Aaron Parecki

Sumana Harihareswara https://social.coop/@brainwane • Nov 21
@aaronpk I feel ya. Today I curated a few lists to make it more likely I can keep up with individual humans I already know, to make it feel more okay to not be a completist about my home feed.

oh yeah I don't even have a home feed because I use my own software, I've always followed people by putting them into different groups.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Sun, Nov 20, 2022 5:32pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 20
good news: my Mastodon/fediverse timeline has already ramped up to the level of activity of my Twitter timeline

bad news: catching up on my Mastodon/fediverse timeline is now as noticeably bad for my mental health as Twitter was

and no I'm not actually using Mastodon, and yes everyone I've followed I've grouped into different lists, I don't have a "main timeline" to read. That's helped a lot, I can choose to dip into different communities when I want to.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F

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Sun, Nov 20, 2022 5:32pm -08:00
avocado https://wordpress.avocado.lol/author/avocado/ • Nov 19
This is a post from WordPress apparently using the new block editor. Let’s see what happens!
#activitypub
https://wordpress.avocado.lol/2022/11/19/48/

What happens if I reply to this?

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 7:23am -08:00
https://layer8.space/@robbystk/109371075821046774

well that's really something!

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 7:08am -08:00
Nelson Minar https://tech.lgbt/@nelson • Nov 19
@aaronpk be sure to get a smart panel like Span.
Did you update the labels?

hmm span looks interesting but I'm skeptical because it relies on their cloud service. Do you know if it has local API access too?

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Sat, Nov 19, 2022 5:47am -08:00
Tim Roth https://twitter.com/timothydeanroth • Nov 19
Did you pay for a blue check though?

absolutely not

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Charlie O'Hara https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner • Nov 19
Do NOT “just have a quick look” at your #homeassistant app while on holiday and accidentally turn on all the lights at 2am, terrifying your apartment-sitter and leading her to believe in poltergeists.

Oops yeah those buttons are a little bit too easy to click

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:53pm -08:00
Olivier Forget https://social.tchncs.de/@teleclimber • Nov 19
@aaronpk or wire it with 12V 😎

There's gonna be so much 12v and PoE wiring everywhere 😎

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:52pm -08:00
Courtney R. https://hachyderm.io/@oh_that_courtney • Nov 19
@aaronpk We just had our house remodeled and they installed another breaker panel that doubled the number of circuits. Some Saturday I need to map out a good listing of everything.

Yes please definitely map those out, preferably before everything is finished 😅

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:48pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 18
Ok we actually should hang out again tho since we're both in Portland instead of waiting to randomly bump in to each other in Lisbon like before 😅

ohh I just realized that the reason I was in Lisbon was because I was at one of the W3C meetings of the Social Web Working Group, working on the IndieWeb/ActivityPub specs! How poetic. 😇

Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:47pm -08:00
Troy Howard, in Solidarity💙 🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/thoward37 • Nov 18
Everyone's talking about revealing their Twitter crushes. TBH if I follow you, I'd probably date you, and might already have a mild crush on you, so, uh. DM me while you can, especially if you're in Portland. Let's hangout!

Ok we actually should hang out again tho since we're both in Portland instead of waiting to randomly bump in to each other in Lisbon like before 😅

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:43pm -08:00
Thomas Cantrell https://twitter.com/thomas_cantrell • Nov 19
Time for a new extracurricular certification test?

https://oregonelectrictestprep.com/

Don't tempt me

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:31pm -08:00
Tim Trautmann https://photog.social/@tim • Nov 19
@aaronpk yikes. Is there a sticker inside the breaker box as to who installed and approved it?

I mean, it's a 40 unit apartment building, you'd think someone would have double checked these things

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:30pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 18
2) it took me 5 tries to find the breaker for the dishwasher. The one labeled dishwasher didn't turn anything off. Eventually I found that the one labeled "kit lights/living room" turns off the dishwasher

I can't wait to overengineer the crap out of the circuits for my new house.

Yesss give me 20A outlets on the ceiling and at twice the minimum density on the walls, preferably on two different circuits!

And why not throw a few floor outlets in there while you're at it

Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:23pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 18
Whoever did the electrical wiring in this apartment should have their license revoked.

1) the circuit marked "bedrooms" serves literally every lower outlet in the entire place, including both bedrooms and the living room, and the only place to hook up an AC ...

2) it took me 5 tries to find the breaker for the dishwasher. The one labeled dishwasher didn't turn anything off. Eventually I found that the one labeled "kit lights/living room" turns off the dishwasher

Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:20pm -08:00
BikePortland https://twitter.com/BikePortland • Nov 19
Fresh paint at NE Tillamook and 7th 👀👀👀

Whoa that wasn't there yesterday! Guess it's time to do another drone photo

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:49pm -08:00
Geraldine @everywhereist@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/everywhereist • Nov 18
I'm signing up for a LOT of newsletter subscriptions. Drop yours in the replies.

umm mine is just a notification right before I go live on YouTube does that count https://news.aaronpk.tv/subscribe

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:40pm -08:00
Tom MacWright https://twitter.com/tmcw • Nov 19
can a blog be an activitypub server, so i don't have to do some rss->mastodon zapier hook or whatever, you could just follow a website directly in mastodon?

Yeah sort of, if you don't want to DIY the whole thing your best bet is https://fed.brid.gy

I linked to some other options depending on what you're looking for here https://aaronparecki.com/@aaronpk

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:29pm -08:00
Tom Coates https://twitter.com/tomcoates • Nov 18
If you’re also a super old Twitter user let me know by DM if you’d like to participate. But you have to be super old or were involved in that early period. And maybe we can get a conversation going.

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Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:20pm -08:00
Andy Baio https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio • Nov 19
Happy to announce that Lost for Words, my wife Ami's new card game, is out now!
https://lostforwords.cards/
It's a game that lets you explore hard-to-translate feelings from around the world, with over 300 words from over 70 languages.
Like the rest of the Pink Tiger Games catalog, I made the website and helped with the visual design and editing. Check it out!

whaaat this sounds so cool!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:48pm -08:00

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