Aaron Parecki

Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons • Mar 14
Oof. Sounds like a terrible game.
So maybe not even related to NBC? Just people trying to get SEO juice by linking to them? I don't get the rules of this gross house of cards.

Yeah, I think the idea is to clone articles on popular topics from major new sites, and send them all pingbacks to get the back-links to boost the ranking of the spam site. SEO can DIAF.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:14pm -07:00
well that was unexpected! I have a "secret" hashtag in the post, so the post shows up on the #indieweb hashtag page even though I didn't mention #indieweb in the post at all!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F

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Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons • Mar 14
Good lord.

I did one quick chat for an NBC news piece and they linked to my website.

Now my WebMentions are a dumpster fire - filled with all their crappy, low-quality syndicated copies of the article.

Counted 38 bunk domains all pointing back to the canonical NBC domain

also fwiw, that kind of spam usually comes in via pingback, so you can just not include the pingback tag to webmention.io and accept only webmentions instead

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:05pm -07:00
Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons • Mar 14
Good lord.

I did one quick chat for an NBC news piece and they linked to my website.

Now my WebMentions are a dumpster fire - filled with all their crappy, low-quality syndicated copies of the article.

Counted 38 bunk domains all pointing back to the canonical NBC domain

What's very weird about those two examples, is both websites are now something totally different and those blog posts are gone. I think it's part of an SEO scam game of some sort.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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eve6 https://twitter.com/Eve6 • Mar 13
Can’t argue with this though

I wear my legacy verified badge with pride 😇 If they ever make it look like I'm paying for the badge I will get rid of it asap.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Kevin McCoy https://spacey.space/@kmccoy • Mar 13
@aaronpk I'm anti-trackpad under any circumstance (maybe BECAUSE I'm only ever really trying Windows laptops? Maybe if I was a Macbooker I'd be more cool with trackpads? Probably not I think). So I'm totally happy to grant you that but I'll always pull out the MX Master anyway. :)

It's true, I do feel far less frustrated using a mouse with my windows computer. But weirdly I feel more frustrated using a mouse with my Mac, but the trackpad on the mac laptop is great. Also I don't really like the external Mac trackpad? Computers are weird

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Jake Sloan https://twitter.com/jakesloaninak • Mar 13
my video coming tomorrow is 🔥 literally fire in the sky. Can you guess what I used to take these with?

Ooh! I know! A camera?

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Mar 13
What laptop do you have? I am on a Surface Pro 8 and the responsiveness is fully comparable to the MBP pro… well, the win10 one, at least. I have another SP8 w win11 and that one is indeed a bit laggy 😅

It's the Razer Stealth 13, I bought it in 2019 so it's not exactly new, but it was new and best of class at the time! I did just update it to Windows 11 because it basically forced me to.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Kevin McCoy https://spacey.space/@kmccoy • Mar 13
@aaronpk I have very much the same experience when I use Mac, so I really do think it's just about what you're used to. I'm thinking about buying a Mac and spending time on it just to build up familiarity.

it's funny because I grew up on windows computers, but stopped using them around the XP era. I agree that most of the differences are learned, but I swear Macbook trackpads are the absolute best no question, and no PC laptops come anywhere close.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Molly White @ SXSW https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF • Mar 12
listen, it's just a little difficult to take seriously some of these VCs and execs who are panicking about SVB under the guise of being worried about the employees and the little guys

"Maybe we don't talk twitter on twitter DM 😂"

wow

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 7:20pm -07:00
Brett Slatkin https://twitter.com/haxor • Mar 13
After hacking on Windows native MSVC builds for about a month in an emulator, it stopped feeling so weird. But it was a struggle for weeks. Muscle memory is extremely hard to overcome. "Mind over matter" — I think not.

oh gosh, I feel like I'm using an emulator every time I interact with this physical windows laptop. It just doesn't respond as fast, the trackpad is wildly less accurate, it feels like I'm one step removed from the interactions with the computer

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 7:16pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Mar 12
The value is created by the way in which you list it.

"Cast iron stove, need this gone by tomorrow, $10 first come first served"

"Create a cozy, romantic home with this stunning cast iron stove. Its intricate details and elegant design make it a perfect conversation piece. At only $1000 this is sure to go quickly, so don't wait, make it yours today!"

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Mar 13
How do I find the value of this? This used to be a gas furnace, but the guts are ripped out, so it’s just decorative unless someone restored it. New, these things cost well over $2,000. It’s cast iron and weighs a ton. I can’t figure out if it’s worth $10 or $1,000!

The value is created by the way in which you list it.

"Cast iron stove, need this gone by tomorrow, $10 first come first served"

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Andrew Turner (@ajturner@nullisland.social) https://twitter.com/ajturner • Mar 12
Thanks for the example. I’m writing a blog post about the hidden costs of DST changes

Nice, I look forward to reading it!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 12:53pm -07:00
Jake Sloan https://twitter.com/jakesloaninak • Mar 12
Shoot in 8k with a higher shutter speed and you get 33mp stills 😂

That's cheating 🤫

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sat, Mar 11, 2023 9:47pm -08:00
Thomas Cantrell https://twitter.com/thomas_cantrell • Mar 12
Now do leap seconds!

oh no

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Sat, Mar 11, 2023 8:12pm -08:00
Jared https://twitter.com/thejjburden • Mar 12
Wait, what!!!

right???

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Mar 11, 2023 7:45pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Mar 11
🤯 TIL MySQL is aware of daylight savings time, and considers any times between 2am-3am when the clocks skip forward an invalid date!

In one session, it might throw an error, and in another session, it might store 3:00am instead of 2:05! 🤯

omfg, TIMESTAMP type columns are timezone-aware, but DATETIME columns are always UTC. How have I been using MySQL for 25 years and never known this

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/datetime.html

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Gretchen Felker-Martin https://twitter.com/scumbelievable • Mar 10
This is a MONTHLY budget. The rich have absolutely no connection whatsoever to reality.

I've seen worse! At least they put retirement savings way up in that list!

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 9:51pm -08:00
Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear • Mar 11
We're apparently, so far, gearing up for a Basic Filmmaker live stream "reunion" without the Basic Filmmaker lol (I asked. He's not going)

hahaha I love this I am in. Don't tell Kevin 🤫

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