Aaron Parecki

EJ Fox 🌞 https://twitter.com/mrejfox • Aug 29
This looks really awesome, thank you for laying all this groundwork. People like you make me hopeful in a time when hope is rare!

Thanks! There's an indiewebcamp coming up in your neck of the woods soon too! You're more than welcome to join! https://2019.indieweb.org/nyc

Portland, Oregon

Thu, Aug 29, 2019 4:16pm -07:00
EJ Fox 🌞 https://twitter.com/mrejfox • Aug 29
There is no reason that your personal website couldn't ping my personal website when you post an awesome new photo, and yet the entirety of some artists' work is held in an Instagram profile- these are choices we have made as developers, creators, and as a society

There's definitely a growing worldwide community doing exactly this right now! #indieweb

Here are my photos: https://aaronparecki.com/photos

Here is how everything fits together https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet

Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 29, 2019 3:24pm -07:00 #indieweb
Matthew Somerville https://twitter.com/dracos • Aug 29
[I don't know what happened with your reply there? It might be leaking your location?]

I realise that; I was replying to Phil with something that would work for his instructions (of which step 1 was creating your own Foursquare app).

Fixed my site, thanks, here is the actual reply: https://aaronparecki.com/2019/08/29/12/

Portland, Oregon, USA

Thu, Aug 29, 2019 11:36am -07:00
Matthew Somerville https://twitter.com/dracos • Aug 29
[I don't know what happened with your reply there? It might be leaking your location?]

I realise that; I was replying to Phil with something that would work for his instructions (of which step 1 was creating your own Foursquare app).

holy crap well that's a fun bug

Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 29, 2019 11:30am -07:00
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Aug 29
My tool is coming together! Sadly I am without either Wifi or tethering for my laptop so I can only share this preview photo...

🎉 fantastic!

Portland, Oregon

Thu, Aug 29, 2019 11:19am -07:00
Matthew Somerville https://twitter.com/dracos • Aug 29

Foursquare requires the client secret, simon doesn't want to ship the secret in the code, so the only way to do it is for simon to host a web service that acts as a relay.

Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 29, 2019 10:56am -07:00
Phil Gyford https://twitter.com/philgyford • Aug 29
When I wrote a script to get all of a user’s checkins to make an ical feed I couldn’t find anything and ended up with the laborious instructions here https://github.com/philgyford/foursquare-feeds

It definitely exists, I use it for copying my checkins going forward to my website. I just haven't done the full import of past checkins yet. https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/api/users/checkins

Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 29, 2019 10:42am -07:00
Nick Doty https://octodon.social/@npd • Aug 29
@aaronpk but the carbon emissions of that air commute are much, much greater, even compared to long car commutes!

That is very true, which is why I'm glad I don't actually commute every day :-)

Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 29, 2019 7:42am -07:00
Daniel Ehniss https://twitter.com/depone • Aug 29
Is http://ownyourgram.com not working for me or anybody else? // cc @aaronpk #IndieWeb

yes, we've been playing a cat and mouse game trying to keep it working. Not looking good right now.

Portland, Oregon

Thu, Aug 29, 2019 7:02am -07:00
Micah Silverman https://twitter.com/afitnerd • Aug 29
Me (in Australia): It took me a bit to get used to how all your power outlets have individual switches.

My mate (I use the word mate now): You mean in America the power to all the outlets is on all the time?

Me: yup

My mate: Well, that's just fucking dangerous!

also I'm imagining someone saying that in an australian accent and it is great

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 11:19pm -07:00
Micah Silverman https://twitter.com/afitnerd • Aug 29
Me (in Australia): It took me a bit to get used to how all your power outlets have individual switches.

My mate (I use the word mate now): You mean in America the power to all the outlets is on all the time?

Me: yup

My mate: Well, that's just fucking dangerous!

Last weekend I was chatting with a friend who does forensic investigation of fires and it turns out electrical outlets are ACTUALLY REALLY DANGEROUS omg. Don't ever leave a device half plugged in it turns out it *will* start a fire.

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 11:18pm -07:00
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Aug 28
It's for a tool to export the user's entire Swarm checkin history and save it to a local SQLite database file

I need this tool!

Castro Valley, California

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 5:00pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Aug 28
Yeah there are a couple tricks, none of which are ideal. Basically you kick off the flow from the CLI app, get the user to visit a URL, but the redirect is to your server, and then you either tell them to paste an auth code into the CLI or

or, you spin up a local web server to catch a redirect back from your backend, or you mimic the OAuth device flow on your backend. Hmm this sounds like a fun blog post 😬

Castro Valley, California, USA

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 4:58pm -07:00
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Aug 28
@aaronpk do you know if there's a neat way for me to auth with Foursquare from a CLI tool I'm building? I need the user to be able to get their own OAuth token but I don't want to ship my client secret with the CLI tool

Yeah there are a couple tricks, none of which are ideal. Basically you kick off the flow from the CLI app, get the user to visit a URL, but the redirect is to your server, and then you either tell them to paste an auth code into the CLI or

Castro Valley, California

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 4:57pm -07:00
dietrich https://mastodon.social/@dietrich • Aug 23
TIL: You can get watermelon poisoning.
It's terrible, I do not recommend.

is that like...eating too much watermelon? or watermelon poisoning like how lettuce can give you food poisoning?

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 11:16pm -07:00
Sen. Samantha Bananathon :qvp: https://social.illegalpornography.com/@BestGirlGrace • Aug 27
"What's your calling convention?"
- me, asking a robot girl if she wants me to talk to her on the phone or what

some people do this for humans too http://ttk.me/w/CommunicationProtocols

Portland, Oregon

Mon, Aug 26, 2019 9:53pm -07:00
Amateur Slacker https://twitter.com/noop_noob • Aug 27
BTW, the reason I found this sentence is because the documentation for the "httr" R package linked to it https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/secrets.html

oh wow yeah, I can see how that would be incredibly confusing. Well for the record, OAuth secrets are absolutely supposed to be secret, and we have different solutions for deployments that can't keep secrets.

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 8:46pm -07:00
atola visuals https://twitter.com/AtolaVisuals • Aug 27
Litto baby camura

can our cameras be friends

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 6:44pm -07:00
Jᵾlien Genestoux https://twitter.com/julien51 • Aug 26
Controversial opinion: recurring payment are an anti-pattern.

If a product/service does not have enough value to justify a quick "one click" checkout on a monthly basis, then anything recurring is rent seeking.

I know of at least one other person who shares this opinion :-)

https://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel/

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 2:34pm -07:00
Amateur Slacker https://twitter.com/noop_noob • Aug 26
"The process results in a client ID and, in some cases, a client secret, which you embed in the source code of your application. (In this context, the client secret is obviously not treated as a secret.)"

from https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2

I'm confused.

Good find... that is a really confusing sentence. I'm going to try to track that down and see if they can remove it.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 2:31pm -07:00 #oauth

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