Aaron Parecki

Ben Werdmüller https://werd.io/profile/benwerd • Jan 30

My Medium experiment

Oh thank goodness. Good to have you back on your own website.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F

Sat, Jan 30, 2021 8:42pm -08:00
Ben Werdmüller https://werd.io/profile/benwerd • Jan 31
Have you considered getting one of these to help with the discomfort? https://maskalike.com/

hahaha no I am not comfortable going anywhere in that thing

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Sat, Jan 30, 2021 8:08pm -08:00
Jamie Tanna https://www.jvt.me • Jan 29
Welp if I still had that Dogecoin from all those years ago, I'd have 11k today 😥

In 2013 or so I traded all my Dogecoin and got 0.05 BTC which was worth $20 at the time. Now that BTC is worth $1800 but I lost the key 😥

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Fri, Jan 29, 2021 6:44am -08:00
BensTechLab https://twitter.com/BensTechLab • Jan 29
@aaronpk not sure if you meant "web view" as in embedded web view inside a native app - but if so that is not technically more secure. Launching a system browser prevents the calling app from keylogging in that web page.

I know you know me from a different context, but this is literally what I spend most of my time talking about 🙃 I have like a book and video course all about it 😉

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Thu, Jan 28, 2021 8:28pm -08:00
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Jan 28
Concrete example of auth prompt from a desktop app (google drive connecter) that does NOT use the system browser.
Placing it in a tweet so that I have a URL for it in discussions.

That's interesting, most of the other Google stuff has been moving to web views, even the native calendar integration on macos now! I wonder if this just hasn't been updated yet.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Thu, Jan 28, 2021 1:54pm -08:00
Andrew Turner (@ajturner@nullisland.social) https://twitter.com/ajturner • Jan 28
<Cmd>-<Shift>-T
To the rescue

Gotta go find the window with the right user profile first for that to work! (I have a work and personal chrome profile to keep bookmarks and history separate!)

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Wed, Jan 27, 2021 4:15pm -08:00
Tristan 🌧️ https://twitter.com/twaddington • Jan 27
I bought a tricked out mac mini to use as my main workstation. Maxed out the RAM to 32GB. The M1 has non-upgradable RAM so you're stuck with whatever you got from the factory.

Nice. I'm always on the fence about spending so much on Apple stuff. To get the kind of power I really want in a computer it ends up costing like $3k or more and I'm just not really comfortable spending that much.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 1:31pm -08:00
Tristan 🌧️ https://twitter.com/twaddington • Jan 27
I just bought a Mac Mini a year ago so am stuck with that for a while. Can't wait for the new M1 Mac Mini to support more RAM.

Yeah the current models are a bit disappointing, but I bought the cheapest one and I'm not planning on using it for very intensive stuff so I figured at that price why not.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 1:24pm -08:00
Randall Degges https://twitter.com/rdegges • Jan 27
So about 2 months ago I ordered the new MacBook M1 Air based on lots of your recommendations, and I have to say, as a lifelong Linux user: it’s really nice! I’m using it as my personal laptop now and it’s really growing on me: super fast, good UI, no compatibility issues so far.

Nice! I just got the M1 Mac Mini for my studio and I've been enjoying it too!

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 12:35pm -08:00
Daniel Appelquist https://mastodon.social/@torgo • Jan 3
Are there any examples of codes of conduct for technical communities out there that specifically deal with bad-faith engagement – trolling, gaslighting, sea-lioning, etc...? Asking for a consortium.

If you actually want some resources, the IndieWeb code of conduct has some of that as well as links and references to CoCs from other communities too https://indieweb.org/coc

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 7:13am -08:00
Photo “Wear the mask” Joseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Jan 26
I think I’m ready for tomorrow’s live show 😳 (there’s a LOT going on at once here…) https://youtu.be/HW1-Rx0KkXg

I'll bring the backup internet in case yours dies again 😅

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 5:33pm -08:00
Katherine M. Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jan 25
Works on http://micro.blog, but not on http://cambridgeport90.org.

Oh I found it. https://github.com/aaronpk/Aperture/issues/100 I'll see if I can track it down.

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Mon, Jan 25, 2021 7:07am -08:00
Katherine M. Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jan 25
Can't remember the issue number, but quick question for @aaronpk. How do I troubleshoot indieauth and aperture?

There should be some info displayed on the screen if there's an error, feel free to open a new issue or drop by the chat with the details

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Mon, Jan 25, 2021 6:57am -08:00
wilkie https://twitter.com/wilkieii • Jan 25
it's convenient for that reason, for sure. I need to figure out how to print out an application and a new photo is the thing.

I took a photo of myself and printed it at home. I'm sure you could use one of those convenience store photo printer things too

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 6:49am -08:00
wilkie https://twitter.com/wilkieii • Jan 25
oh god I need to renew my passport. how in the absolute hell am I going to do that.

I had to do that this year! It was entirely by mail! Took like 3 months turnaround in total, not bad. I figured if there was any time to not have my passport available...

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 6:44am -08:00
Katherine M. Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jan 25
One of the biggest issues I have with some folks in the #Indieweb community right now are the people who want to demetricate social media posts. My opinion on that, is that metrics aren't bad in themselves.

Frankly I agree, I find value in some metrics for various reasons, it's not always a bad thing. There also isn't a single #IndieWeb opinion on this kind of thing, which is the great part about the IndieWeb.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Jan 24, 2021 10:20pm -08:00 #indieweb
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman • Jan 24
What is a food that you or your family eats such an inappropriate amount of that you get comments and side-eye every week from the cashier at the grocery store?

Habanero peppers, about a dozen every week, sometimes more. I buy so many I tell the cashiers the PLU because they never remember it.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Jan 24, 2021 4:36pm -08:00
Chris Messina https://twitter.com/chrismessina • Jan 23
Which display would you buy in that case?

Last time I bought a TV I found a "commercial display" which was the only way to get a not-smart TV. It's the kind of thing you'd buy for airports and bars. I bought this in like 2014 though and I'm hoping I don't have to replace it any time soon.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

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Sat, Jan 23, 2021 6:32am -08:00
Chris Messina https://twitter.com/chrismessina • Jan 23
The @wirecutter recommends buying a @TCL_USA TV. I've never heard of TCL.

I was considering a @SamsungUS QLED Q70T Series.

Am I off base? Should I follow the @wirecutter's recommendation?

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-lcd-led-tv/

Pretty sure they're all the same panels underneath. That said I still wouldn't buy any smart TV. Give me a big display and let me add the smarts in external devices instead.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Fri, Jan 22, 2021 10:40pm -08:00
Django https://social.coop/@django • Jan 22
@aaronpk 21:21:21 21-21-21 in my time zone

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Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 6:23pm -08:00

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Aaron Parecki

My Medium experiment