Aaron Parecki

The governor has declared a state of emergency and asked all Californians to not run `npm install` between 4 PM and 9 PM today in an effort to save energy.

A man in McDonald’s just ordered an apple pie and the cashier said “would you like to do two apple pies instead” while giving no reasoning or context and the man said “yes.” I demand all conversations moving forward to be this way. Efficient, goal-oriented, apple pie adjacent.

Apple Watch Ultra is perfect for those aspirational folks who buy a giant truck then use it exclusively to drop their kids off at school.

In the age of cell phones, the area code has become the ancestral clan name or heraldry. It is a marker of old stories, loyalties, a statement that says "there was a land I came from but am there no longer"

This looks like an absolutely incredible product for people who have much more hardcore lives than I do

Mt. Rainier appears to be venting. 🗻 @komonews currently has a call in with @MountRainierNPS to confirm. Stay tuned. #wawx #komonews

Keynote predictions.

Apple: We gave a professional cinematographer this new iPhone and they made a whole movie with it which won an Oscar.

Me: Takes slightly better pictures of squirrels.

some kind of scheme where nerds who want to set up static site generators and don't actually want to write blog posts are paired up with writers who want a nice blog setup and don't want to have to understand how technology works

I can't believe most major apps in which we buy digital goods have broken their purchasing process to force you out of the app & onto the web to avoid the platform tax & we've just sorta accepted this huge hit to ease-of-use and no one seems to be complaining or talking about it

Tiny design detail: nested border radii look really funky if they're the same. To maintain the same curvature, the outer radius = inner radius + padding.

One more time for the brands in the back

OktaとPing Identityの方々を中心にOAuth2.0のベストプラクティスをまとめたらしい

まだ読めてないからメモ

This entire thread is crucial reading for understanding what is happening in entertainment right now, but the TLDR is basically we going through a second era of vertical integration with studios creating their own streaming sites due to rollbacks of antitrust legislation.

I'm a little tipsy and explaining to a friend how Hollywood is essentially crumbling for profit and it's interesting so I'm going to make it a thread.

Strap in.

Bankruptcy Goes to Hollywood: A Thread

dear younger people, the default mode of websites used to be “here is everything in chronological order, sorted into categories that you can browse at your leisure”

the reward-system-mining approach that Tiktok, Instagram, and others now take was a step away from the norm

PETRIFYING THOUGHT: in another 28 months, we will have exited the first quarter of the 21st century, and will thus arguably be entering "mid-21st century"

😱💀😱💀😱

This thought brought to you by searching for a product which has a lot of vintage/antique mid-20th-C hits 😬

Same goals! 👍🏻

I think developers focus so much of their energy on new dev tools because the barrier to shipping useful things in that space is so much lower, and you also generate interest from your peers.

in the 90s the internet used to scream at you when you tried to enter and they should never have taken that warning away

When people stand near a boarding gate, knowing they are in a group that is not yet called, but adjacent to those who are boarding, what does it signify? Do they feel that permission to board the plane will rub off on them? Do they imagine their ticket is contingent on proximity?