage of all video resolutions SD, HD, 4K, 8K & 360° video.

https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewonline2/17386/465/11/14SHcBTt/V44RELLZBp/1

If you factor in the people who don't realize they're participating, then the #indieweb is actually pretty large.

Hi, ER Doc here.

If you think wearing a piece of cloth makes it “hard to breathe”, then trust me you do NOT want COVID-19.

I was in the middle of reading. Is this what all you Windows users mean when things update outta nowhere?

I feel guilty about how much water I've wasted reading parts of this in the shower.

Social distancing

Stop telling people that they’ve won twitter today, no one wins here, we all lose

San Francisco is going for it tonight

Product managers helping their engineering team deliver features https://t.co/uTbY2Sq7La

My 2 cents: do things because you like the grind, not because of the destination. Having goals is great, but look at the journey overall. Very few things in life are fulfilling/worth it if you don't like the journey to get there.

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion. A thread 1/9 #COVID19 #ThursdayThoughts