Aaron Parecki

Kate Compton, actual doctor of weird ai https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate • Jan 29
Question about JS modules:

I'm using a complex-ish library (js + css + svg) for html JSON editors

But the github page only lists "how to build for npm", and lacks any "dist" folder with regular js files, or even a CDN version

Why would this be the case?
https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/

I can't stand when projects do this. For me it's a sign that the library is overengineered and I probably don't want to use it anyway.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F

Wed, Jan 29, 2020 8:06pm -08:00
Melissa Santos https://weirder.earth/@ansate • Jan 30
TIL about unclaimed property websites run by the state https://unclaimed.oregon.gov for example. I have a surprising amount of money out there to chase down. :|

Yes! A couple years ago I got like $500 from an old bank account I had forgotten about!

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Wed, Jan 29, 2020 5:03pm -08:00
Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jan 29
git reset --hard HEAD

git config --global alias.oops 'reset --hard HEAD^'

git oops

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Wed, Jan 29, 2020 12:23pm -08:00
Luc Perkins https://twitter.com/lucperkins • Jan 28
I would love to be wrong, but I'm beginning to feel pretty strongly that using IRC for all communications is a good way to keep your OSS community an Old Boys Club

Exactly why we bridge all of IRC, Slack, Matrix and Discord for the IndieWeb chat. Regardless of where you join from it's all the same chat. https://indieweb.org/discuss

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:28pm -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
My earlier point is that everyone needing to buy a domain name is an unreasonable expectation for the vast majority of people.

We pool resources for all sorts of things in meatspace society. Most people do not have a reason to be “every person for themself” digitally.

Sure, and in that case, share a domain with a friend/community you trust. My problem was very specifically with your wording "go get a Mastodon somewhere" for these two similar but unrelated reasons:

https://indieweb.org/own_your_data

https://indieweb.org/plurality

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:25am -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
To parrot back: Do you run your own email server? Unless you're running your own, you don't own your email identity, the server admin does.

I think distributed instances with their own rules are many steps forward from our current centralized position. Better is good.

Nope, email *domain* not email server. My email address is @parecki.com but it's gmail behind it. That means I can swap out gmail for running my own server later and nobody who emails me will ever notice. That's the difference.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:27am -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee/status/1222129855258558466

Sure, but I just don't think a blanket "join a mastodon somewhere" statement is really beneficial overall.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:21am -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .

Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your mastodon identity, the server admin does. Sure it's better than the Twitter monolith, but getting a mastodon account "somewhere" doesn't solve the underlying #indieweb problem.

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Michael Bishop https://twitter.com/miklb • Jan 27
You might be interested in Overland from @aaronpk https://overland.p3k.app/

Sadly mine requires manual action to start/stop individual trips. It'll passively track *everything*, but not intelligently like Moves used to do.

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 2:48pm -08:00
Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz • Jan 27
"An update on bradfitz"

After ~12.5 years at Google and ~10 years working on Go, it's time for me to do something new. Tomorrow is my last day at Google. 👋

I'll still be involved with #golang but less, and differently.

More:
https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google

wow congrats, and what an excellent goodbye post!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 9:44am -08:00
Jan 26
I RSVP’d to the Austin IWC event. Who else am I seeing there?

🎉 I'll be there!

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Sun, Jan 26, 2020 1:39pm -08:00
Heather Downing 🇦🇶🐧🚢 @Antarticonf https://twitter.com/quorralyne • Jan 26
I am creating a new epic coding music playlist on Spotify and I need your suggestions! Songs that really drive you when coding, or inspire when working out. What is a favorite of yours I absolutely HAVE to add?

"Elliptic" by Vessels

"I Remember" by deadmau5

Portland, Oregon, USA • 50°F

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 12:24pm -08:00
Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 26
I think the math is harder to justify for this trip. I usually plan a full travel day for a flight from Montreal to SF, but this is a 3-day trip by train. I really wanted to take this trip, though.

Yeah trains are super fun! I'd love to do a long one like that some time. Maybe next time I go to Montreal!

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 9:03am -08:00
Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 26
I think air travel replacement makes a lot more sense for a regional trip like that, too. For a 90-minute flight from PDX to YYV, you have to add 4 or more hours door-to-door for getting to and from the airport, security, check-in, etc.

eh I fly so much I show up at the airport a few minutes before boarding and it's fine with precheck and such. But it's true in the end it still takes about 4-6 hours total for the 1-hour flight.

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 9:00am -08:00
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/davemaze • Jan 26
no, i will always punctuate properly. spelling has to be accurate too. it’s only capitalization that is gone.

but wait there are plenty of valid cases for dropping punctuation for stylistic purposes too

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 8:49am -08:00
Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 25
I'm taking the trip from Montreal to San Francisco by train this weekend. It's been amazing; beautiful scenery, nice people, and I've had several stops for meals along the way. Best of all, I saved more than a tonne of CO2. #TrainsNotPlanes

Okay this may have convinced me to take the much shorter 8 hour train from Portland to Vancouver for the next IETF meeting

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Sat, Jan 25, 2020 9:39pm -08:00
Whoa Chris https://twitter.com/Whoa_Chris • Jan 26
DUde, seriously, I can't get chat to work. I can't do live streams on YT if I can't chat.

Yeah there's no chat on the website as far as I can tell. I only see it in the twitter app. but also it disappears real quick so it's pretty frustrating compared to youtube streams!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 52°F

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Sat, Jan 25, 2020 6:27pm -08:00
Jan 25
I ordered some printer ink 4 days ago. Got delayed, then a strange message yesterday that the business was closed for the… holidays? No big deal, if it was important I could get it somewhere else, but it’s a rare look into how hard it must be to spoil us on overnight shipping.

Happy Chinese new year!

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Sat, Jan 25, 2020 10:05am -08:00
Arend-Jan Kauffmann https://twitter.com/ajkauffmann • Jan 25
It started with writing a blog post about OAuth authentication flow. But hiding the client secret was something I wanted to solve first. But you know what? I just found a way to work without a secret. And 100% secure! New blog posts and code will be online soon (=next week)

Not totally sure the context of this, but have you at least read the OAuth docs around this exact problem?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6819#section-5.3.1

That's the reason OAuth uses a different flow for native apps and SPAs. I'll be curious to see your blog post!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sat, Jan 25, 2020 8:35am -08:00
Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd • Jan 24
It's fairly slow, but still cute

so I looked up that product, and somehow found a bunch of "related" products and now I am deep in the hole of researching laser engravers which are apparently not that expensive and are also very small now.

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