Aaron Parecki

Good news! The Sunday night and Monday morning PCR tests both came back negative! That makes me confident enough that I will continue to get negative results for when I need the PCR test for the flight.

However, the antigen test this morning still is positive. The covid officer says that one might continue to give positive results for a week or longer.

So that means I need to use the PCR test result to get the flight home. The trouble is it takes 12-24 hours to get those results back and I need a test from the previous day in order to get on the flight. If I drop the test off before 9am it *usually* comes back around 9-10pm the same day, so that essentially means I'll book the flight and then not know if I'll be actually able to get on it until the night before.

I'm currently planning on coming back on Thursday. I also still don't feel *great* right now, so I'm hoping an extra couple days will leave some room for improvement too.

But in other good news, my sense of smell has come back this evening and I can taste food again!

oh hey, I can actually kind of taste this Gouda cheese. Not sure if that's because my smell is recovering or because Gouda is a super strong flavor tho 🤷‍♂️

Bad news, the rapid antigen test is still positive. But I am apparently still allowed to go outside because I have the negative PCR test and finished the quarantine period.

Looks like the theory is it's most contagious from a few days before symptoms develop to a few days after, so I'm significantly less contagious now. Plus of course still masking. Anyway, will probably spend the rest of the day inside the hotel room anyway.

So I guess that means it's too early to book a flight out of here still. I need a negative test to get the boarding pass for the flight, and the PCR tests take ~12-24 hours to come back, so it will have to be an antigen test. At least now I can go outside to do the rapid antigen test every day now.

Good news! Yesterday morning's test came back negative! I'm definitely still feeling a little bit sick though, but the covid officer says I can go outside with a mask on now!

Since today is Sunday and things are closed, my morning test probably won't come back until late Monday night. Time to go do a rapid antigen test to double check the negative result now.

Not being able to taste anything sure puts a damper on my interest in eating. I'm sure that avocado toast was delicious though.

on second thought, uploading this 20gb video to youtube on hotel wifi may not be the best plan

I'm sitting in my hotel room eating this müsli with yogurt and strawberries thinking "wow these strawberries sure don't have much flavor" ...and then it hit me...

I opened up Thursday's leftovers of extremely pungent lentil salad with blue cheese and it doesn't smell like anything either.

The only thing I can smell is the hand sanitizer which frankly was way too smelly before, that and a hint of coffee.

Gotta love IETF conferences. I connect to the event wifi and discover that my laptop has a publicly routable IPv4 address 😮

Thanks for having me! It was so fun to see all the 3D printers at work making my stands!

https://twitter.com/Inux3D/status/1504864529108418560

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!