Aaron Parecki

The Everyday Dad https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Oct 3
Also if you complain in my comments section saying you demand unbiased videos I’m sorry but I assume you are a child.

No human being is unbiased, all you can do is state mitigating factors upfront (sponsored videos etc) and enjoy making your content.

oh, you would like an unbiased video? here, let me give you a unicorn:

🦄

well said!

United Flight 906 FRA to ORD • 54°F

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Thu, Oct 3, 2019 1:59pm +01:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 2
I replaced Monocle's Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it's just handled by the browser with no JS.

I always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but I opened up the browser tools to check and it turns out the slowdown was happening while rendering the page, not when fetching external data. Goes to show it's a good idea to open up the browser tools once in a while to check out what's happening under the hood!

It looks like switching to no-JS icons in monocle totally fixed the issues I was having with it! Sometimes when I opened a page it used to block on all interactions like marking things read or favoriting for a while. I didn't realize that it was the icon JS that was blocking it! Now that the icons don't require JS, it's free to start handling user interaction sooner and I can scroll and mark read even before the rest of the assets are loaded!

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DEU

Thu, Oct 3, 2019 11:10am +02:00 #p3k #indieweb #monocle
Torsten Lodderstedt https://twitter.com/tlodderstedt • Oct 2
we even covered RAR :-) Here are the slide decks
https://www.slideshare.net/TorstenLodderstedt/pushed-authorization-requests
https://www.slideshare.net/TorstenLodderstedt/rich-authorization-requests

Sorry to miss you this time in California! Hope to see you in Singapore next month tho!

Lufthansa Flight 987 AMS to FRA in Schiphol Centrum, Noord-Holland • 54°F

Thu, Oct 3, 2019 10:13am +02:00
Bastian Allgeier https://twitter.com/bastianallgeier • Oct 2
The modern way of running a SaaS:

1. catch thousands of users with free accounts and features that are too good to be true.
2. start charging for features that have been free before.

Unpopular opinion: this is just dishonest growth hacking.

https://twitter.com/GoHugoIO/status/1179328960133554179

wow you're right, that was unpopular. I totally agree tho fwiw.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 52°F

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Wed, Oct 2, 2019 11:40pm +02:00
Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil • Oct 1
Lazyweb: I’m in the market for an extremely compact travel power strip, especially for use on airplanes that feature very fiddly, loose power outlets that many power bricks fall out of easily. Shoot me some suggestions if you have them!

ugh airplane outlets have been driving me up the wall lately! I think the solution is to get a plug that's at a 90 degree angle so that the cord hangs straight down instead of out first. But also the plane outlets support every country's plug so maybe getting a small UK power strip is the best since that's the grippiest one?

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 52°F

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Tue, Oct 1, 2019 10:09pm +02:00
Amanda https://twitter.com/Asignia • Oct 1
Hello from your Captioner! I've been learning a lot from all the speakers. Wow. 😀 My coworker is not impressed with the wakeup time - it's kind of early here. But that's not an issue for me when there are such wonderful speakers. ❤️ #ViewSourceConf @whitecoatcapxg

Thank you so much! I know this must be a lot of work!

Amsterdam • 62°F

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Tue, Oct 1, 2019 12:59pm +02:00
mexpat https://micro.blog/mexpat • Sep 30
@aaronpk signed in with my own site (https://glenn.thedixons.net) which is set up for IndieAuth, and my site is connected to Micro.blog, but not as a paying account. So how do I implement micropub in a way that Aperture recognizes?

Your site will need a Micropub endpoint so that the reader apps have a place to send likes and replies to. Otherwise where would they live?

It looks like you're using Eleventy now? I know some folks have done that before but don't have the details off hand. I'll ask in chat if anyone has links they can add to the wiki page. https://indieweb.org/Eleventy

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 60°F

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Mon, Sep 30, 2019 4:09pm +02:00
mexpat https://micro.blog/mexpat • Sep 30
@aaronpk I have a question about Monocle. I have tried using both it and Together with Baffle connected to Newsblur. I have also tried Monocle with Aperture. But so far I have zero options to favorite or reply to anything I am reading. In other words, just like any other feed reader out there. What am I missing? Is there something I have not set up on my own site? Genuinely confused and a bit frustrated tbh...

The website you use to sign in to the reader will need to support Micropub in order for those buttons to show up. I don't think that works with Baffle/Newsblur, but you can use it with your Micro.blog account!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 60°F

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Mon, Sep 30, 2019 3:58pm +02:00
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Sep 29
Have you seen last week's video? I showed you how to use Apple's Keynote to create motion graphics for Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Resolve… whatever! It's pretty awesome. After watching, if you want to learn more about using Keynote, let me know! https://photojoseph.com/ep490

If nothing else, this has inspired me to use more motion graphics in my actual Keynote presentations

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 62°F

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Sun, Sep 29, 2019 11:27pm +02:00
Vika https://fireburn.ru/ • Sep 29
Wow you are in Amsterdam? I wish to see Amsterdam with my own eyes one day 😍

I'm here for IndieWebCamp and View Source conference!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 56°F

Sun, Sep 29, 2019 7:53am +02:00
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze_ • Sep 28
Ya that’s why I have opted for keeping an iPhone so I can retain the same number with normal iMessage support and stuff

Yeah, no iMessage on my number is definitely weird. Also some companies like Uber and US Bank refuse to believe my number is real.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 58°F

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Sat, Sep 28, 2019 7:52am +02:00
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze_ • Sep 27
Will convert my phone number to google voice number and just use google voice for phone calls and non iMessage texts.

As someone whose primary number has been a google voice number for the last 10 years, I can say I like it but does come with some odd side effects

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 56°F

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Sat, Sep 28, 2019 7:37am +02:00
Audrey Ember 🔥 https://twitter.com/AudreyEmber • Sep 27
Seriously considering trading in my iPhone 7 for the 11... That wide angle lens looks amazinggg should I do it? 😂

Yes! That's gonna be a huge upgrade! I was using a 6S until last year, I'm on the XS now so I can't really justify upgrading again even tho I kinda want to!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 64°F

Fri, Sep 27, 2019 5:49pm +02:00
FiXato 🇳🇱🇳🇴 https://mastodon.social/@FiXato • Sep 27
@aaronpk
while this wasn't in #Amsterdam, and I ended up walking with my bike for the most part IIRC, this is how I picked up a free #microwave here in #Bodø, #Norway:
https://mastodon.social/media/fIxN-dpbarbGS1h8u3k
I attached a vegetable #crate to the back of my #bike and stuck the microwave oven in it. Forgot to bring more rope to properly secure the oven in it though, but it survived the trip, and has served us well for over a year now :)

Excellent! I've seen so many crates like that attached to bikes here!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 62°F

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 4:03pm +02:00
Reinder Dijkhuis Does Art https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis • Sep 27
@aaronpk The largest item I've managed is a mattress, but to be honest, I did have to get off my bike and walk with it to my apartment.

haha that's awesome. The biggest I've done is a TV!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 63°F

Fri, Sep 27, 2019 3:43pm +02:00
Reinder Dijkhuis Does Art https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis • Sep 27
@aaronpk The largest item I've managed is a mattress, but to be honest, I did have to get off my bike and walk with it to my apartment.

haha that's awesome. The biggest I've done is a TV!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 63°F

Fri, Sep 27, 2019 3:43pm +02:00
https://adactio.com/notes/15863

🎉 see you soon!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 64°F

Fri, Sep 27, 2019 2:01pm +02:00
KTamas, Dark Mode UI Design Specialist https://twitter.com/KTamas • Sep 27
wow, a three color eink display? haven't seen that before

"three color" -- black, red, and white (no color). kind of misleading IMO.

I actually used the "two color" version, black and white.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 64°F

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 1:12pm +02:00
KTamas, Dark Mode UI Design Specialist https://twitter.com/KTamas • Sep 27
thanks! what's the epaper display you were using?

It was the Waveshare "HAT" version for the Pi Zero. The only thing I didn't like about it is that the whole contraption ends up being almost an inch thick. I'm going to try it again using an esp32-e-paper combo device that's as thin as just one board!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 64°F

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 1:08pm +02:00
KTamas, Dark Mode UI Design Specialist https://twitter.com/KTamas • Sep 27
@aaronpk hey! the eink/raspizerow thing you showed at XOXO, is it open-sourced somewhere? would love to do something similar

I haven't published the actual code I used, but it's all based on the examples from Waveshare anyway: https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper

The real work was in gathering the data in the first place, then it's a matter of drawing rectangles on the screen.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland • 64°F

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 1:00pm +02:00

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