Aaron Parecki

Ivan Bernatovic https://twitter.com/IvanBernatovic • Oct 20
Interesting! That makes sense. Do you get to know which products were sold with your affiliate code? This way you could check if this is the case or not.

On Amazon yes. What's interesting tho is how many unrelated products people buy when there's also a big launch. It's not just a bump in referrals on the new product!

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Wed, Oct 20, 2021 6:50am -07:00
Gerald Undone https://twitter.com/GeraldUndone • Oct 20
Fellow YouTubers, have you noticed your affiliate sales trending downwards for the last several months? Trying to figure out if it's a widespread trend or something broken on my end. Thanks! 🤓🙏

Yes, but mine tends to correlate with product launches and there have been fewer in my niche the last few months so I'm not surprised.

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Wed, Oct 20, 2021 6:28am -07:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Oct 19
I was in the middle of briefing a bunch of people and missed the event.

at some point I want to know what your day job is!

"briefing"? 😅

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 5:23pm -07:00
Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦🗽Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake • Oct 19
Thoughts on Best VPN and why?

The best VPN is the one I run from my house 😊

But for real it totally depends on what your goal of using the VPN is. I use it to access my studio gear remotely, and when I'm on sketchy public WiFi

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 11:43am -07:00
Andrew Hewus Fresh https://bsd.network/@AFresh1 • Oct 19
@aaronpk thanks! No idea why my searching came up short!

not your fault... the docs are a mess!

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 11:24am -07:00
Lila https://twitter.com/lilafromyoutube • Oct 19
the majority voted for first person so @aaronpk is the winner! congrats!

oh haha thanks!! 😻

Portland, Oregon, USA • 53°F

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 11:17am -07:00
Andrew Hewus Fresh https://bsd.network/@AFresh1 • Oct 19
@aaronpk hey, is there a spec for the format of an Okta client secret? A customer wants to know how to store them. Are they guaranteed 40 characters of alphanumeric ASCII?

There is actually! It's between 10-100 chars

https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/apps/#oauth-credential-object

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 11:03am -07:00
Torstein K. Johansen https://twitter.com/torsteinkrause • Oct 19
What a good question!

I don't know if I *need* anything as old as 10 years, but I nevertheless keep backups of all old accounts. My preferred tool these days is "offlineimap" which makes it easy to keep email on file.

That's a good idea, I'm going to give that a try

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Tue, Oct 19, 2021 7:11am -07:00
Ken Shirriff https://twitter.com/kenshirriff • Oct 18
how it started: how it’s going:

The real trick is overlaying a rainbow gradient

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 9:36pm -07:00
Mark Drummond https://twitter.com/IAMAtWork • Oct 19
This probably isn't for everyone but I purge everything older than 7 years, and I've stopped using labels altogether. It's either in my inbox, or archived and I search for it. Actually I do still have one label, for @idpro_org.

At this point my main use of labels is the auto labeling rules I set up so that my inbox is color coded based on the project

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 9:15pm -07:00
amit https://micro.blog/amit • Oct 19
@aaronpk right now is the right time 😁

You're probably right

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D. Schmudde https://mastodon.social/@schmudde • Oct 19
@aaronpk I have carefully downloaded folders and removed them from my SMTP server at this age. Turns out I have never searched such backups. Not even once. So deletion sounds like the way to go.

yeah exactly, my reason for keeping them is that I might want to be able to search them later. I'd say I've found value in some ~5 year old search results, but stuff from before 2010 is from a whole different world at this point.

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 8:01pm -07:00
Mitch https://mastodon.xyz/@mitchkiah • Oct 19
@aaronpk when the anxiety of having them outweighs the anxiety of deleting them

👏 well said 👏

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 7:59pm -07:00
Sam Greenwood https://twitter.com/SamGreenwoodTNS • Oct 19
Hypothetically, if you wanted to keep them but didn’t want them cluttering your primary Gmail you could dump them into a new Gmail account.

That's something I hadn't considered... like forwarding them all? Or is there some way to move them between accounts that I don't know.

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 7:47pm -07:00
PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Oct 19
No live show this week, sorry… too much going on. Hopefully I’ll do one next week and the plan (fingers crossed) is to do it with the @YoloLivTech YoloBox Pro

oh darn I was looking forward to that one!

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:32pm -07:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Oct 19
I mean I assume pro stands for "Getting paid to use this" 🤣

I thought "pro" was short for "prosumer" -- a professional consumer

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:24pm -07:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Oct 19
I'm seeing a lot of weird push back on folks buying the new MacBooks.

Businesses need tools right?

I assume you dont run up to your mechanic and berate them for buying an expensive lift when you take your car in for service?

Apple sells them as lifestyle purchases, so I think what people are actually upset about is that someone else gets to buy that lifestyle that isn't them.

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:21pm -07:00
Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear • Oct 19
Yeah, I hear you. And to be clear, if someone has the money to spend and wants one of them, more power to them. That's awesome. It just ZERO sense for ME to put that money down on a computer, right now.

and like you said, when I think $4000, I think more lenses.

Yeah for sure, I have no issue with people buying them! If I hadn't bought this M1 Air in June I probably would be buying one right now.

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:02pm -07:00
Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear • Oct 19
With the amount of creators purchasing the new $4000 Macs, I need to either:

1. limit my expenses per month.
2. up my YouTube game.
3. Call my credit card company and up my limit.
4. Ponder how much lucrative illegality is worth it 😂

That's the same config I was looking at, and could not bring myself to do it. I just keep thinking about all the other things I could buy with $4000, like a 32x32 SDI matrix, or 10 Lumix G7 cameras, or...

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:49pm -07:00
danj https://micro.blog/danj • Oct 19
@jessekelber Oof, that sounds good. I've had a weird Linux laptop for the last few years, but I just can't seem to love it. I had a 2011 Air for six years and it basically ruined me for any lesser computer. 😍

The 2010-2011 11" was so good! I used that thing for years!

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:48pm -07:00

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