Aaron Parecki

Thing I learned today: it's a good idea to occasionally take off the wheels of your rolly suitcase and clean them, because they pick up a lot of carpet fiber and hair from rolling around dozens of airports for a few years.

I'd share a photo but it's gross 😅

Well that's quite the sentence:

"Facebook has built its empire on the ability to acquire intimate details about user behavior across the internet"

https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/24/app-tracking-transparency-harmful-says-facebook/

Do I know anyone involved with @LoginDotGov? I found a few (minor) issues with the OAuth/OpenID docs there https://developers.login.gov/oidc/

I sold a washer/dryer on Facebook Marketplace, and now it's showing me new listings for washer/dryers. Glad to see the algorithm hard at work here.

So I've been spending my Saturday night preparing for tomorrow's livestream by reading up on all the details of YouTube's Content ID system and reading the licenses of various royalty free music sites, and all it's doing is making me more and more angry about the whole system...

PSA to fellow creators who use @artlist_io you might want to avoid using "Anthem of a Quirky Hipster" for a while... Seems like a comedian published the song in a comedy album and now YouTube is flagging any use of it thinking he owns the copyright to it.

https://artlist.io/song/3091/anthem-of-a-quirky-hipster

Pretty neat trick Wordle used to migrate everyone's saved game state:

The main Wordle site was replaced with a bit of JS that grabs the game data from LocalStorage and puts it in the query string when redirecting to nytimes.

Also notable: that code is vanilla JS, no libraries!

oops, I accidentally viewsourced wordle and it turns out the next day's words are already chosen and visible in the source code. Don't look if you don't want to be spoiled!

Wordle 216 1/6

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Dear @Eventbrite, I have an account, so please make sure it is not possible for other people to sign me up for events with only my email address. I've been added to dozens of events over the last two weeks and it's an interesting new vector for spam. @EventbriteHelp

Fellow conference speakers! I'm tired of posting my slides on Speakerdeck, I want to host them on my own website.

What awesome tools are there for doing this in a way that looks as close to Speakerdeck as possible? I'm thinking maybe an old-school JS slideshow viewer?

Just used this handy XKCD chart to determine that it was finally time to build a web interface on top of this little PHP script that generates PDFs of checks, rather than continuing to hack up this code by hand every time I need to print one. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time_2x.png

It's okay nobody really knows how maps work anyway https://twitter.com/lavenderashtray/status/1479285712641875968

software you've purchased that auto-updates to a new version and makes you buy a new license is worse than software that is just a straight subscription model, just saying

If you just finished watching The Matrix Resurrections, next go watch Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. You won't regret it I promise.

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It took me almost an hour to add timestamps to my nearly 4 hour livestream all about the ATEM Mini Pro from yesterday! We covered everything from the ground up including basic switching and transitions, audio, adding custom graphics and more!

https://youtu.be/mtFe6YOcL7M