Aaron Parecki

I'm curious, does anyone else remember a time on the Internet when "LOL" meant "lots of love"? Pretty sure I used to sign emails that way.

@tweethue I keep seeing references to being able to connect motion sensors or other ZigBee devices to the hub. Is that supported right now?

Notes from editing the #cyborgcamp livestream footage:

• Make sure hosts and speakers do not start out by saying "so..." I think this is possible if there is more of a theatrical entrance rather than having them already at the front talking with organizers before talking to the audience.
• Do a sound check with each speaker before-hand. Not because a sound check is necessary from the technical side, but to give the speakers a sense of how the mic works and to give you a chance to tell them how to hold it and to know how loud they will be.
• Ask audience members to stand up and give them a microphone for questions.
• Give the speakers an easy and obvious way to pick up and return the microphones.

Questions:
• Need an appropriate way to end each speaker after Q&A. Probably a "thank you" from the host. This provides a nice "outro" to some closing music/title sequence.

@thejulielogan Nailed it! It all makes sense now. #piedemo

The new @Delta safety video has a Tribbles reference. Nice.

Successfully went to a restaurant, ordered, ate and paid and spoke entirely in German. The waitress didn't even attempt to try to speak English with me! How many Duolingo points do I get for that?

Anyone who wants an account on webmention.io for receiving webmentions, send me a comment here with your domain name and I'll make an account! #bordernone

Welcome to the border:none "creator unit" for working on your own website! Hopefully by the end of the day everyone can reply to this post from their own websites!

Just launched a bunch of #p3k updates:

• Webmention handler now accepts a "vouch" parameter. If you send one, it will attempt to verify the vouch and reject the mention if the vouch is not approved. For backwards compatibility right now, webmentions are still accepted without a vouch parameter.
• Webmentions that are vouched will show the URL that vouched for them alongside the comment.
• Inbound links from referers are tracked internally which I will eventually use when trying to find a vouch URL when I want to send one.
• I am now indexing domains that I link to, which is used internally for webmention approval, but is also exposed at a URL structure like http://aaronparecki.com/links-to/tantek.com
• Imported my entire food logs from August 2013, so my date permalinks since then now show everything I've eaten: http://aaronparecki.com/2014/01/01

15 years ago I made a static website generator with Excel and Word. Excel was the data source and Word mail merge generated the files. #originalhipster

I really lucked out on this PDX ✈️ AMS flight! Nobody next to me and a power outlet at my seat! #travel

I just bought a fax number so I can receive an invoice from someone because his emails aren't coming through. Technology fail.

Super excited to be heading to Germany to give an #indieweb talk and workshop at border:none! https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c61

Going to start IndieWebCamp Day 2 by working on http://indiewebcamp.com/vouch

• Step 1: create an approval algorithm
• Step 2: when accepting webmentions, check against the approval algorithm
** if the source passes your initial approval algorithm, accept the webmention as normal
** if the source does not pass, return HTTP 449 to indicate the sender should re-try sending with a vouch parameter
• Step 3: when a webmention comes in with a vouch, check webmention as normal, then verify the vouch:
** check if I approve the vouching domain (it passed my approval algorithm)
** fetch the vouch URL, verify that it actually does link to the source's domain without rel=nofollow
** if vouch verification fails, return HTTP 400

"No no no, you *railed* it!" - @obra to @benwerd after solving the issue in the first 30 seconds. #indiewebcamp

We'll be livestreaming all the #indiewebcamp sessions in the main room today! http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Cambridge/Live

We're starting #indiewebcamp Cambridge this morning with demos! Follow along with the livestream: http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Cambridge/Live

Notes from today's livestreaming of #cyborgcamp:

Things I need to bring next time:
• extension cords for both video cameras
• HDMI repeater so the cameras can be farther from the switcher
• Gaffer's tape!

Operations:
• One stationary camera is fine, but it would be super useful to have a camera operator on another camera who can pan and zoom the camera to get better shots, especially when the audience is asking questions.
• Need to leave a computer online at home with a large hard drive running Bittorrent Sync, so that I can have an off-site copy of the video after downloading the footage to my on-site hard drive.

Unanswered questions:
• How can I get a single channel of audio coming from room mics to be duplicated to the left and right digital channels that are being broadcast?

Hanging out at MIT media lab is like seeing the Internet in real life

CyborgCamp MIT livestream is up! http://cyborgcamp.com/livestream/ (This is my first time streaming with this setup, so apologies if it's a little rough!)