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Aaron Parecki

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  • Aaron Parecki
    So let me get this straight.

    1: you put SSNs in plaintext on a web page
    2: you get mad that someone clicked "view source"
    3: your actual Highway Patrol patrols the information superhighway?

    😂😂😂

    https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 52°F
    103 likes 41 reposts 17 replies 2 mentions
    Thu, Oct 14, 2021 12:50pm -07:00 #hacking
  • Aaron Parecki

    I'm running a giveaway with @comica_audio for the new VDLive10 USB microphone!

    🎙️ I demoed this microphone on my most recent livestream. It's a super cute dual capsule microphone, and has one special trick up its sleeve! The wireless mic transmitters are actually bidirectional, which means you can use it with Zoom! If you plug in headphones into the transmitter, you will both send your audio into Zoom, as well as hear the audio from the Zoom call! I was super surprised that this worked so well.

    The receiver connects via USB-C and works great with an iPad for recording on the go or using with video conferencing apps like Zoom!

    🎁 Check out this link for how to enter the giveaway! It runs until I announce the winners on my livestream on October 25th!

    Thanks to Comica for sending me this mic to review and for sponsoring the giveaway!

    Portland, Oregon • 51°F
    Tue, Oct 12, 2021 1:40pm -07:00 #microphone #wirelessmic #vdlive10 #comica #filmmaker #podcast #giveaway
  • Aaron Parecki
    This 100% matches my feelings about programming, which might explain why I continue to stick with PHP as my language of choice https://twitter.com/woketopus/status/1447150924846313475
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 51°F
    18 likes 1 repost
    Sun, Oct 10, 2021 6:33am -07:00 #php
  • Aaron Parecki
    At the end of the day, OAuth is just a way to communicate between services and users, and as such it's easy to grasp and non-controversial.

    OAuth solved a universal problem – signing into a web site – and, in doing so, created a new problem: how does a site know it's really you?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    16 likes 4 reposts 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 6:01pm -07:00 #oauth #ai
  • Aaron Parecki
    I like giving talks, but I hate writing talk abstracts! How do I fix this?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    12 likes 2 reposts 20 replies
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:37pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    Join me and @vibronet tomorrow for another OAuth Happy Hour! This week seems like a good week to talk about what happens when "Sign In with Facebook" is down.

    📅 Oct 7 4pm Pacific

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3a3-JV-dl0
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 51°F
    9 likes 1 mention
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 9:28am -07:00 #oauth
  • Aaron Parecki
    Instagram may be down, but my photo grid on my website is looking sharp! https://aaronparecki.com/photos #indieweb
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 62°F
    31 likes 5 reposts 1 mention
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:37pm -07:00 #indieweb
  • Aaron Parecki
    you know what's *not* down right now?

    my blog ⬇

    https://aaronparecki.com/
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F
    54 likes 4 reposts 19 replies 3 mentions
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:03am -07:00 #facebook #indieweb
  • Aaron Parecki
    First plot on my #AxiDraw was successful!

    This is a sha256 hash of my name, each ring represents 4 characters of the hash.

    A hash is a transformation of an arbitrary-sized value into another value of fixed size. Hash functions that are one-way, i.e. cannot be reversed, are the basis of modern cryptography and security on the Internet. Given this image, you wouldn't be able to reverse it to find out the original string, but every time I run the hash on the same string it will output the same value.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F
    5 likes 2 reposts
    Sun, Oct 3, 2021 6:48pm -07:00 #generativeartworks #axidraw #plotparty #generativeart #algorithmicart #cryptography #sha256 #2d
  • Aaron Parecki
    My first attempt at computational line art!

    This image is a representation of a sha256 hash of an input string, my name. Each ring represents 4 characters of the hash, and is the binary representation of the character's ascii value.

    A hash is a transformation of an arbitrary-sized value into another value of fixed size. Hash functions that are one-way, i.e. cannot be reversed, are the basis of modern cryptography and security on the Internet. Given this image, you wouldn't be able to reverse it to find out the original string, but every time I run the hash on the same string it will output the same value.

    The next step is to load this into my #AxiDraw and plot it on some actual paper!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 70°F
    6 likes 1 repost
    Sat, Oct 2, 2021 5:05pm -07:00 #generativeartworks #plotparty #generativeart #algorithmicart #sha256 #cryptography #2d #lineart #axidraw
  • Aaron Parecki
    Unexpected side benefit of #AirTags is confirmation that your checked luggage is in fact on the plane with you
    San Francisco, California, USA • 70°F
    28 likes 2 reposts 7 replies
    Fri, Oct 1, 2021 7:39pm -07:00 #apple #travel #airtags
  • Aaron Parecki
    at Salesforce Park
    San Francisco, California • Thu, September 30, 2021 5:33pm
    37.789005 -122.397025
    San Francisco, CA, United States • 82°F
    26 Coins
    Thu, Sep 30, 2021 5:33pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    at Okta Inc
    San Francisco, California • Thu, September 30, 2021 12:13pm
    37.789491 -122.397307
    San Francisco, CA, United States • 77°F
    1 like 51 Coins
    Thu, Sep 30, 2021 12:13pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    at BEI Hotel San Francisco
    San Francisco, California • Wed, September 29, 2021 3:07pm
    37.77757 -122.41427
    San Francisco, CA, United States • 76°F
    25 Coins
    Wed, Sep 29, 2021 3:07pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    I got @speedify running on a #YoloBox! Check out the link in my bio for the step by step how-to video!

    Why might you want to do this? Speedify lets you bond multiple internet connections for faster and more reliable livestreams, and since the yolobox has LTE, WiFi and Ethernet, it's amazing to be able to run Speedify directly to take advantage of all those connections at the same time!

    Thanks to @yololivtech for sending me these to review, and thanks to @speedify for the premium account to test this out!

    #livestream #yolobox #streaming #streamingsetup
    Portland, Oregon • 58°F
    Tue, Sep 28, 2021 3:37pm -07:00 #yolobox! #livestream #yolobox #streaming #streamingsetup
  • Aaron Parecki
    Join me in 20 minutes over on YouTube for a conversation with @bartosz_io about the future of #OAuth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPeulphAj6I
    Portland, Oregon • 53°F
    8 likes 4 reposts
    Tue, Sep 28, 2021 9:41am -07:00 #oauth
  • Tab

    5 out of 5
    This app is fantastic! It's the only app I've used that splits receipts so quickly and easily, and I've tried a lot!
    Tab Aaron Parecki 2021-09-27T19:22:00-07:00 permalink

    The Good

    This is by far the best app for splitting receipts. It's mainly designed for splitting receipts out at a restaurant/bar, but works equally as well for splitting things like grocery receipts.

    You start by taking a picture of the receipt and it does a decent job of auto-recognizing all the items on the receipt. Then you start adding people and assigning items on the receipt to which people had them. If two people shared an item, you can tag both people on that item, and it splits it between everyone who shared that item.

    After you've categorized all the items on the receipt, you can enter how much you want to tip, and it will also split the tip proportionally based on how much everyone's share of the bill was! At the end, you get a nice list of each person and how much they owe.

    The app has nothing to do with actually transferring money between people, so you're expected to either have everyone throw the right amount of cash on the table, or have everyone send money electronically to the one person who pays the bill. It's great because it is specifically designed to just split the receipt, so it's super optimized for just that task.

    The Not-So-Good

    Don't expect to be able to get back to any past receipts in this app, it's not for recording a history of things, it's really more an in-the-moment kind of app.

    The app does have a way to have other people join a bill to split a bill live instead of scanning a receipt, but I am much less impressed with that feature. It seems to be a bit complicated to join a receipt and is then more limited in how you can use it while in that mode.

    Portland, Oregon • 55°F
    1 mention
    Mon, Sep 27, 2021 7:22pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    at German American Society
    Portland, Oregon • Sat, September 25, 2021 9:55am
    45.542275 -122.605579
    First day of German school — with anomalily
    Portland, OR, United States • 67°F
    anomalily.world
    28 Coins
    Sat, Sep 25, 2021 9:55am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    at Bar Bar
    Portland, Oregon • Thu, September 23, 2021 5:09pm
    45.551559 -122.675729
    Portland, OR, United States • 72°F
    54 Coins
    Thu, Sep 23, 2021 5:09pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    The stripes are lava #AI #ML #RobotRevolution https://twitter.com/dimakrotov/status/1436150021792149506
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 65°F
    6 likes
    Mon, Sep 20, 2021 8:55pm -07:00 #ai #ml #robotrevolution
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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