Aaron Parecki

This book by @anomalily definitely helped me get a handle on my money situation. 💵 You should have seen me before. 🙈 And now her Kickstarter for the second print run is just shy of the $10,000 stretch goal! Let's get it over the top! 🚀

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anomalily/a-cats-guide-to-money-illustrated-purrsonal-finance-book

I had fun with this one: 7 Ways an OAuth Access Token is like a Hotel Key Card

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/06/05/seven-ways-an-oauth-access-token-is-like-a-hotel-key-card

Alright, if you are curious about "Sign In with Apple," I walk through exactly how it works and what it looks like in this post.

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/06/04/what-the-heck-is-sign-in-with-apple

#WWDC19 #OAuth #AppleID

Reading all these tweets of people freaking out about Apple requiring apps to use "Sign In with Apple" and feeling another "authentication is not authorization" rant coming. Lots of misunderstanding of sign-in vs accessing APIs. #WWDC19 #OAuth

Initial test of the "Sign in with Apple" API:

• It's more or less based on OAuth + OIDC
• Their documentation is missing a lot of key info to use it right now, I had to guess at a lot of things
• The `sub` claim includes some sort of unique user identifier, not an email

To anyone who thought partial redirect URL matching in @OAuth_2 is "good enough," read this thread. Complete Periscope account takeover just by viewing a tweet. https://hackerone.com/reports/110293 #oauth

If you're in Toronto you should come to my #OAuth talk tomorrow! 🔐 https://regionalevents.okta.com/oktaapiworkshoptoronto

We'll have food and drinks, and we're giving copies of my book to everyone who attends! 📚

I realized I was setting arbitrary due dates on my todo list as a way to prioritize tasks so they'd show up in order of importance, but it turns out that's a terrible technique.

I just did a major refactoring of my Todoist and now I'm using priority 1/2/3 tags for that, and due dates only when a task is really due that day.

I'm still figuring out exactly how to use the priorities, here's what I've got so far:

• p1 - this is top priority, I should do things in this list as soon as possible
• p2 - things that I want top of mind, but can wait until things in p1 are done
• p3 - sort of a catch-all when I want something to bubble up a bit quicker than if it has no priority tag

I also switched my main view in Todoist to a custom filter that shows me:

• tasks due today
• priority 1 tasks not due today
• overdue tasks

I'm going to try to stick to this view as my primary view instead of clicking on the "Today" tab.

#productivity

Good morning! Watch this video

https://vimeo.com/336343886

and then go sign up for IndieWeb Summit in Portland!

https://2019.indieweb.org/summit

#TakeBackYourWeb

it's always important to consider the opposite viewpoint

https://twitter.com/nelson/status/1128064202600357893

I decided to set up a URL shortener on my short domain, aaronpk.com, thanks to some recent discussion in the IndieWeb chat.

I found an open source project that is basically exactly what I would have built if I had built my own: https://polrproject.org/

The installation wasn't seamless, but I'm familiar enough with the tech it's built on so I managed to get it set up. I also made one modification to it, which is that if you type in a short URL that doesn't exist, it redirects to the same path on aaronparecki.com, so that all my regular pages now automatically have a short URL.

This is definitely a lot nicer than my previous solution of adding URLs to a text file.

Yesterday there was cilantro in my soup, and suddenly it tasted so much like soap that I couldn't eat it.

Over the last few months, I've noticed that cilantro has started tasting bad, but didn't really think much of it. I looked up the food sensitivity list of people who also think cilantro tastes like soap, and now I am super confused, because most of these are my favorite flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Specific_food_sensitivities

• Gins, tequilas, and hoppy beers are my favorite
• I eat brussels sprouts, cabbage and kale all the time
• I am a huge fan of coffee, always unsweetened
• grapefruit juice is a staple in my fridge
• I make my own tonic with quinine so that I can make it less sweet and more bitter than normal
• I enjoy ridiculously spicy foods, and I eat raw habaneros for breakfast every morning

So why is cilantro the one that tastes bad to me? And why did this change? I used to enjoy cilantro! I didn't think this sensitivity was something that could change in people over time.

Post-IndieWebCamp hacking continues at the hotel bar! Made a few more minor improvements to Monocle:

• Defaults to "https" when you type in a domain, and if that fails, will fall back to http, rather than the other way around
• Added a logout button
• Added mobile screenshots to the wiki
• Updated the indieauth-client-php library to bubble up things like ssl errors so that apps using the library can report errors better

Second #IndieWebCamp hack day project: how to quickly get started using an IndieWeb reader.

• start with a blank HTML file
• add a rel=me link to your GitHub profile, and make sure your GitHub profile links back
• add a couple `<link>` tags for indieauth.com
• sign in to https://aperture.p3k.io
• add the `<link>` tag it generates for you
• sign in to an IndieWeb reader!

More details at: https://indieweb.org/Microsub#Getting_Started

Photos from IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf day 1 are already posted! 📷 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tollwerk/albums/72157691376106913 Thanks to our amazing photographer @iwontsignuphere

Pretty disappointing response from NextCloud on this (really bad) bug in their desktop sync client.

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1000#issuecomment-489677559

If you are a paying enterprise customer, would you please push on their support if you're having this problem?

I got a lot of questions last week at @ML4ALL about how I was able to turn around the conference videos so quickly, so I put together a little behind-the-scenes video showing a walkthrough of my whole setup and workflow, including biking all the gear in and out! 🚲🎥🎉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKA84wK9ls