Aaron Parecki

Internet of Shit https://twitter.com/internetofshit • Nov 3
Philips Hue lighting is now on the Shitdex: https://internetofshit.net/products/philips/philips-hue

Did something change, or did you just add it to the website?

Malmö, Skåne län, SWE • 48°F

Mon, Nov 4, 2019 11:30am +01:00
Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli • Nov 4
Neat! A coffee at my office in the afternoon?

That'd be great! DM me the details!

Malmö, Skåne län • 49°F

Mon, Nov 4, 2019 8:29am +01:00
Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli • Nov 3
Oh, welcome! Didn’t know you planned to come here 😄

Got time for a coffee/beer while here?

Yes! In fact I'm free most of today!

Malmö, Skåne län • 48°F

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Mon, Nov 4, 2019 8:11am +01:00
Jonnie Hallman https://twitter.com/destroytoday • Nov 3
I was glancing through the website and one of the sections said to set up a short URL. (fwiw, I didn’t read *too* thoroughly, so it could’ve certainly been a suggestion/optional)

It's definitely mentioned as optional on the "Getting Started" page if that's what you were looking at. But in general you should also think of everything on the wiki as optional, because after all it's your website!

Malmö, Skåne län • 50°F

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Sun, Nov 3, 2019 10:02pm +01:00
Jonnie Hallman https://twitter.com/destroytoday • Nov 3
I haven’t, but “Set up a personal URL shortener” is a no go for me. Bad for the web.

I'm curious what you read that suggested a URL shortener was a required step. I agree they're bad for the web, but I use them for other things like in slides and in print. If nothing else we should make it more obvious that nobody is suggesting a URL shortener is required.

Malmö, Skåne län, SWE • 50°F

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Sun, Nov 3, 2019 9:57pm +01:00
Jamie Tanna https://www.jvt.me • Nov 3

Going from macOS to Ubuntu

oof just read through all that since I'm starting to get annoyed at MacOS but that was enough to make me not want to switch to Linux!

Malmö, Skåne län • 53°F

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Sun, Nov 3, 2019 3:23pm +01:00
Michael Bishop https://miklb.com/ • Nov 3
First lesson learned on smart home devices. Check if it is 5ghz WiFi capable.

ooh that got me too. My scale is 2.4ghz only. I had to make a special SSID on 2.4ghz for it because my main one broadcasts both but it was failing to connect.

Malmö, Skåne län • 53°F

Sun, Nov 3, 2019 3:13pm +01:00
Nitin Khanna https://twitter.com/nitinthewiz • Nov 2
7+ and it’s at 78% battery health. Gonna get a new battery one of these days. Everything should run smoother then.

hm yeah, my last phone was a 6S with an old battery and it was not a good experience. I suspect they made some good upgrades in the GPS hardware since then too which might contribute to it.

Memphis, Tennessee • 57°F

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Sat, Nov 2, 2019 3:08pm -05:00
Nitin Khanna https://twitter.com/nitinthewiz • Nov 2
Still good to update things every now and then 😊
I have a love-hate relationship with Overland. It’s either sitting quietly in the background or taking up 30% of my battery. Finally set it up based on the instructions in your Readme. So thought I should update Compass too! 😊

30% for real? I have mine running on the highest setting 100% of the time and my phone says the app is using 16%! What model?

Memphis, Tennessee, USA • 57°F

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Sat, Nov 2, 2019 3:04pm -05:00
Nitin Khanna https://twitter.com/nitinthewiz • Nov 2
Very well... I’ll just download the new source and run those and get back to you. I don’t think I’ve updated it since I installed it the first time... maybe last year?

I don't think it's changed a ton since then!

Memphis, Tennessee • 57°F

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Sat, Nov 2, 2019 2:59pm -05:00
Nitin Khanna https://twitter.com/nitinthewiz • Nov 2
Hey @aaronpk you had posted instructions for upgrading Compass somewhere right? Could you please link me? Thanks in advance!!

hmm I don't think I did include explicit instructions in the readme! Should be the same as the install process tho... `composer install` and `php artisan migrate`

Memphis, Tennessee • 57°F

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Sat, Nov 2, 2019 2:57pm -05:00
https://2020.indieweb.org/summit

I can't believe it will be the 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!

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Sat, Nov 2, 2019 12:00pm -05:00
Christian Hockenberger https://twitter.com/chrisbergr • Nov 2
This sounds very familiar. That's also the reason why I opened ticket #87 at Overland iOS on github :)

haha good point! For some reason I have no trouble starting and stopping trips manually in Overland, but I can't be bothered to manually start and stop a sleep tracker!

Memphis, Tennessee • 43°F

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Fri, Nov 1, 2019 8:35pm -05:00
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze_ • Nov 1
have you considered buying an external GPU setup? I also love my 13" MBP. Have had the 2016 model now since....2016! haha

Does the external GPU thing actually work? It's been a while since I looked into it but my understanding was very few apps can actually take advantage of it, and exporting a rendered video would not use it. It'd only speed up the UI while editing.

Memphis, Tennessee • 44°F

Fri, Nov 1, 2019 8:01pm -05:00
jack https://micro.blog/jack • Nov 1
@aaronpk If that's your only criteria, then sure, but seems a small compromise, all things considered :)

It's not a small compromise because that's literally 90% of the reason I even have a smart watch in the first place.

Memphis, Tennessee • 51°F

Fri, Nov 1, 2019 5:45pm -05:00
Christian Hockenberger https://twitter.com/chrisbergr • Nov 1
I never tried to do sleep tracking with my Apple Watch, because the night is the time I need to charge it.
I use "Sleep Better" on my iPhone.
But even if that would work, you still wouldn't get the data out of the health app. -Or did I miss something?

I know from past experience that anything that requires manual intervention by me to start or stop sleep tracking I will eventually forget to do it and lose data. FitBit (and Jawbone) are the only things I've used that are automatic.

Memphis, Tennessee • 51°F

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Fri, Nov 1, 2019 5:44pm -05:00
samgrover https://micro.blog/samgrover • Nov 1
@aaronpk I use AutoSleep and it detects sleep/wake times and gives a good amount of data on the sleep. Perhaps you've already considered that.

Yeah it's more on principle that I don't think a $399 luxury watch should be less capable out of the box than a $99 FitBit

Memphis, Tennessee • 48°F

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Fri, Nov 1, 2019 11:28am -05:00
Dominik Schwind https://twitter.com/dominik • Nov 1
there are some apps that take night movements of the watch and write them to the Health app as sleep tracking. They’re not at the level of the Fitbit, though. 😞

Yea, I'm not interested in half-baked solutions for a $399 device. At that price it better be able to do at least what a $99 FitBit can do.

Memphis, Tennessee • 41°F

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Fri, Nov 1, 2019 10:05am -05:00
Tom Critchlow https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow • Nov 1
Is it much easier for non-static sites? Is there a "webmentions in a box" WP plugin?

and I use webmention.io myself, but I use the webhook feature so that it pushes the webmentions to my website immediately, where I can then store the data in my website's storage. That's one of the reasons the client-side JS examples there don't include any rendered HTML.

Memphis, Tennessee, USA • 40°F

Fri, Nov 1, 2019 9:44am -05:00
Tom Critchlow https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow • Nov 1
Is it much easier for non-static sites? Is there a "webmentions in a box" WP plugin?

Yep! https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/

It's completely self-contained, no external services, and integrates with the native WordPress comments system.

Memphis, Tennessee, USA • 40°F

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Aaron Parecki

Going from macOS to Ubuntu