Aaron Parecki

Nice follow-up to @CloudFlare's disaster bug by @1Password ♥️🔐 https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/02/23/three-layers-of-encryption-keeps-you-safe-when-ssltls-fails/ Keep being awesome, 1Password!

Just tested out decoupling my Google Voice number from Hangouts thanks to the new Voice update. Mixed results as of now. After decoupling:

• SMSs are sent and received only through the Google Voice app and voice.google.com, no longer in the Hangouts app.
• The Google Voice app and website don't support making or receiving voice calls at all.
• When I call from the Hangouts app, it still shows my Google Voice number as the caller ID.
• Receiving calls to my number rings through Hangouts *only* on my phone. (It used to also ring through Gmail on my computer.)

Tested using the Google Voice iOS app. Thanks to @eayoungs for helping me test this out!

It's funny to watch old videos of cats because they look just like modern cats. I guess cat fashion hasn't changed. https://archive.org/details/PrivateL1947

Special thanks to @DreamHost for providing pizza and beverages for tonight's Homebrew Website Club! You should come! http://calagator.org/events/1250471409

Excited to announce that next week's Homebrew Website Club will be at DreamHost! https://indieweb.org/events/2017-02-08-homebrew-website-club #indieweb #pdxstartupweek

I have high hopes for @manton2's http://micro.blog Kickstarter project! Today's the last day to back it! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing #indieweb

If you're interested in PGP encryption, come to the Beer of Trust key-signing party next week! Beginners welcome! http://calagator.org/events/1250471374

Aw man, and I *just* bought a new @FitBit too! http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14439028/fibit-layoffs-q4-earnings-report-weak-holiday-sales

If you haven't figured out what all these videos I've been posting are, I figured I'd give a quick update.

Starting at the end of December, I've been writing and publishing one short song per day. They usually end up being a brief sketch, but the goal is to publish something "finished" enough that it could be used in a podcast, TV show, background music, or something similar.

I'm now 40 days into the project, just under half way done! It's been a really interesting experiment so far. Not that these can all be considered complete, but I've now written more songs in the last 40 days than I have ever before, so I'd already consider this a success. The pressure to start and finish something each day is pretty intense. I'm not always happy with each one I publish, but this is more about exercising my ability to come up with something new every day than it is about making something "perfect".

If you want to catch up on the 40 things I've published so far, I've been publishing them to a bunch of different platforms so you have no excuse not to listen to them ;-)

• Podcast available on iTunes and Google Play (search "100 Days of Music")
• Podcast feed: http://podcasts.aaronparecki.com/100daysofmusic/feed.xml
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aaronpk/sets/100-days-of-music
• Add to your Amazon Alexa flash briefing: https://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Parecki-100-Days-Music/dp/B01N1YPGPX/
• And of course my website: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic

It's that time again, my 8th @Jawbone is dying. Does the automatic sleep tracking on @FitBit actually work now?

I really appreciate the amount of work that went into this joke. https://twitter.com/lebenseuche/status/824665931301482496

That feeling of finally letting a domain expire for a project you never launched.

I never thought 45 degrees could feel so warm

@anomalily you're not alone! https://twitter.com/obra/status/822197641672916993

Dear Google. If you're going to cripple your mobile web and force me to the app, make sure all features are actually available in the app!

Got stuck in a research hole looking for a new laptop/travel bag. Can't quite find anything that fits all my requirements though. Must be able to fit the following:

• Laptop: 7.75" x 11"
• Keyboard: 5.5" x 15.25"
• Headphones: flattens to 6.5"x7.5"x1.5" or collapses to 6.5"x5"x3"
• Kindle, notebooks: 5"x7"
• DSLR: 3.5" x 4.5" x 6"
• Battery: 3.5" x 6.5" x .75"
• Various wires and cords

For reference, I can currently fit everything in my small Tumi sling bag, except the keyboard sticks out the top by an inch and so I can't zip up the compartment. That bag would be perfect if it were just a little taller.

I want something that doesn't *look* like a backpack, and is nice enough looking to carry in a semi-professional setting. Most backpacks with two straps are too casual looking, and most of the one-strap slings are too small. More zippers are generally good, since I tend to carry lots of little things that would all get lost in a single compartment.

The only ones I've found so far that are close are:

• https://www.amazon.com/Targus-13-3-Inch-Tablet-Backpack-TSB80704/dp/B00KVLM9GQ
• https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-31374701-Travel-Sling/dp/B00Q845R8W
• https://www.amazon.com/Victoriatourist-Travel-Canvas-Shoulder-Lightweight/dp/B01HU9EE1Y

Any suggestions?

I really need an SSH server running on port 443 so I can tunnel everything on overly-restrictive wifi hotspots.

I'm pretty pleased with the timestamps of both of these posts. One year to the minute!

https://aaronparecki.com/2016/01/12/14/webmention
https://aaronparecki.com/2017/01/12/13/webmention-rec

We did it! Webmention is now a @W3C recommendation! Congrats @SocialWebWG and @IndieWebCamp! https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmention-20170112/ https://twitter.com/w3c/status/819624363645353985

Why do I always feel like fading out a song is cheating?