Aaron Parecki

Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf • Dec 21
okay, surprise twist! the support person hit me up a day later and said they talked to their boss on my behalf. they sent me my activation key!

this was a very pleasant turn of events and I’m back in the Blackmagic fan camp (though I’d still love to see more modern key mgmt)

glad to hear it!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 33°F

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Wed, Dec 21, 2022 8:50am -08:00
Nicole is front-end.social/@stubbornella https://twitter.com/stubbornella • Dec 21
These days he’s mostly channeling this energy for good. He’s reading a JS book @sarah_edo lent me and quizzes me on how JS vars work. 😂 He loves it when I make a mistake.

I'm so glad you've kept this thread going for 2 years, that was quite the journey 😅

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Tue, Dec 20, 2022 9:18pm -08:00
Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf • Dec 20
don't inconvenience yourself too much, but if you've got the spare cycles: I have my serial numbers for the speed editor and Resolve Studio license and this is a ~2-week-old purchase — it feels like this would be a very easy fix for them if they wanted it to be

Sent an email. Will let you know when I hear back, but we're now heading into the holidays so I can't promise a timely response 😅

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Tue, Dec 20, 2022 8:51pm -08:00
Ben Ward https://benward.social/@benward • Dec 21
@aaronpk One of the versions of this inside Twitter for a while was named “voices”, which I always liked the feel of. Being able to follow either an entire account or specific channels has some interesting utility, for sure.

ohh did this get prototyped but never shipped? I think it'd be really interesting for sure! The good news is we can just do this on the web instead!

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

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Tue, Dec 20, 2022 4:41pm -08:00
Ben Ward https://benward.social/@benward • Dec 20
One interesting thing to explore with having my own domain on here is being able to separate create utility accounts strongly associated with my name. @blog, as a very simple initial example.

Ages ago I built a social network that worked like that! You could create categories under your account and people could follow all or some of them. I called them "channels" then.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/albums/72157633041808362

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Tue, Dec 20, 2022 3:25pm -08:00
Jeremy Fiel https://twitter.com/jeremyfiel • Dec 20
@aaronpk probably knows some folks there rather than a generic news feed

oof yeah that's tough, a side effect of the low tech activation key mechanism they use. I can reach out to my contacts to help if you'd like tho.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Tue, Dec 20, 2022 1:15pm -08:00
Sven Lakemeier https://chaos.social/@sven • Dec 20
@aaronpk since putting on Schwalbe Marathon I had not a single puncture, I can highly recommend those

Thanks I might have to try that next

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Tue, Dec 20, 2022 6:43am -08:00
gene https://twitter.com/pdxgene • Dec 20
I’ve long since given in to the luxury of allowing a specialist to fix my bike tires. The walk-up window at @SellwoodCycle has 100% spoiled me…

Yeah this may be the answer 😬 Until about last year I always went to a bike shop if I had a flat. Barely ever had flats. Replaced my tubes three times this year and got a flat again shortly after each time. I am clearly not cut out to be a bike mechanic.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 7:42pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Dec 19
So far today is going great. I tried to fix my bike's flat tire and it went flat again an hour later. And now my external SSDs aren't mounting which is making it very hard to do work.

Can I call in a "technical difficulties day"? It's like a sick day but for my stuff.

The nice part of replacing my tube twice in one day means I'm getting faster at disassembling and reassembling the whole rear wheel on the Brompton. Took only 18 minutes the second time!

Maybe I should schedule monthly sessions to keep practicing.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 7:39pm -08:00
Nate https://xoxo.zone/@voiceofunreason • Dec 19
@aaronpk When I get back-to-back flats like what you reported, I spend like, 15 minutes thoroughly inspecting the tire for embedded metal/glass/thorns. Sometimes they can hide incredibly well and don’t poke their pokey bits out until the tire is inflated. So, lots of flexing and feeling around the inside of the tire.

I will do that. Last time the flat was on the seam of the tube. This time it was on the side. Could be a pinch flat, since it had been a couple weeks since I last pumped up my tires.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:40pm -08:00
Nate https://xoxo.zone/@voiceofunreason • Dec 19
@aaronpk I worked at bike shops for a dozen years and rarely ever got flats. I got a better paying job in tech and my flats-in-a-year rate has gone up, no joke, at least 5x. I’ve angered the bike gods.

lol! This is my third flat this year too, after having previously had only like one flat on this bike since I got it in 2017. I don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:33pm -08:00
Dr. Julie Gurner https://twitter.com/drgurner • Dec 19
I hear that. I had *finally* gotten my Global Entry in 2020, and had a trip to Singapore ready to roll...
Alas, it was not meant to be.
But one thing I discovered is just how much time was wasted in travel - and it definitely changed how I operated.

absolutely! The few trips I've done this year have really made that very clear to me, especially contrasting with the previous year of a packed schedule of virtual events.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:18pm -08:00
Lon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️ https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman • Dec 19
@aaronpk Tell me more about P3k!

It's my home-grown CMS that powers my website, I rebuilt my site in 2016 to be the central hub of all my online activity. Some design notes here: https://indieweb.org/p3k

Totally separately, I have https://aaronpk.tv for my YouTube channel, which indexes all my livestreams, including the questions from the chat that you can search! https://aaronpk.tv/questions/?s=yolobox

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:15pm -08:00
Dr. Julie Gurner https://twitter.com/drgurner • Dec 19
Realize that traveling for work is usually a massive time waste & cut it by 80% for next year. The best way to recover, is not to continually put yourself in the same cycle.

At the end of 2019, after 40 cities and 97 days on planes, I told myself I was going to significantly cut my travel down for 2020. Turns out that plan kind of made itself 😂😬

Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:05pm -08:00 #travel
Lon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️ https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman • Dec 19
On my YouTube channel tonight I’ll be discussing some ways I’ve implemented #indieweb practices into my work. I’ll also look at some things I’d like to do in the future.
Would love to get some feedback from the experts ! Video goes live at 6:45 pm and will also be linked here when it goes live.

wow, my worlds colliding! I've been following your YouTube for years now!

I'd love to chat more about this. I've been putting a bunch of #IndieWeb principles to work on my YouTube channel as well!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 1:59pm -08:00 #indieweb
Ken Westin https://twitter.com/kwestin • Dec 19
Yeah, they don't make it easy, I had to contact a rep.

oh wild, I used to do that all the time but they said they stopped doing it a few years ago

Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 10:24am -08:00
Randall Degges https://twitter.com/rdegges • Dec 19
Anyone know how to fix an issue where someone looks suspended on Mastodon but I know they aren't? Trying to follow my buddy @aaronpk@aaronparecki.com but it says his account is suspended :o

weird, I think it means I am blocked by the instance. You should email the instance admin to find out why. I'm curious too!

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 7:07am -08:00
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Dec 18
There is precedent:(

good thing I posted that before the new "rules" went into effect? not that I believe for a second they wouldn't apply the rules retroactively

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Sun, Dec 18, 2022 3:06pm -08:00
Pablo https://twitter.com/pablogl • Dec 18
Is your website stack open-source? I'm keen to implement something more than just webfinger on mine and am looking for inspiration.

It's not, but mostly because it's pretty messy. I do have this which is a standalone ActivityPub project meant to integrate into other sites, needs some updates though. https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sun, Dec 18, 2022 12:34pm -08:00
brian schrader https://twitter.com/sonicrocketman • Dec 18
Did you build the activity pub stuff yourself or are you using something under the hood?

I built it directly into my site in like 2018. Finally paid off haha

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Sun, Dec 18, 2022 12:33pm -08:00

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