Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk I remember doing a science experiement in elementary school involving several 2 liter bottles of generic cola from the local store and a very cold day (I think it was 22ºF/-6ºC?) doing exactly this in our schoolyard. Very fun, and very cold.

OpenID Connect, aka OIDC, has basically nothing to do with the original OpenID protocol beyond the name, right?

(It's taken me nearly a decade to figure that out)

@aaronpk I'm just approaching the age where I can find things to spend it on, so I have maxed out the benefit the last couple of years. Assuming a 33%(ish) effective tax rate, that gives me just under $1000 of additional buying power. But for $500 or so, no, it would most certainly not be worth the hassle of dealing with ASI.

@aaronpk Our insurance told us they were changing FSA providers for next year and that brought me great joy because the old one is so terribly difficult to deal with. It's almost not worth the hassle. Then a couple of weeks ago, they alerted us that there will be no change after all. I'm on a health plan for state employees, so I assume they made the original announcement while the ink was still drying on the new contract and then something fell through at the last minute.

@aaronpk nice write up, thanks! One of the images doesn’t load for me.

@aaronpk "high speed" ;) But yeah, the US needs more trains

@aaronpk Sigh. The bit about the tracks depressed me. The Talgo trains Amtrak Cascades uses are designed to run just as fast as the Siemens trains Brightline uses. But track conditions don't allow it.

I mean, all the amenities you describe are very nice, but having trains that fast would be life-changing for of lot of people in the PNW, even if you had to dine on stale crackers.

@aaronpk hey, not too bad as far as travel snafus, go. Still annoying and inconvenient, but an impressive streak nevertheless!

What's the delta between your final arrival time and the original? And did the airline cover the cost of the alternative arrangements?

@aaronpk I am certainly not the first one who noticed that the former champion of use-your-own-server and #Indieweb has as his three links only corporate monosilos, right?

@aaronpk Your unbelievably cute kitties?

@aaronpk Super glad to hear this, although I think I will wait for the release.

@JMMaok @dajb I am looking for:

- ability to create recurring events (or at the very least, easily duplicate and edit events)
- automated confirmation and reminder emails that can be customized with ie a zoom link
- custom sign up forms

Ideally also:

- has a calendar integration or provides an .ics feed, so events automatically populate our public calendar
- has a zoom or other videochat integration so I don't need to separately set that up

@aaronpk is pkce used very often? When I was initially implementing pkce in a few cli tools I didn’t see a lot of people talking about it. Most people I talk to are familiar with oauth but you mention pkce and they don’t know it

@aaronpk is pkce used very often? When I was initially implementing pkce in a few cli tools I didn’t see a lot of people talking about it. Most people I talk to are familiar with oauth but you mention pkce and they don’t know it