Aaron Parecki

Josh Highland https://twitter.com/JoshHighland • Apr 19
I never realized how awesome faceID on iPhones was until I had to start wearing a mask

I've heard a rumor you can add your masked face as a second face to unlock the phone. I keep forgetting to try that myself.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Mon, Apr 20, 2020 8:00am -07:00
Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Apr 20
How often do you move your laptop from its regular spot?

what's a regular spot

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Sun, Apr 19, 2020 10:24pm -07:00
You Have One Job, Stay Indoors https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1 • Apr 16
Customer: “The car is not starting. Dash board shows the sign of a person sitting on the toilet.”

Mechanic: “What...?? Send me a picture.”

Welp. Can't unsee that now.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Sun, Apr 19, 2020 10:18pm -07:00
davemaze https://twitter.com/davemaze • Apr 20
ok ok ok... I get it. I need to make more M50 videos!

Do what you wanna do! Don’t chase the algorithm! 💛

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

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Sun, Apr 19, 2020 8:56pm -07:00
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Apr 19
OMG, today’s cleaning up unearthed another gem... an HTC S730, Windows Mobile 6.0 from 2007! It doesn’t turn on, but I was able to extract the microSD. The photos are 🤯

yesssss I had the HTC Mogul! My first smart phone!

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:38pm -07:00
chipotle https://micro.blog/chipotle • Apr 19
@aaronpk I bought one of the new MacBook Airs, and thought, "This will be great when I take it out to cafés and... um."

I mean it'll be great! In like 2 years

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:35pm -07:00
Ben Reilly https://twitter.com/BenReillyOne • Apr 19
In the process of doing exactly that thing... just with a $2500 Ryzen 3950X Rig :-)

But will it run MacOS 😭

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:33pm -07:00
Nick Farina https://twitter.com/nfarina • Apr 19
I’m the only person I know who doesn’t have issues with the butterfly keyboard…yet. I feel like I’m living very dangerously.

Same! It's totally fine for me!

My problem is the keycaps on command and S and C wear off but it doesn't affect the functionality at all. Confuses the Apple techs every time, but they keep replacing it anyway.

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 9:34pm -07:00
jd https://micro.blog/jd • Apr 18
@aaronpk I also wonder if the 13” would get bumped up to 14” rather than shrunk down to 12”, to match the 15” that got bumped up to 16”. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah I'm not optimistic there will ever be a smaller than 13" MacBook again, since they are bumping up the specs of iPads so much

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Sat, Apr 18, 2020 2:45pm -07:00
jd https://micro.blog/jd • Apr 18
@aaronpk It would seem they’d have to update the 13” MacBook Pro to match its updated 16” counterpart sometime soon?

I'm secretly hoping they put out a matching update to the 16" but in a 12" form factor. I would be all over that in a second.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Sat, Apr 18, 2020 2:32pm -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Yeah, but then you tie yourself to one chair in that house. :-)

nah I just set up Sidecar to mirror the display to an iPad, then use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse!

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 2:02pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Apr 18
maybe I should just say screw it and get a $10,000 Mac Pro since I'm apparently never leaving this house again

and when I do get back on the road I can remote desktop into it from an iPad or something right? just means no offline development

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 1:34pm -07:00
Not Fake Adam Kalsey https://twitter.com/akalsey • Apr 18
Their regular laptops are getting so thin and light, they probably don’t see a large market size for an ultra book now.

But my favorite computer ever was my 11” Air.

Sometimes I use my iPad mini and keyboard for similar effect.

The 11" Air was also my favorite! Tho this 12" is actually smaller form factor but has a larger screen so it's nice. I just wish it was a liiiitle faster, even if it had to be a little thicker.

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 1:13pm -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
I’m going to ask my colleagues. We do mostly golang, React & Ember. That fit your profile?

For me it's: PHP, nginx (custom-compiled), MySQL (MariaDB), Redis, Ruby (multiple versions), Node, in that order.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 11:38am -07:00
Artur Paikin https://twitter.com/arturi • Apr 18
Trying Surface Go for this reason. Installed Ubuntu. It works, but not great. Windows 10 is good enough, if you can set your dev env there.

Interesting. I do have a Windows laptop that I use for photo and video editing already, I really don't think I can move my dev environment there though.

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 11:25am -07:00
Dr. Matt Lee 🏡 https://twitter.com/mattl • Apr 18
I’d be surprised if they didn’t have some popular things on day 1.

Problem is I need the unpopular things, mainly a web development stack

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:31am -07:00
Isaac Rabinovitch https://twitter.com/isaac32767 • Apr 18
I'm bemused by the thought that a 3yo computer is "starting to show its age." I have a 2009 Mac Pro, which I only began to consider dated when Apple replaced OpenGL with Metal, which my system doesn't support.

It's probably because it was not a high-end machine when I got it, plus getting it into this form factor means cutting a lot of corners on the architecture internally. When you have infinite space and no power limits you can definitely build a machine that'll last 7-10 years.

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:28am -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Could you do what you need to on an iPad with a keyboard?

You might also consider going Linux. Most of the engineers I work with have done that

but also are there actually any small linux laptops? smaller than a 13" pro

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:23am -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • Apr 18
Could you do what you need to on an iPad with a keyboard?

You might also consider going Linux. Most of the engineers I work with have done that

oof. I guess since I've already moved my Photoshop and video editing workflow to a Windows laptop, all I really need out of this smaller one is a good web dev environment, so maybe? I'll miss iMessage and Fantastical though.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:20am -07:00
Dr. Matt Lee 🏡 https://twitter.com/mattl • Apr 18
They will. ARM based Mac laptops will come in 12 and 14 inch models I’m sure.

Even if those come out later this year, I feel like it'll be at least a couple more years before the software support for things works well on ARM.

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