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Aaron Parecki

  • MrGibber https://micro.blog/MrGibber   •   Apr 19

    @aaronpk read the summary, probably not for me. However, hats off for clearly starting the audience. Many authors, businesses, schools, etc. would be much better off doing so. I'm basically the opposite of the audience, except I haven't put up the picket fence yet.

    Aaron Parecki
    yeah I get that. fwiw most of the advice is applicable to literally everyone though, so you never know!
    San Francisco, California • 49°F
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  • MrGibber https://micro.blog/MrGibber   •   Apr 18

    @aaronpk how was the book?

    Aaron Parecki
    It's great! Also, a little bird told me there aren't very many copies left so you should buy one now if you're interested before they run out!
    Chicago, Illinois • 49°F
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  • Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/   •   Apr 18

    An unexpected quiet afternoon means time to work on the ol’ website.

    Aaron Parecki
    Your "elsewhere" links are much easier to read than mine
    Chicago, Illinois • 49°F
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  • Eddie Hinkle https://eddiehinkle.com/   •   Apr 17
    Hey! You’re in my area! 👋
    Aaron Parecki
    very briefly!
    Washington, District of Columbia • 49°F
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  • Nortix https://twitter.com/nortix   •   Apr 16
    You've been to my hometown? Did you enjoyed it?
    Aaron Parecki
    Yes! It was a very brief visit but I had a good time!
    Washington, District of Columbia • 49°F
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  • Doctor The research fairy https://scholar.social/@bgcarlisle   •   Dec 10

    ~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

    Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

    Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

    Aaron Parecki
    I actually did this for an online bank password 10 years ago or so. I typed it out repeatedly, but never looked at what I was typing. I used that password for a couple years and literally could not tell you what it was.
    Lyle, Washington • 49°F
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  • Ondřej Pokorný https://social.unextro.net/@ondra   •   Apr 13

    @aaronpk No worries, it's obviously worded just as a reminder. Hope you enjoyed it here in Prague!

    Aaron Parecki
    I made the mistake of riding it to get up to the castle, but it turns out those scooters really don't do well on the cobblestone streets! It was such a bumpy ride!
    Portland, Oregon • 49°F
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  • Ondřej Pokorný https://social.unextro.net/@ondra   •   Apr 13

    @aaronpk That's the local team reminding you that you might get fined for leaving the scooter outside the green zone. Seems like you did that when you were in Prague? :)

    Aaron Parecki
    Uhoh, I definitely left it in the zone, but it was right on the border!
    Portland, Oregon • 49°F
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  • kemayo https://micro.blog/kemayo   •   Apr 13

    @aaronpk So, my logic for manually linking it would be that for, e.g. cross posting to micro.blog, autolinking the plain-text “@aaronpk” might not wind up referencing the user you intended. Forcing a hyperlink to the original instagram user is more reliable...

    Aaron Parecki
    So one thing to keep in mind is that there is no mechanism to send HTML in the "simple" mode, only in the "JSON" mode. In fact it might already be autolinking usernames in that mode, I can't remember now.
    San Francisco, California • 49°F
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  • kemayo https://micro.blog/kemayo   •   Apr 13

    @aaronpk Oh, and I guess if we're going for wishlist-y things... further processing of the reposted text. Making it link usernames in the posts? Maybe strip the #tags?

    Aaron Parecki
    hm most people do the autolinking in their blog software. I could see making an option to remove hashtags, tho only if they appear at the end of the post otherwise it could remove words from the middle of the caption if you use hashtags inline...
    San Francisco, California • 49°F
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  • kemayo https://micro.blog/kemayo   •   Apr 11

    @aaronpk There's probably a notable set of people who're switching from manually-mirroring to automation, and that's the crowd who're going to be annoyed by suddenly having 15 duplicate posts. (It me.)

    Aaron Parecki
    fyi I pushed a change so that it will now only import photos posted after you sign up for OYG. Let me know if you want me to reset your account so you can start over.
    San Francisco, California, USA • 49°F
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  • jw https://micro.blog/jw   •   Apr 12

    @aaronpk @manton Oh! I didn’t realize it was only the first page of new photos; It freaked me out so much When it began posting of previous photos that I just turned it off. I really only want it to start posting photos after I connect it, if that makes sense.

    Aaron Parecki
    yeah, makes sense. I just pushed a change to enable this. It will now only import photos posted after you sign up for OYG. (Tho in your case you signed up a while ago so let me know if you want me to reset this for you)
    San Francisco, California • 49°F
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  • Callie https://twitter.com/calliesaurus   •   Apr 11
    This happens to me constantly! I live in France and a word will either come out in German, Hungarian or Spanish before it comes in French and then, when I try to switch back to those others, French is all I can think of!
    Aaron Parecki
    wow I wish I could speak 4 languages! Still working on German, yesterday I managed to not speak any English in Germany 😄
    Hannover, Niedersachsen • 49°F
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  • manton https://micro.blog/manton   •   Apr 10

    @aaronpk @jw I could see wanting to have a more explicit "post all of these" button, so the default is just new photos. We added batch import from Instagram archives in Micro.blog for macOS, but that's not available to non-Mac users, so full import from OwnYourGram would be really useful too.

    Aaron Parecki
    I still haven't imported my photos from before 2014, so I have a vested interest in this solution too! It's just tricky to think through how this would actually work well from the user's perspective.
    El Prat de Llobregat, Catalunya • 49°F
  • manton https://micro.blog/manton   •   Apr 10

    @jw I don't remember hearing anything about that and didn't notice it in my testing... Maybe @aaronpk can answer definitively.

    Aaron Parecki
    It will post the first page of recent photos, but not everything. Is that bad? Most people ask me to add a feature so they can import the entire history, which I've never gotten around to building. It would be much easier to change this to not import anything from before you started using OYG.
    El Prat de Llobregat, Catalunya, ESP • 49°F
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  • Neojet https://twitter.com/Neojet64   •   Apr 9
    Let's go look steins;gate ! 🤣
    Aaron Parecki
    That's the one! 👍
    Tremblay-en-France, Île-de-France • 49°F
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  • Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli   •   Apr 9
    I think @oredev could definitely be interested, maybe I could find interest within Bonnier News Tech as well (I know we're eg. evaluating some Okta stuff). I'm also still toying with the idea of an IWC in the area 🤔
    Aaron Parecki
    Oh yeah I gave a talk at Øredev in like 2011! That'd be fun to go again!
    Tremblay-en-France, Île-de-France, FRA • 49°F
  • Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli   •   Apr 9
    I really should find you a reason one day to stop by Malmö/Copenhagen or Stockholm, especially now when you seems to be in Europe this often :)
    Aaron Parecki
    Please do! Know any conferences that would like someone to come talk about OAuth? My talk from the last O'Reilly conference was a fun one!
    Tremblay-en-France, Île-de-France • 49°F
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  • Daniel Temkin https://mastodon.social/@rottytooth   •   Apr 8

    @aaronpk I bet it was amazing cheese tho

    Aaron Parecki
    so good
    Clichy, Île-de-France • 49°F
  • Jacky Alciné https://v2.jacky.wtf   •   Apr 8

    Lol not even bread?

    Aaron Parecki
    they brought out just the cheese at first, then came back with a baguette 😅
    Clichy, Île-de-France • 49°F
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