Aaron Parecki

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eevee https://twitter.com/eevee

i have made good-faith attempts to understand what they are so excited about but it always boils down to "what if, instead of trusting a rich company with all your information... you trusted a group of rich anonymous strangers?"

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Sun, Nov 14, 2021 4:15pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 15, 2021 9:02am -08:00)
eevee https://twitter.com/eevee

it is completely wild to me how many people on here are making 100% confident statements about what is made possible by web3, a thing that does not seem to actually exist

and right at the same time as facebook releases an AMV about "the metaverse" and pretends it's a product

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Sun, Nov 14, 2021 3:47pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 15, 2021 9:02am -08:00)
Jake Archibald https://twitter.com/jaffathecake

Right, but Web 2.0 (although the term was a bit of a joke to developers) was describing technologies solving actual problems. Web3 is vague hype.

Folks like https://indieweb.org/ share some of the web3 goals, but without the speculative crypto bro stuff.

Portland, Oregon • 55°F

Mon, Nov 15, 2021 3:00pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 15, 2021 7:06am -08:00)
Alex Blechman https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Mon, Nov 8, 2021 10:49pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 14, 2021 8:19am -08:00)
Nick Smit https://twitter.com/RiddleMeSmit

Cyberpunk: The bright lights and shiny tech is to distract you from the atomisation of your community and the stripping of your human rights to the point that you are considered little more than a number

Techbros: How cool is shiny thing from cyberpunk

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Tue, Nov 9, 2021 1:18pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 14, 2021 8:19am -08:00)
joao https://twitter.com/_joaogui1

Orgs supporting NFTs and crypto: Twitter, Discord and Adobe (Big Tech, centralised)
Projects opposing it: Mastodon, Zulip and Kritta (open source, decentralised)
If you think crypto and NFTs will democratise the internet, wonder why Big Tech likes it and decentralised OS doesn't

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Sat, Nov 13, 2021 2:02pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 14, 2021 7:40am -08:00)
Tom Hirst https://twitter.com/tom_hirst

How to gain attention for what you do:

1. Do good work
2. Share your process
3. Share your outcomes
4. Make friends with smart people
5. Share the good work of your smart friends

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Sun, Nov 14, 2021 12:32pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 14, 2021 7:05am -08:00)
Becca Lewis https://twitter.com/beccalew

it's honestly too much that our democracy is crumbling, the earth is falling apart, and i also have to see people talking about NFTs and the metaverse

Hillingdon, England

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 3:41pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 12, 2021 1:51pm +00:00)
Benedict Evans https://twitter.com/benedictevans

A history of social networks:
1: Let's connect everyone! People are good! It will be great!
2: Oh shit
3: okay, we need to spend an awful lot of time and thought stopping people from being dicks
Web3: bake all the incentives into code and give all the worst users votes

British Airways Flight 937 DUS to LHR in Hillingdon, England

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 12:25pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 12, 2021 11:16am +00:00)
Hidde https://twitter.com/hdv

Inspired by yesterday's @IndieWebCamp, I reorganised webmentions on my blog for likes and reposts to be a list of names rather than just output what looks like 'comment'. Through a couple of fairly ugly hacks, it saves lots of space!

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Fri, Nov 12, 2021 9:14am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 12, 2021 10:17am +01:00)
Chris Heilmann https://twitter.com/codepo8

CSS is so much fun these days. Defining the font as vh in portrait mode and vw in landscape and then multiplying it with what you need…

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 9:55pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 12, 2021 10:15am +01:00)
PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph

So does FCP. I edited and graded a five camera multicam ProRes RAW DCI on a $999 M1 MacBook Air 8GB and it was flawless.

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 8:44pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 12, 2021 10:05am +01:00)
Tantek Çelik https://tantek.com/

inspired by @csswizardry @btconf, tried ct.css on my homepage (had to disable HTTP CSP), & only 1 green box!

No <script> in <head>, no problem.

If you support Progressive Enhancement (all sites should), scripts can go at end of body, right before </body>

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 5:36am -08:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 11, 2021 9:06pm +01:00)
Johannes Schöning https://twitter.com/JohannesSchoeni

Dark patterns in #hci #interaction #design @sigchi The #LucaApp apparently displays a misleading dialogue for rating the app to get better ratings.People think they rate locations, not the app. Public health apps should be designed to be trustworthy #lucafail #cheating #baddesign

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 5:45pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 11, 2021 8:57pm +01:00) #hci #interaction #design #LucaApp #lucafail #cheating #baddesign
Chris Dixon https://twitter.com/cdixon

web1 maintained strong decentralization of web (http) and email (smtp) all via DNS. If a hosting provider behaved badly you could just switch your domain to point to a new IP and you didn’t lose any data or your position in the network.

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 1:20pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 11, 2021 7:04pm +01:00)
Zhuowei Zhang https://twitter.com/zhuowei

The view-source controversy shows that the Open Web must become decentralized to survive.
Thus, I'm proud to announce ViewSourceCoin, my new NFT ICO where

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Thu, Nov 11, 2021 12:53am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 11, 2021 8:24am +01:00)
Hidde https://twitter.com/hdv

Thanks @jkphl, @MarcThiele and @aaronpk for organising this very hybrid @a11yclub edition, and letting me be a part of it.
🖼 My slides are on https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/Lh9wu2/could-browsers-fix-more-accessibility-problems-automatically
📜A full transcript of a previous version is available too on https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/KKW74X/slides

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Wed, Nov 10, 2021 2:19pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Nov 10, 2021 10:10pm +01:00)
Artur Tagisow https://twitter.com/sudopacmansyu

OAuth allows both native apps and web apps to log in the same way. They probably both use the OAuth "authorization code" flow + refresh tokens. Super long expiry cookies are bad because they also last long if stolen. I recommend the Udemy course on OAuth by @aaronpk

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Wed, Nov 10, 2021 3:42pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Nov 10, 2021 10:10pm +01:00)
Taikonauten https://twitter.com/Taikonauten

Why Do We Really Need OAuth?
Even if you've never heard about OAuth, you've certainly used it in your daily life already. @aaronpk explained how OAuth makes life easier for app developers, and how it enables the best blend of security and usability. Insights from #btconf

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Wed, Nov 10, 2021 8:14pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Nov 10, 2021 10:09pm +01:00) #btconf
Todd Libby 🦞 @ #ConnectTech https://twitter.com/toddlibby

Terrific talk by @TheGreenGreek on Eleventy and webmentions. A lot of great stuff! #ConnectTech

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Wed, Nov 10, 2021 6:46pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Nov 10, 2021 10:09pm +01:00) #ConnectTech

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