Aaron Parecki

The harder you work the ‘luckier’ you get

The whole idea of remote kindergarten. It’s just like... why are we pretending?

My son will be attending Nintendo switch academy this fall and his mother will be trying her best not to drink before 5 pm

One day last week I saw the UPS truck drive by my house AND IT DID NOT STOP.

I bet the driver thought something must be wrong, too.

When Yahoo bought Flickr and delicious, was that anti-competitive, or does it only count if it works?

When will standards folks realize that "spec" is short for "specification" and not "speculation"?

One key skill to develop in the Zoom era: performing grimaces and skeptical expressions intense enough to steer the conversation without having to say anything 😛😖😬😮🤔

Every time I get on a video call and people see my video looks great, the first thing I get asked is which camera I’m using, but the camera is the least important in the whole setup. Lights are the main thing, angle, lens and how far my background is contribute a lot to the look.

There's a saying that writing software is more like tending a garden than constructing a building -- things constantly change.

But the more I learn about how buildings evolve, I think this process is actually a perfect analogy for designing software!

Thread:

“I don’t like the color of that wall in my house”

“Thanks for the feedback! We’ll consider repainting everyone’s walls if enough house owners agree with you!”

The lack of agency we have over our software would seem absurd in other contexts.

Mixer and TikTok are not analogous. Mixer was an attempt to take market share from a successful, loved, market-dominant platform with nothing but money. TikTok /is/ the successful, loved, market-dominant platform. It would be hard for Microsoft to fuck up TikTok’s trajectory.

My father sent me a similarly worded email a few weeks ago. Apparently I’m “indoctrinating the children into a broken lifestyle”, and then cited many of the same “concerns”. Which I honestly thought were selling points. Just wait until he finds out two of them are gay! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🤷🏻‍♀️😂

imagine writing this letter and thinking smugly how bad all these things are while not having talked to anyone under 30 in the last decade

There's people who immediately spend thousands of dollars on gear before ever making a penny from the work they do with it.
And then there's people who refuse to spend the right amount on gear because they refuse to believe they'll ever "grow" enough for it to be worth it.

And here are the TNG uniform shirts I made in ACNH.

This is for those of you who don't want to wear a mask. Please take a moment to read it all.
via @GeeksLife360 via reddit.

Looking forward to 2021, when 2020 will finally be hindsight.

I've committed to myself (and now to you) to post to my personal blog weekly, at least through the end of the year. First one: Avoid home automation vendor lock-in by embracing vendor lock-in: https://afitnerd.com/2020/08/01/golden-age-home-automation/

One of the biggest consequences of the war on ads (aka privacy concerns) is that we now live in a world where journalism is behind a paywall while rumors & disinformation are free flowing.

QAn*n becoming mainstream is just the beginning.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

i’ve found if you’ve hide the lighting and sound lessons inside videos that are more search friendly they do much better.

audio? make it about podcasting.

lighting? apply it to a specific production (food videos etc)

when i try to do isolated or generic topics it tanks.