Aaron Parecki

Gabe Kangas https://mastodon.social/@gabek • Jun 12
@aaronpk Weird, these "a year ago" posts of you playing Animal Crossing are showing up at the top of my timeline.

whoa... my website is sending out these notifications for some reason!

Portland, Oregon • 75°F

Sat, Jun 12, 2021 2:12pm -07:00
https://jamesg.blog/printer/

This is so cool! I hope this works!!

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

Sat, Jun 12, 2021 10:37am -07:00
Mark donnery https://twitter.com/Markdonnery • Jun 8
How was the wyze watch?

it's fine, no major complaints, but it doesn't have dramatically better battery life than the fitbit like I was hoping. I also realized I'm losing the granular sleep data by pushing into Apple Health, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

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Tue, Jun 8, 2021 4:36pm -07:00
Adam Roach https://twitter.com/adambroach • Jun 8
I think you’re reaching. If you look at the actual marketing material, it’s the same general notion on both sides. Heck, both of these offerings even have a feature called “Relay™️”.

Basically what I'm saying is Apple is a marketing company and Mozilla is a technology company. It's unfortunate that it takes good marketing for people to notice good technology.

Portland, Oregon • 61°F

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Mon, Jun 7, 2021 7:57pm -07:00
Adam Roach https://twitter.com/adambroach • Jun 7
Receipts, for the curious and/or skeptical.

This is really interesting. Look at the language used to describe both. Apple is describing features of existing products. Mozilla is describing new products giving each a new name. Why would someone care about containers? Tab groups is more use case driven.

Portland, Oregon • 61°F

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Mon, Jun 7, 2021 7:47pm -07:00
Dick Hardt https://twitter.com/DickHardt • Jun 7
Identity coming to Apple Wallet in iOS 15. TSA and US DL scanning. #WWDC21 Q: do we want big tech managing our identity for us?

If this works like Apple Wallet I'm all in. If there's anyone I trust to get this right it's Apple.

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

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Mon, Jun 7, 2021 3:29pm -07:00 #wwdc #wwdc21
Maik Musall https://twitter.com/maikm • Jun 4
@aaronpk Btw I can confirm that even an old Raspberry Pi 2B can totally do RTMP to HDMI bridging. Uses about 12% CPU with 1080p60 h.264 high profile 4500 kbps, with no more latency than the 4B. I streamed to both in parallel to test, no difference.

oh that's very good news, thanks!

Portland, Oregon • 61°F

Fri, Jun 4, 2021 9:48am -07:00
Maik Musall https://twitter.com/maikm • Jun 4
This is also an XS, but for conferences it doesn’t matter really, because the phone’s cam quality isn’t the bottleneck. Showing off a nice forest/garden background to all the office-sitters totally makes up for it ;)

Fair enough!

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Fri, Jun 4, 2021 7:07am -07:00
Maik Musall https://twitter.com/maikm • Jun 4
@aaronpk Saw your “more minimal setup” for video conferences. Here’s my take, without even a laptop. Using the phone’s cam+mike for the actual conference, having the iPad completely free to work during the conference. Custom 3d-printed stand for both together.

That's awesome! I'm gonna have to try that some time! Might have to wait until I get a new phone tho cause the front camera on the iPhone XS isn't great

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Fri, Jun 4, 2021 6:53am -07:00
Zachary Snader https://twitter.com/DREAMSLOTH • Jun 4
Pretty sure you just need to sign up and link your KMikeyM account.

There's not even a sign up step. Just go here and click "sign in with kmikeym" and you should be in https://weejee.io/login

Portland, Oregon • 78°F

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Thu, Jun 3, 2021 7:37pm -07:00
fuesschen https://social.tchncs.de/@fuesstest • Jun 3
@aaronpk Don't you use some headphones in your little setup?

oh I forgot to put them in the photo! I usually use AirPods!

Portland, Oregon • 75°F

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Thu, Jun 3, 2021 12:05pm -07:00
KmikeyM https://twitter.com/kmikeym • Jun 2
in my quest to invest in an alternative asset in every state i am drawn to liquor companies… it just seems like a good business! Lucky Sign Spirits Distillery is my first investment in Pennsylvania https://app.honeycombcredit.com/projects/12353-Lucky-Sign-Distillery

Nice! I'm in!

Portland, Oregon • 79°F

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Wed, Jun 2, 2021 11:16am -07:00
Chris Bolas https://twitter.com/chrisbolas • Jun 2
No vibration motor. Only a singular piezo beep. Also doesn't actually show content of a message, really just a high level info with an icon for the type. I do not use mine for notifications at all. I just wanted a digital watch that happened to track HR, steps, and sleep.

I mean honestly it sounds kind of ideal! And a good price too!

Portland, Oregon • 76°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 10:32pm -07:00
Chris Bolas https://twitter.com/chrisbolas • Jun 2
Actually it appears Zepp will directly connect to Apple Health. https://support.zepp.com/us/faq/170

Cool, this is promising then. I'm going to have to look into this more, thanks!

Portland, Oregon • 76°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 10:08pm -07:00
Chris Bolas https://twitter.com/chrisbolas • Jun 2
I've had mine since March and it's been pretty great so far. I have questioned 'jail breaking' it to use gadgetbridge instead of zepp, but I haven't been bothered to as of yet.

I have two criteria for this kind of thing. The sleep tracking has to be automatic, not requiring turning it on at night, and there has to be an API or it has to sync to Apple Health. Do you know if it has these?

Portland, Oregon • 79°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 8:56pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://twitter.com/aaronpk • Jun 1
this tweet was brought to you by me being frustrated at my Fitbit watch and realizing the only thing I really want a watch to do is tell time and be a calculator, neither of which the Fitbit does well

Oh wow, this looks really interesting! I don't know how I've never heard of it before!

Portland, Oregon • 83°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 8:53pm -07:00
Joël Franusic https://twitter.com/jf • Jun 2
ICYMI: https://kk4vcz.com/goodwatch/

Whaaaat this is amazing

Portland, Oregon • 85°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 8:15pm -07:00
cdevroe https://micro.blog/cdevroe • Jun 1
@aaronpk I have one! Bought it like 5 years ago.

I had one when I was a kid! Really tempted to buy one again right now tho

Portland, Oregon • 89°F

Tue, Jun 1, 2021 2:40pm -07:00
Tom Buck https://twitter.com/sodarntom • Jun 1
So yeah, I replied to your other tweet before seeing this. FYI I do have one of these and it's perfect.

✨ amazing 🤩

Portland, Oregon • 75°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 10:27am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jun 1
TIL you can still buy Casio calculator watches on Amazon, but they are "vintage" now

this tweet was brought to you by me being frustrated at my Fitbit watch and realizing the only thing I really want a watch to do is tell time and be a calculator, neither of which the Fitbit does well

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 10:23am -07:00

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