Aaron Parecki

Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil • Jun 13
@aaronpk years ago, I wrote a little script that automatically converted a Keynote deck into individual PDF files (one per slide, vector, scalable) and then created a PPTX file out of the result. Not editable, obviously, but a nice shortcut. Sadly, I can’t find the script anymore!

that's.... ridiculous and fantastic

Portland, Oregon, USA

Wed, Jun 12, 2019 5:46pm -07:00
Not Fake Adam Kalsey https://twitter.com/akalsey • Jun 12
I just refuse. You can have pdf if you (quite reasonably) don’t want keynote.

Keynote is just a better authoring environment than PowerPoint. And my choice of tool needs to be optimized for me, the author and not someone else’s desires.

unfortunately it's going into a deck with a bunch of other slides womp womp

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Jun 12, 2019 4:01pm -07:00
Microsoft Office https://twitter.com/Office • Jun 12
That's not what we want! What would make the experience better for you?

i mean the conversion worked reasonably well, it just still takes a lot of fiddling to get things looking just right, since there's always something that goes wrong with font sizes or alignment and such

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Jun 12, 2019 2:22pm -07:00
Zach Leatherman https://twitter.com/zachleat • Jun 12
Hmmmmmmmm, I thought it deduped them but @aaronpk would be the person to ask (sorry Aaron I know I’m at my webmention support quota)

Yes it does! It will also update the content if it's sent again.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Wed, Jun 12, 2019 8:07am -07:00
Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/ • Jun 11

that's a good looking slice

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 5:36pm -07:00
brentsimmons https://micro.blog/brentsimmons • Jun 12
@aaronpk But did you ever actually use it? I never used mine.

I mean, that depends on your definition of "use".

"use" for its original intent? absolutely not.

"use" for things like this? of course :D https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4325

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 5:33pm -07:00
Jun 11
Now and again, maybe once a year, I remember how we all got CueCats for free in the mail.

I had to go down the street to my local Radio Shack to get mine

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 4:49pm -07:00
Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jun 11
Anyone have a print-on-demand service they recommend? I have a couple-hundred-pages PhD dissertation that's relevant to my work I'd like to print out and have on hand.

My book is printed through Lulu.com. I like that they contract with local printers so it's actually cheap to ship to almost any country because the books don't have to go very farl

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 10:57am -07:00
axleyjc https://twitter.com/axleyjc • Jun 11
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication
OAuth is for authorization, not auth'n

You might enjoy this analogy! https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/06/05/seven-ways-an-oauth-access-token-is-like-a-hotel-key-card

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 9:21am -07:00
EdwardHinkle https://github.com/EdwardHinkle • Jun 11
Yeah, 90% of the time this wouldn't apply to me, but I can see the utility. The same way the email clients have the "Unified Inbox" across different email clients. Most the time I want to be able to just look at one category. But sometimes I load my reader and I have like 1-2 posts in 5 different channels. For those instances it would be kind of nice to open up a reader that I knew support this "Unified Unread" and just scroll and read them. I get tired of tapping between the channels when I run into those couple of posts in each channel situations.

Now that you mention it, if I see the unread counts across all channels and there's only a few, I wouldn't mind the unified channel for quickly catching up on everything. However, I would *only* want content from the channels that keep unread counts, not the ones that only show the dot. But that could be a server-side setting that the clients don't need to be aware of.

Portland, Oregon

Tue, Jun 11, 2019 8:26am -07:00
Jamund Ferguson https://twitter.com/xjamundx • Jun 10
It's saying they're all private?

Fixed!

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Jun 10, 2019 4:40pm -07:00
Peter Rukavina https://ruk.ca/ • Jun 10

WebmentionQSL

This is an amazing idea, count me in! I just added my mailing address to my home page h-card! 🤣

Portland, Oregon, USA

Mon, Jun 10, 2019 4:01pm -07:00
Katherine Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jun 9
Yours is custom, isn't it?

yes, very ;-)

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Jun 9, 2019 3:14pm -07:00
Katherine Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jun 9
I don't think so ... let me check. And how do you parse the p-swarm-coins property manually? You have it in the docs, I just can't figure out how to do it.

I don't know how you'd do it in WordPress, but I built special handling of that property into my site to show them.

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Jun 9, 2019 3:12pm -07:00
Katherine Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jun 9
I noticed something weird with http://ownyourswarm.p3k.io and Wordpress. Coins aren't coming back to http://cambridgeport90.net for some reason. @aaronpk, any suggestions? I get mentions from people, though. Thanks!

hmm, they are sent just like regular webmentions, are they getting flagged by akismet or something?

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Jun 9, 2019 1:32pm -07:00
Ton Zijlstra • Jun 9
Letterpress printed QSL cards for successfully sent and received Webmentions must be the most finely targeted joke. The audience very likely not larger than 3 people.

this is an amazing idea please let's make it happen

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Jun 9, 2019 10:52am -07:00
Neil Mather https://doubleloop.net/author/neil/ • Jun 9
IndieWeb is more and more starting to feel like a genuine social network for me. It’s happening slowly, but I’m building up a list of people that I follow in my reader, and I get the odd interaction back here and there. And it’s not all just inside chat about IndieWeb plumbing. Good stuff!

(Not saying it wasn’t already a social network for other people – this is just my own experience. If I’d been blogging to my own site for 20 years, or joined micro.blog, I’m sure I’d be there already!)

#IndieWeb

That's awesome! I feel the same way! Over the last year or so it's actually been able to completely replace most of my use of Twitter and Facebook.

Portland, Oregon

Sun, Jun 9, 2019 10:18am -07:00
Torsten Lodderstedt https://twitter.com/tlodderstedt • Jun 8
lack of code replay protection and proprietary client authentication method?

In my testing, I wasn't able to use an authorization code twice. Did you see something different?

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sat, Jun 8, 2019 8:29pm -07:00
Brock Allen https://twitter.com/BrockLAllen • Jun 8
Or rather an explanation of the thinking as to why it’s so close and why certain things were or were not deemed important to implement

for real! I'm so curious. I can't tell if it was just like one Apple engineer who read OAuth/OIDC and then built this, or if it was actually thought through by a team.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sat, Jun 8, 2019 3:13pm -07:00
Darius Kazemi https://friend.camp/@darius • Jun 8
@aaronpk I don't have a web host per se, just a linode, which doesn't offer that. but I see they offer https://mailinabox.email/ so maybe I'll just try that, though it is overkill

ah yeah. I use DreamHost for my forwarding. I decided to get out of the email deliverability business myself once it started getting too hard to keep up on avoiding getting caught in spam filters. It's just a game I don't want to play anymore, happy to have people with a full time staff deal with that now.

Portland, Oregon

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Sat, Jun 8, 2019 11:22am -07:00

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