Aaron Parecki

Startup idea: browser extension that extracts the actual recipe from recipe websites

Ok time to PIVOT! A startup that extracts the menu, hours and address from a restaurant web site.

I'll say it again the folks in the back - Medium is not a blog. It's another walled garden like Facebook. Own your words or they can take them from you.

Reviewing the last 6 months of activities, and it's full cognitive whiplash.
Some stuff feels like a couple of weeks old, but it turns out it happened 2.5 months ago... WTF.

I have a joke about JavaScript, but wait! First I have to download half the internet with npm.

Oh wow! @HP just gave me a copyright strike on a video from 2009 that THEY contractually asked ME to appear in as talent, and post. Time to figure out who's issuing poorly-researched strikes 11 years later! 🙄

I have a joke about Animal Crossing but oooh wait just a sec I need to catch this butterfly first

I have a civic tech joke but we’ve had 10 meetings about it and we’re nowhere closer to releasing a beta version

I ordered the 360th Tesla Model S ever manufactured. I picked it up and paid for it in late 2012. I never did the math until today. If I had used that money to purchase Tesla stock instead of the Model S, today that stock would have been worth over $4.5M 🤦

I have a Portland joke, but it’s going to be declared a riot.

"The Upload Effect" is when you quadruple check a video before exporting and then still upload it with a mistake.

Took me 188 videos and 8 months to cross 10k subs...

I brought a very high level understanding of SEO from 7 years building my wife's blog.

It was an intense experience and it absolutely consumed my life for those 8 months.

I changed for the better as a person in that phase

Amazing, amazing content and people at #identiverse, #osw2020 and @auth0 U++ this week... thanks to the organizers, outstanding job!
That said, i think I am ready for the weekend! 😛

being a senior software engineer means being able to architect an entire end-to-end application in your head but having to Google how to check if a JS array contains an element because you can only remember how to do it in three other languages

that's right, my experience as well!
Sometimes I think they do the audio equivalent of video upscaling and use AI to hallucinate missing content :P

In the past few weeks I believe I tried most of the conferencing sw, Teams excluded. Here they are, ranked from best to worst in my experience... YMMV. For me, Zoom is amazing - on every device.

1. Zoom
2. GotoMeeting
3. WebEx
4. Google Meet
5. BlueJeans

WeWork biggest mistake was not creating co-working laundromat spaces called WeWash.