Aaron Parecki

It's absolutely wild to me that companies will mail me a postcard a few weeks after an Amazon purchase and offer a $150 gift card to leave a review! Is that really profitable? Are they actually going to make back $150 because of my one review?

I'm glad to see that BlueSky supports custom domains! I have zero interest in sitting on a username in the bluesky namespace. Setting it up was roughly the same as pointing your own domain to a hosting provider, and a lot easier than Mastodon/ActivityPub!

This is a post I wrote on my website. With any luck, this will be posted to my BlueSky account too!

another day, another account takeover caused by an open redirector and the OAuth Implicit flow 🫠

https://salt.security/blog/traveling-with-oauth-account-takeover-on-booking-com

Whoever saw these trucks and was like "hey, the FAA rule that prohibits flying drones over people doesn't apply to people inside stationary vehicles" and then flew a drone down the highway deserves a raise https://twitter.com/kgwnews/status/1629221057558376448

New House Files episode is up! Come take a tour of our soggy plywood castle!

https://youtu.be/UmVmC22tLtk

I'm a big fan of using more secure two-factor authentication methods like a security key or TouchID, but I will admit I never expected charging people to use SMS would be a viable strategy to get them off it 😅 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter

🏠 we have a roof! 🏠

Episode 6 of The House Files is out! More talk about designing our kitchen and countertops, and starting to work on the low voltage wiring designs!

https://youtu.be/w6TaPWIVPs8

I've given many talks about how mobile apps can't be deployed with a secret, and using Twitter's 2013 "hacks" as an example. I'm just going to leave this completely unrelated string of random characters here for no particular reason

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PSA: If you use Twitter to sign in to stuff, you should double check you have another way to get in to those accounts asap. With Twitter charging ??? for API access next week, you have no way of knowing whether the apps you use are going to pay that.

Okay shiny black fingernails were fun but wow gel nail polish is really time consuming and messy to remove!

I just made a list of all my expected flights in 2023 and I am just *barely* going to hit @AlaskaAir MVP Gold status (40K) by the very end of the year.

How did I fly so much in 2019?? I hit Gold 75K status by April in 2019! 🤯

I cannot believe how hard it is to submit a podcast to Apple now. To submit a podcast, you need to sign in to Podcasts Connect with your Apple ID.

To get an Apple ID you need to verify an email address and phone number.

To "activate" your Apple ID you need to add a payment method and accept the Apple Media Terms and Conditions.

To accept the Apple Media Terms and Conditions, you need to log in with your Apple ID to an actual iOS or MacOS device.

I had a feeling ChatGPT might be a good application for this... I just uploaded a transcript from one of my course videos and asked it to create multiple choice questions based on the content. It did a surprisingly good job, and only requires minor editing to get the questions to make sense! This is going to save me a lot of time!

Scrambling to get all my work done today that requires power while we still have it. There's already a bunch of neighborhoods without power, I assume we're next.

Winds are gusting to 54mph today!! 💨

I like to think of myself as someone with strong file management skills, but in reality my workflow is like:

• shoot stuff on my iphone
• download drone clips to iphone
• when editing, search thru SD cards but find nothing
• scroll thru camera roll, airdrop clips to computer

AI is cool.

I just finished recording and editing 20 new video lessons for a course.

Uploaded the videos to Sonix and it created a (mostly) accurate transcript.

Uploaded the transcript to ChatGPT and asked it to create a summary of the lesson for the landing page!