Aaron Parecki

LinkedIn is what happens when a collection of growth hacks spontaneously evolves into an app.

Shoutout to the Product VP at linkedin that signed off on sending notifications for when someone likes the post you liked

your browser uses so much more RAM than it took to go to the moon because a good general purpose multilingual text and graphics layout engine is, in fact, harder than going to the moon

chef's kiss moment in the cities skylines subreddit as this guy designs an American highway exit suburb and then asks why nobody walks or bikes

indieauth is a deceptively clever spec; still pretty rough around the edges but I do think this unlocks the final boss for identity (and thusly data) sovereignty

Web3 so far feels like people who only know Web2 trying to build Web1 from scratch. I truly feel we'd benefit if more Web3 folks researched existing decentralized projects: IndieWeb, IndieAuth, RSS, ActivityPub, Federated web, etc. We should be using these existing tools imo.

Some of us still like getting up on stage in front of a live audience.

It's getting more difficult to get speakers to show up for events. Once they gear up at home, they like it better without all the travel... which is really expensive.

Attendance also drops dramatically if there's an online option.

It feels like IRL events are sliding off cliff

The problem is that I have one roommate that does electronic music and one roommate that does a bunch of phone stuff like using dial-up modems and I can't tell which one is making the noises I'm hearing.

You think YouTubers are overrated? Try making and publishing a video by yourself.

The YouTubers have officially beaten the mainstream if you look at the numbers the Law YouTubers have pulled the last few weeks vs traditional media, and it’s not even close. The market decides…

Here's another way of framing this: a 30 year old @Stanford computer science grad, with a cumulative 6 months work experience in the tech industry, built a cryptocurrency business that wiped out people's life savings in a matter of days.

Imagine thinking what JSON really needs is XML namespaces and RDF.

5 things the YouTube algorithm hates:

⛹️People immediately bouncing off your videos
⌚️People not watching your videos for very long
🖱️Nobody clicking on your videos
😵‍💫Making off-topic videos
🏃People watching just one video on your channel

a thing I think about a lot is security advice that's basically just wrong because it's written with assumptions about corporate behavior that are not reliable.

Emails will not come from the domain of the company that sent them and companies will call you and ask for your SSN, and often you have no choice but to comply with these or not use those services, because they simply offer no other options.

😮 It's amazing what you can do with modern CSS. These icons are all filters, gradients, clip-paths, and inset box shadows.

Check it out: https://codepen.io/onediv/pen/MWQKgmv

Created by @One_div, discovered in @FrontendHorse.

Just learned more on this mayor: Has been re-elected 4 times since pedestrianising city, air pollution down 61%, no traffic deaths since 2009, 70% move on foot and 12,000 people moved into city centre since car ban.

Quote of the month: "It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." Miguel Anxo, Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain.

It's ok to stop doomscrolling and read a book or watch TV instead tonight.