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Aaron Parecki

  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Dec 27
    Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’ve been watching Mandalorian all week and I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. It’s ok, but it’s not great. The baby Yoda is cute and all, but given the excitement on Twitter I was really expecting more.
    Aaron Parecki
    I've uh, only watched the first episode, so I am firmly in the camp of oh my god baby yoda is the cutest 😍
    Portland, Oregon • 38°F
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  • Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika   •   Dec 26

    lol, United lets you fly with luxury items such as Jacket and Reading Material in addition to your personal item if you bought your ticket using a specific credit card from Chase

    Aaron Parecki
    wait what
    Portland, Oregon • 37°F
  • Sidney Diongzon https://twitter.com/SidneyDiongzon   •   Dec 27
    Did some adulting today and got a coffee table.
    Aaron Parecki
    whoa that's serious business.
    Portland, Oregon • 38°F
  • Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze   •   Dec 25
    What are some IT things you have been asked to do today with your family? Mine was cleaning my grandma’s iPhone and fixing iCloud storage issues.
    Aaron Parecki
    Thankfully I got out of that business ages ago 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
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  • hey don't 🌹 https://twitter.com/heydonworks   •   Dec 25
    Indieweb folks: where do you actually host your stuff? Not Github, presumably?
    Aaron Parecki
    GitHub for anything I expect people to collaborate with me on. I also run Gitea on a server at home for my private repos.
    Portland, Oregon • 39°F
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  • Darius Kazemi https://friend.camp/@darius   •   Dec 25

    @aaronpk the next step is writing a book proposal!

    Aaron Parecki
    Or Kickstarter and self publish? I'll help with the print layout!
    Portland, Oregon • 40°F
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  • Darius Kazemi https://friend.camp/@darius   •   Dec 25

    Well, that's it! I successfully spent 2019 reading and blogging about each of the first 365 RFCs.

    I have more posts to come, including some related research that didn't quite fit with the RFC-a-day format, and an interview with the brilliant outgoing RFC series editor, Heather Flanagan.

    https://write.as/365-rfcs/table-of-contents

    Aaron Parecki
    You're gonna publish this as a book right?
    Portland, Oregon • 40°F
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Dec 24
    I always do post work. and the live show has a gate but that’s not good enough for recorded content.
    Aaron Parecki
    Gotcha. I was completely blown away by how effective that expander is! I hadn't used one before. I live above traffic and there are multiple server fans in my office and it did an amazing job with it.
    Portland, Oregon • 34°F
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Dec 24
    I recently learned what an audio expander is (because ATEM Mini has it built in via Fairlight audio controls), and now I want a dedicated expander for recording in my studio. There’s quite a few on the market; any specific preferences, recommendations, or things to watch out for?
    Aaron Parecki
    Your audio has always sounded fine to me. Do you clean it up in post to get rid of the fan noise? Or wanting to be able to tolerate new background noise?
    Portland, Oregon • 35°F
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  • Vika https://fireburn.ru/   •   Dec 23

    I so want a #YubiKey to use instead of a password 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 but cant find anyone in Russia who would sell them

    Aaron Parecki
    If you think it would get thru customs I can send you one!
    Happy Valley, Oregon • 43°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Frankly no I don't trust everyone's blogs to get the event markup right. There's a lot of fields, and a lot of ways it can go wrong. IndieNews works this way and it's hard enough for people to get that right, and that's just a name or content property.

    I'm going to add an "Import Event" button to load an event from a URL with Microformats, so if you want to you can post the event on your site and import it, but it will preview what it found before actually creating the event.

    The other factor is that one of the primary goals of this site is to lower the barrier for people hosting events, and that means not making them think about markup at all.
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
  • smokey https://micro.blog/smokey   •   Dec 22

    @aaronpk Congratulations on moving a big piece of IndieWeb infrastructure forward a generation or so :-)

    I’m curious about your decision to omit timezones from multi-day events; won’t that cause those events to show up incorrectly for people on the other side of the International Date Line?

    Aaron Parecki
    Yes and no.

    If you want to attend an event in Portland on June 29th, and you live in Japan, and you add that event to your calendar with no timezone, your calendar will record it as "June 29th". That means no matter what timezone you switch your phone to, it will always show up as the right date.

    It only fails if your phone adds a fixed timezone to it such as the timezone of your current location. In that case, it will show up at a different time once you change timezones.

    Also this is not unique to the date line, it happens with any timezone change. The important thing is that if there is no timezone, calendar apps need to treat it as a "floating" or "local" time and always display the stated time of the event completely ignoring timezones.

    The case where it doesn't work is if you want to remotely attend an event in a different timezone. That's why for short one-day events that are likely to have remote participants, I recommend setting a timezone on the event. But for multi-day events, you're going to have to look up the starting time on the actual schedule anyway, so you'll figure out the timezone conversion at that point instead.
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
  • Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze   •   Dec 22
    Any ideas on how to get a twitter name from a dead account? Dude has 1 follower and no tweets and no profile pic.
    Aaron Parecki
    They're gonna do something major pretty soon which should help! https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984328/twitter-removing-inactive-accounts-usernames-available-date
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    I would never want to wish iCal feed generation on anyone, it's a pretty obtuse format. That said, there are plenty of other software that publish ical feeds so I do want to be able to import those too. But for indie websites I would recommend publishing microformats instead.
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Dec 22
    Oh yeah I doubt this will give me much more then my GH5 for my purposes.

    And that’s part of the reason I held back on it for so long.

    But we’ve had a real awesome year on TEDD so this is my Christmas present to myself.

    Not very practical but I’m super excited.
    Aaron Parecki
    well that's awesome! and congrats on a successful year for sure!

    I'll get there eventually! 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
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  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Dec 22
    Guess this means no FX9 😬

    But I’m ridiculously excited for this, I started off with a @LumixUSA camera so it’s only right for me to continue supporting them.

    Now all I need to be more like @thatJordanDrake is a photographer that follows me around doing video work 🤣
    Aaron Parecki
    wow that's 💸💸💸💸!

    at some point the cost of the camera can't produce that much better pictures right?

    Actually I feel like you're in a pretty good position to run a test like that... video idea: "How much picture quality can money actually buy?"
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  • Aaron Parecki
    How would you feel about a manual "import event" option rather than the traditional syndication method used by bridgy and news.indieweb.org? I'm imagining you'd click "Import Event" on the website, provide your URL, and it would then populate the "Add an Event" form with everything it found from your website.
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Yeah definitely! I'm going to have to think through the UX on that. I think the hardest part will be providing a good experience around noticing and fixing errors in the source event markup before just blindly adding an event to the website with partially broken info.
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  • Aaron Parecki
    This is a fantastic video! Thanks for the shoutout! And wow so many cameras to make that.

    Side note... it looks like the GoPro is suuuper delayed, which matches what I was seeing in my testing. Bummer that it's not really usable for this!
    Portland, Oregon • 57°F
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  • AngeloStavrow https://micro.blog/AngeloStavrow   •   Dec 20

    @aaronpk Ugh, that's no fun. I stopped giving out a phone number for just this reason — instead I used an email address with an auto-reply that gave some T&Cs for purchasing from me.

    It also worked as a form of reassurance — "by using email, we both have a written record of what we agreed to, which protects both of us!"

    Aaron Parecki
    yeah, for high value things I would do this too, but in this case I want this thing gone and I'm giving it away for free, on the condition that the buyer comes and picks it up. That means I need to make it as easy as possible for someone to contact me and not jump through hoops.
    Portland, Oregon • 56°F