Aaron Parecki

like the biggest problem is that mastodon is twitter but open source, so you have all of the same problems twitter has, but with the bonuses of everything being split across a billion unstable shards each with their own unique quirks/features/bugs

Modem sounds.

Forums, there's still some but I learned so much from random forums.

How novel and new and exciting it all felt. "OMG I'm talking to someone who lives in Brazil about Douglas Adams, this is so cool!"

It's amazing how much development, how many startups, and how much funding is going into rebuilding Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver as a web app. (Gutenberg included.)

One year ago I started an experiment. I moved my live YouTube shows to a whole new channel, on the theory that the live shows on the main channel, which get great views while live but then very poor views after (which is understandable), were hurting the main channel. 1/🧵

I know "Layered Semantic Markup" is like 2 decades out of date as the new hotness now, but IMO it's still the best way to build websites. Build something workable in plain old HTML with form posts and stuff. Add JS to improve functionality. Add CSS to make it stylish and pretty.

the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.

man what’s the point of “we’re putting ourselves on THE BLOCKCHAIN” as an april fools joke. it’s obviously a fucking joke the other 364 days of the year too

Today is Domain-Return-Day.

To prevent the global domain crisis and to alleviate the pressure on your wallet, today is the day to go through all the domain names you acquired over the years for projects you never started and never will.
Return these domains collecting dust.

Ah I can’t believe Facebook did something unethical

We are literally delaying a product launch because of it

Advice from my 8 year old: "Clock maths is not real maths"

I really think he's onto something

I’m between 3 and 4 now which means we’ll be close to success after a lil breakdown 😂 brb

finally got one of those SMS spam texts from my own number that I'd heard about online and let me tell you: it sucks that there's no way to block future spam from these evil jerks wtf

Structure to help me try to stay focused and giving me some space at the same time.

Showing @aaronpk the local wild hamsters.

This one was particularly friendly!

I like it but I think I’d move it farther out of frame so you don’t see the farthest edge

Just realised I only included 1 female creator, so here you go🙌 https://twitter.com/leokellr/status/1508061375934967820

Got some inspiration for my new talking head setup🙌🏻

I have a weird hangup about relying in pre-written libraries to implement OAuth authentication, so I spent a bunch of time today figuring out how to sign in against @auth0 from first principles https://til.simonwillison.net/auth0/oauth-with-auth0

THE KEYBOARD HAS BEEN A PRIMARY METHOD OF ENTERING ENGLISH TEXT TO BE PRINTED SINCE LIKE 1870 AND FOR SOME REASON AFTER 130 YEARS WE DECIDED TO DO FINGERPAINTING WITH AN AGGRESSIVE ROBOT EDITOR INSTEAD.

THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE