Aaron Parecki

Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek • Dec 23
@aaronpk I know, right!? I guess there's no rules about what you can name yourself... but if it's the opposite maybe it crosses the line.

you know who does have rules about what they can name things... pharmaceutical companies!

Portland, Oregon • 20°F

Thu, Dec 22, 2022 6:45pm -08:00
Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek • Dec 23
It's not something I hear people talking about, so I'll just throw it out there.

#OpenAI isn't open.
It's received $1 Billion in funding from some of the biggest names in venture capital.

What happens when these investors influence the output of #ChatGPT? How would we know there's a bias?

We should be literally afraid of one company, who owes so much to so many other entities, being seen as a future all-knowing answer source. These VCs will get a return one way or another.

when I first heard about OpenAI I was like oh cool so it's like open source AI? oh, no it's not open source, but at least the API must be open then? no? I have to sign up for a paid plan? 🤔

Portland, Oregon • 20°F

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Thu, Dec 22, 2022 6:35pm -08:00
Trey Piepmeier https://indieweb.social/@trey • Dec 23
Anybody have advice on good bookkeeping software for a small #indieweb business? Is QuickBooks really the best game in town?

This year I switched from QuickBooks (Desktop) to YNAB, which isn't exactly business bookkeeping software but I am choosing to use it that way. So far it's been nice, but we'll see how I feel about it once I have to send reports to my CPA.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 20°F

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Thu, Dec 22, 2022 4:32pm -08:00
chris.jif https://twitter.com/chris79 • Dec 22
No prob, man :)

And, if you want it to not do the "unskip" thing, just comment-out lines 39-41

https://gist.github.com/chris-79/4ffb9318c42cb3d0a0e8e7d670cfd332#file-export-current-slide-to-png-applescript-L39-L41

Yeah that's tricky, because if you don't skip all but the selected slide, then it exports all of them. Ideally there should be an AppleScript action for exporting only the selected slides, but I don't think that exists.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 20°F

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Thu, Dec 22, 2022 9:59am -08:00
chris.jif https://twitter.com/chris79 • Dec 22
I forgot that I already had an AppleScript action in @KeyboardMaestro that does this 🤦‍♂️

https://share.cleanshot.com/Dp6XLS7MGnjzg0TRkwsq

I made an "App: Keynote" folder that only activates for that app

https://gist.github.com/chris-79/4ffb9318c42cb3d0a0e8e7d670cfd332

That AppleScript is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! ✨

The only minor inconvenience is that it sets all slides to unskipped afterwards, but that's fine for how I'm using it in this case!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 20°F

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Thu, Dec 22, 2022 9:50am -08:00
Keyboard Maestro https://twitter.com/keyboardmaestro • Dec 22
I definitely can do it. As for stopping clicks from working, I actually can't do that, so I'm not entirely sure what happened. Ask on the forum (https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/) if you need some help making the macro.

Alright I will give it a try!

https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/export-current-keynote-slide-as-png/30317?u=aaronpk

Portland, Oregon, USA • 28°F

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Wed, Dec 21, 2022 6:05pm -08:00
Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman • Dec 22
Ok #Remarkable users, this is an AMAZING upgrade! It’s a custom generated PDF for your eink device that turns it into a HYPERLINKED planner! Almost a full app inside a single 600+ page PDF! I’m kicking myself I didn’t think of it http://tiktok.com/t/ZTRqkabBs/ -> http://hyperpaper.me

I literally just made one of these for myself! The year overview layout on mine is based on a wall calendar layout I've been using for 5 years, and I haven't seen any other PDF planners that do it this way! I decided to list mine on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/aaronpk/listing/1366795167/2023-remarkable-2-digital-planner

The customizer/generator website is brilliant though!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 31°F

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Wed, Dec 21, 2022 5:40pm -08:00
https://pdx.social/@ungoldman/109554749722286265

Nice, well congrats! I hear they need all the help they can get right now! Lily worked there right up until the acquisition so I got to hear all sorts of stories 😅

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 5:35pm -08:00
Miraz https://micro.blog/Miraz • Dec 22
@aaronpk Oh wow. Sorry to hear it broke things!

I want to believe in it!

I am also a little bitter that it took over the command-tab behavior without any warning and with no clear way to revert it 😠

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 5:32pm -08:00
Miraz https://micro.blog/Miraz • Dec 22
@aaronpk If you're a Mac user this is where Keyboard Maestro really earns its keep. Set up the steps then assign a trigger — could be a keystroke, or click a button, for example. I have all kinds of things set up in KM that work like that.

I just tried but I can't figure out how to get KM to read a specific text field in the export screen and change the value. I tried the "record" feature, and then it broke my computer and I had to restart the OS and uninstall it.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 5:23pm -08:00
chris.jif https://twitter.com/chris79 • Dec 22
@KeyboardMaestro, my friend. It can do the most amazing things… Like make that sort of click-heavy task a mere keystroke

Well that was a massive fail. I tried it, but I don't think it can get into the specific bits needed to make that work in Keynote. Then it took over my computer and they keyboard and most clicks stopped working. Had to restart.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

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Wed, Dec 21, 2022 5:09pm -08:00
Aaron Huslage https://social.huslage.com/@aaron • Dec 22
@aaronpk can’t you automate keynote with Shortcuts?

You'd think so. I can't find any actions that would work for that.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 4:47pm -08:00
Scott Jenson https://social.coop/@scottjenson • Dec 22
@aaronpk Keynote as a vector drawing tool is vastly under-rated

also for animations!!

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 4:20pm -08:00
nate https://pdx.social/@ungoldman • Dec 21
just for me

wait since when do you work at Trillium?? Did I know this?

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Wed, Dec 21, 2022 2:13pm -08:00
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 😅

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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

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