Aaron Parecki

We were promised that USB-C would solve all our connectivity problems.

Instead, I have two USB-C ports on this laptop, only one of which is Thunderbolt, which is worse because they look identical but act different. Also apparently only some USB-C cables support Thunderbolt too.

I finally started documenting all the home automation devices and apps I use, with the main goal of everything running locally! Here's a fun list to browse through if you're looking for some holiday shopping ideas!

https://aaronparecki.com/home-automation/

Last year, I finally got in the habit of catching up on my business accounting every 2 weeks. 💵 This year, I haven't even opened quickbooks since August. I really need to get back on track with that or tax season is going to be really painful.

why yes I did just plug a USB-C hard drive into a USB-A port and was confused why the computer didn't recognize it.

I blame the fact that I just got off a 14 hour flight.

OH: "at the end of the day, a specification is a programming language designed to run on the worst runtime environment: engineers" @justin__richer #ietf106

Just posted a page with the full agenda and links to related specs we'll be discussing at the #IETF106 OAuth meetings this week!

https://oauth.net/events/2019-11-ietf106/

Remote participation is free if you're into that sort of thing.

Despite sleeping only 3 hours on the flight, my fingernails grew like I slept 10

I'm trying to psych myself into believing this 18 hour flight isn't that bad by remembering that 100 years ago it was completely unimaginable that you'd be able to travel from the US to a remote island in Asia in less than a day.

The videos and slides from my talks last week at #oredev are posted!

How to Hack OAuth
📺 https://vimeo.com/371495209
📃 https://speakerdeck.com/aaronpk/how-to-hack-oauth-oredev-2019

Smarter Home Automation Without the Cloud
📺 https://vimeo.com/371873292
📃 https://speakerdeck.com/aaronpk/smarter-home-automation-without-the-cloud

wow #oredev is fast with the videos! My "How to Hack OAuth" talk is already posted!

📺 https://vimeo.com/371495209
📜 https://speakerdeck.com/aaronpk/how-to-hack-oauth-oredev-2019

Slides from my talk at #oredev today are posted!

"Smarter Home Automation without the Cloud"

It was fun geeking out about home automation for 40 minutes! I'll make sure to post again when the video is out!

https://speakerdeck.com/aaronpk/smarter-home-automation-without-the-cloud

Last night at the #oredev speaker dinner I got to participate in either an old Swedish tradition or an elaborate prank they play on foreigners: alternating between the sauna and jumping into the Baltic Sea three times.

Either way it was a fun experience. 😆

Slides from my "How to Hack OAuth" talk at #oredev are up!

https://speakerdeck.com/aaronpk/how-to-hack-oauth-oredev-2019

Thanks everyone for coming to watch and I hope you got something out of it! I'll post again when the video is out!

Trying to use emoji in my slides and I have some questions:

1) why is there no "window" emoji
2) why is there a floor lamp in the couch 🛋 emoji
3) why is there only a lightbulb 💡 on, but not off

for april 1 next year I think I'm going to change the oauth.net home page to show just a login page that asks you to type in your google username and password and see what happens 😎

It seems to be socially acceptable to watch videos on your phone with the sound turned on in public places like restaurants and cafes in Memphis. I've seen *so many* people of all ages here doing it, and nobody seems to complain. Is this a regional thing?

welp, the rumors were true, Google did in fact buy FitBit: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943318/google-fitbit-acquisition-fitness-tracker-announcement

I *want* to switch to an Apple watch, but I can't until it has built-in automatic sleep tracking like the FitBit does!