Aaron Parecki

Dick Hardt https://twitter.com/DickHardt • Oct 16
you know you are getting old when you tweet a "get off my lawn" victory. =)

oh no

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Sun, Oct 16, 2022 8:23pm -07:00
Nk https://twitter.com/NikolasWise • Oct 17
When did I last water this plant

as if I have ever been able to keep a plant alive

Portland, Oregon • 68°F

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Sun, Oct 16, 2022 7:38pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 16
I had no idea these "time since last opened" pill caps were a thing and also so cheap, and now I want to make these for all sorts of different reminders, like

• when did I last feed the cat?
• when did I last pump up my bike tires?

of course, it would also be tied into my home automation system so I could surface that data on other devices around the house.

I'm imagining an esp32 with OLED screen and a nice push-button switch. Pretty sure I could fit that into a neat 3D printed case.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 70°F

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Sun, Oct 16, 2022 7:03pm -07:00
jack the nonabrasive https://twitter.com/karabaic • Oct 16
You should put a sign up telling kids not to come in, but inviting them to have their parents contact you for a tour when you're there. I mean, kids are curious. Give them an outlet.

I don't know if I need to invite that kind of liability on myself, plus half the fun of it is wandering around without grownups around

Portland, Oregon • 80°F

Sat, Oct 15, 2022 6:13pm -07:00
jack the nonabrasive https://twitter.com/karabaic • Oct 16
I'm of two minds about this, as a kid who screwed around construction sites 50 years ago. You did provide them with a story to tell. If you had a speaker that said, "Intruder alert. Killer robots activated," it would have been an awesome story.

That will be version 2

Portland, Oregon • 80°F

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Sat, Oct 15, 2022 6:03pm -07:00
Alex @ Plane Sailing Games https://twitter.com/NAlexWhite • Oct 14
255gb sounds like an enormous thumb drive! That’s like the base level HD for a whole laptop (from some companies…)

It's really not bad, like $20-30 for a 256gb thumb drive from reputable sources. They don't have to be as fast as the SSD in a laptop.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:21am -07:00
Jonathan Maus https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus • Oct 14
take my money aaron!

hah I hadn't really planned on turning it into a service, but now I'm kind of tempted to set up a site where you can log in and buy a USB drive with your Flickr data that I'd ship to you!

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:18am -07:00
topgold https://micro.blog/topgold • Oct 14
@aaronpk super to know. I wonder if Flickr embeds geolocation into EXIF data when I drop photos onto Flickr's maps. I'm going to download a few to see

IIRC it doesn't embed it, but the geo data is available via the Flickr API and is included in the archive. I didn't include any map generation code in this site build, but the data is there to use later.

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:08am -07:00
topgold https://micro.blog/topgold • Oct 14
@aaronpk were you able to download Flickr albums and keep photos associated with your albums? I have more than 30,000 Flickr photos and think I would need to spend a weekend sorting downloaded content.

Yep, it makes a complete archive. Albums, tags, even comments. It's all browseable as a website by just opening index.html on your drive.

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:05am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 14
I just finished downloading my whole Flickr account to a static website. Now browsing around it is much faster than looking at the same photos on Flickr, and it makes me want to get back to actually organizing my photos again!

After downloading all the different resolutions Flickr has, it turned into 255gb on disk. Not bad, would even fit on a thumb drive.

Here's the source if you want to try this yourself!

https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr

Portland, Oregon, USA • 62°F

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:00am -07:00
🎙Alex Knight🎚 https://twitter.com/ZeroDistraction • Oct 13
I’ll talk to DVE store, but there’s a disconnect between the assembly instructions and the parts list. The parts list says only two drop in M4 nuts are provided, but the assembly PDF says extra nuts are provided to install additional accessories.

There should be a separate little bag in the kit with M5*8 screws and two M5 slide-in nuts. We can send that to you if it's missing! Good point that it's missing from the parts list though.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F

Fri, Oct 14, 2022 7:36am -07:00
Tim Chambers https://indieweb.social/@tchambers • Oct 14
@aaronpk This could be self hosted: https://pixelfed.org/
And would I think completely covers all of Flickr 1.0 features at least.
@pixelfed

Pixelfed looks neat but is definitely going for more of an Instagram feature parity than Flickr

Portland, Oregon • 75°F

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Thu, Oct 13, 2022 6:32pm -07:00
Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake • Oct 13
I can’t believe there are only 12 weeks left in the year!

thanks I hate it

Portland, Oregon • 77°F

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Thu, Oct 13, 2022 1:15pm -07:00
🎙Alex Knight🎚 https://twitter.com/ZeroDistraction • Oct 13
@aaronpk Just assembled the PK1 Pro Streamer stand for the Atem Mini Extreme ISO. It mentions it comes with replacement bolts to attach the Smallrig 1842 monitor mount, but there are no nuts to screw those bolts into. Nothing mentioned in the instructions.

hmm it should have come with two slide-in nuts for that. Send an email to the store you bought it from and we can fix it!

Portland, Oregon • 76°F

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Thu, Oct 13, 2022 1:01pm -07:00
donpdonp https://mastodon.xyz/@donpdonp • Oct 13
@aaronpk https://pixelfed.org/ is the fediverse flickr. I dont know how it compares, feature-wise.

I'd say it's more of the fediverse Instagram. Flickr was always less about the timeline and scrolling thru photos and more about organizing by tags and albums

Portland, Oregon • 64°F

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Thu, Oct 13, 2022 10:20am -07:00
PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Oct 13
Since Instagram *still* doesn’t let you put clickable links in posts… I’m looking for a service that replicates the grid with links to anywhere so it’s easy to find the post you were just looking at and tap to go that YouTube video. Any favorites?

I remember looking for these a while ago, there's a ton of them, but I ended up making my own with some simple HTML/CSS template I found https://aaronpk.tv/links/

Source: https://github.com/MichaelBarney/LinkFree

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

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Thu, Oct 13, 2022 6:43am -07:00
Christian Waidner https://mastodon.online/@ChrisMcZork • Oct 12
@aaronpk Pixelfed? https://pixelfed.org/

maybe? That's still way more social network-y than what I actually want, which is sharing photo albums with select people.

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:45am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 12
also, the tools for managing photos are extremely limited, like not being able to adjust modification dates of photos, and not being able to choose sort order within albums

basically I just want Flickr but self hosted 😭

Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:31am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 12
I decided to try out NextCloud for this, it mostly works, but has some weird things:

• The new dashboard view is completely useless for this use case
• It's weird that I'm giving people an entire toolset just to be able to look at photos

also, the tools for managing photos are extremely limited, like not being able to adjust modification dates of photos, and not being able to choose sort order within albums

Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:26am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 6
Hello internet friends!

What is the best way to share a set of photos with a select few people, while being able to add more photos over an extended period of time? Must not rely on creating an account like on iCloud.

I have my own thoughts but I am interested in other ideas!

I decided to try out NextCloud for this, it mostly works, but has some weird things:

• The new dashboard view is completely useless for this use case
• It's weird that I'm giving people an entire toolset just to be able to look at photos

Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:25am -07:00

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