Aaron Parecki

Stay safe out there kids https://twitter.com/digitallawyer/status/1181348689756864513

😱 Came home from a trip to a failed hard drive on one of my home servers. Time to put my backup system to the test!

💾 New drive is on its way, warranty return for the old drive is started.

☁️ Once the new drive arrives, I'll attempt to restore it from my local backup. With any luck, that'll work. Otherwise I'll have to get a drive mailed to me from Backblaze.

🚀 Here we go!

I replaced Monocle's Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it's just handled by the browser with no JS.

I always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but I opened up the browser tools to check and it turns out the slowdown was happening while rendering the page, not when fetching external data. Goes to show it's a good idea to open up the browser tools once in a while to check out what's happening under the hood!

If you missed my talk from @APIdaysAU last month, I just posted the video online!

Securing Your APIs with #OAuth 2.0: https://youtu.be/PfvSD6MmEmQ

More signs you might be traveling too much:

You sit down in a chair and instinctively reach to find the seatbelt.

The things people carry on their bikes in Amsterdam never cease to amaze me. In just 15 minutes at this cafe I've seen people carrying: a guitar, children, a rug, grocery bags, a suitcase, two large dogs, a bouquet, four cases of wine. I love how absolutely normal it is too.

Echo Frames - more or less likely to succeed than Google Glass? At least these pretty much look like normal glasses.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4

always a good idea to google "is it safer to crash a plane in water or over land" while mid flight

Pilot: "Flight attendants please take your jump seats"

~* 2 minutes of turbulence *~

Flight attendant: "Please don't take anything off the carts. Leave the carts in the aisle."

On my way to Amsterdam for @IndieWebCamp and @ViewSourceConf!

This 8 hour flight seems like nothing in comparison to last week's 15 hours to Australia!

Still getting used to walking on the right after training myself to walk on the left all last week in Australia

Outlook Web is basically useless on a slow internet connection.

It seems like every click requires a round-trip to the server before it acknowledges the click. Trying to reply to an email? Click "reply", wait until the server acknowledges, then it opens the reply window.

This is exactly how not to build a JavaScript single-page app.

I'll be giving a talk at @APIDaysAU at 1:30pm today! "Securing your APIs with OAuth".

There will be cats, because I know OAuth can be scary at times.

https://www.apidays.co/melbourne

I just discovered a disturbing real-world vulnerability by accident.

A couple hours after checking in to my hotel, I went back to the front desk and said "I need to add someone to my room because her flight gets in late this evening." The clerk asked my room number, and I told her and also said my name. A few seconds later, after asking me to spell the name to add, there's a new name on my room reservation. Nowhere in this process did she check my ID.

Did I accidentally socially engineer my way into adding an unrelated name onto a room reservation?

I do appreciate that the Qantas in-flight video points out that "your flight has great coffee too"

Still surprised that for domestic flights in Australia you can get thru airport security without an ID or boarding pass and can get on the plane with no ID.

Minor moment of panic at the ticket counter trying to get a boarding pass when they said I need a visa before I can check in to the flight to Australia.

Turns out the visa "application" process was just filling out a web form on my phone, and it was "approved" immediately. I was worried I was gonna have to wait a full business day or something but guess not!

Also kind of weird is the ticket agent just had to check a box that said I have the visa, and that person would be fined $5000 if they were wrong. Seems like not the most ideal way to enforce that but okay.

wow I managed to get by from 11pm last night to 10am this morning thinking I was on east coast time rather than central. Thankfully my phone is smarter than me.

oh no it finally happened. I forgot to book a hotel for this trip and only realized when I landed at 11:30pm.