Aaron Parecki

Gentle reminder for legitimate businesses to not imitate scammers in their official communications to users https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

a couple months ago I started locking the cats in the bathroom while I prepare their food, otherwise they'd climb on top of me and eat it all before I could serve it.

But now they've started locking themselves in the bathroom in order to manifest food...

I just learned far more about emoji and unicode than I thought I ever would need to, but I managed to update my emoji detection library to support Emoji 15.1!

The library just passed 1 million downloads too 😮

If kittens eat twice as much as adult cats, why does their food come in cans that are half the size? 🤨

I'm planning out my travel for the year, and now that Brisbane is scratched, I'm barely going to hit Alaska MVP Gold. And if I buy the annual lounge pass, even with the signup bonus discount, it will work out to about $35 per visit.

Today I learned about supercooling, where a liquid can get below its freezing point without ice forming.

I found a half-drunk bottle of coke in the construction site that was still liquid. As soon as I moved it, the whole thing instantly turned to ice!

I was approximately .1% confident that I would be able to actually spend my LP FSA money that rolls over to 2024 since I won't quality for an FSA next year and they're also changing FSA providers. So I just spent the rest of the money on new glasses. 😎

I took the high speed train from Miami to Orlando and I am convinced we need more of this! https://aaronparecki.com/2023/12/01/18/riding-brightline-train-miami-orlando

Official Orlando departure announcement from the captain:

"The forecast in Portland is about the same as here except it's cold and windy and rainy"

welp, managed to go a whole year without a major airline snafu until my last work trip of the year. Flight from Miami to Portland was cancelled, and all the other options from Miami were bad. So I'm taking the Brightline train to Orlando and getting on a direct flight to Portland tonight!

I'm excited that my last two trips of the year are both to beach towns in the US, which means an excellent opportunity for some drone flying! My last couple trips have been to places with too strict drone laws so I didn't bother bringing it.

Yesterday I cracked open XCode for the first time in a few years and did a marathon coding session on my GPS tracker app, Overland! I fixed a backlog of issues and added a few new features!

If you'd like to beta test it before I push out the update, you can join the TestFlight beta here! https://overland.p3k.app/beta

As predicted, it's only 7pm but i feel like I've been up for 24 hours, probably because I have. PRG-LHR-LAX-PDX-ZZZ😴

This is a good writeup on some sneaky vulnerabilities in OAuth implementations, but ultimately is just a simple access token injection attack: https://salt.security/blog/oh-auth-abusing-oauth-to-take-over-millions-of-accounts

The deadline to submit drafts ahead of the IETF meeting in November just passed, and I submitted my last one with 30 minutes to spare! Here are all the docs I'll be discussing:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-browser-based-apps-15.html

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-resource-metadata-01.html

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-parecki-oauth-first-party-apps-00.html

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-parecki-oauth-metadata-for-nested-flows-00.html

was it absolutely necessary to run cables for ceiling mics in 5 rooms? definitely not. but now I am all set up to film a reality show 😂

I woke up before taking a pizza out of the oven in a dream and now that's going to be bugging me all day

I know "I hope this message finds you well" is a normal way to start an email, but what about if I am in fact not well? Am I supposed to say thanks but this message didn't find me well??

I'm cooking dinner and I just asked my cat "why are you standing in exactly the place I need to be" and then realized I answered my own question

I spent most of the day working on Meetable, my event listing website that powers https://events.indieweb.org and a few other sites. Some great new features and bugfixes!

• Added passkeys for admin login
• "Live Now" indicator is now aware of the actual Zoom meeting status
• Zoom meeting updates if event time changes
• Added tooltip to show local time on event pages