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Aaron Parecki

  • Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf   •   Feb 19

    Installing ⅚” drywall is way more annoying than ½”!

    Aaron Parecki
    we had to do two layers of drywall on all the walls and ceiling between the units 😮
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
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  • Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf   •   Feb 19

    @aaronpk do you follow @Srl295 on Mastodon yet? I’ve learned basically everything that I know about Unicode from him

    Aaron Parecki
    followed!
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
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  • Charlie https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner   •   Feb 12

    Another exciting evening in Chez Charlie as I connect a Pi, newly-equipped with a Waveshare POE hat, to a POE switch for the first time.

    This setup will be extended to power a lot of smart devices in the new apartment.

    When it’s finished.

    Which will be sometime… in the future.

    #HomeAutomation #RaspberryPi

    Aaron Parecki
    cool, I was considering this for some things but I was worried about how loud that fan on the hat is. Is it audible? I normally run my Pis with a solid heat sink and no fan.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 51°F
  • Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz   •   Feb 8

    @aaronpk To which one can only reply,... OOOOoooF! $35 a visit. harsh.

    Aaron Parecki
    If I add any more trips, the marginal cost will go down, but it hurts to see that I fall into this category now 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Feb 7
    I'm planning out my travel for the year, and now that Brisbane is scratched, I'm barely going to hit Alaska MVP Gold. And if I buy the annual lounge pass, even with the signup bonus discount, it will work out to about $35 per visit.
    Aaron Parecki
    I am simultaneously disappointed and relieved that I no longer fall into the category of top tier frequent flyers.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F
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  • starrwulfe https://micro.blog/starrwulfe   •   Jan 15

    @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.

    Aaron Parecki
    Is there something special about cola that makes it work??
    Portland, Oregon • 26°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Jan 14
    correct. More details here: https://indieweb.org/How_is_IndieAuth_different_from_OpenID_Connect

    It's also about to get a lot more confusing since there's a lot of Verifiable Credentials work being done in the OpenID Connect name too.
    Aaron Parecki
    Technically, if you squint hard enough, you can make the OpenID Connect spec today work like OpenID 1. But in practice nobody does that, and it's not like any current OIDC implementation would magically be interoperable with something that works that way.
    Portland, Oregon • 20°F
  • Simon Willison https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon   •   Jan 14

    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)

    Aaron Parecki
    correct. More details here: https://indieweb.org/How_is_IndieAuth_different_from_OpenID_Connect

    It's also about to get a lot more confusing since there's a lot of Verifiable Credentials work being done in the OpenID Connect name too.
    Portland, Oregon • 20°F
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  • gdp https://micro.blog/gdp   •   Dec 27

    @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.

    Aaron Parecki
    The "limited purpose" FSA is only good for vision and dental, and they've already been a pain about reimbursing dental things they think don't count
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
  • gdp https://micro.blog/gdp   •   Dec 26

    @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.

    Aaron Parecki
    ugh yeah it's so complicated. I decided it's just not worth it to me to save a bit on taxes. I was only doing like $500-600 a year. I might feel different if I was regularly spending $3000 a year.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F
  • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: https://narrativ.es/@janl   •   Dec 2

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

    Aaron Parecki
    oops thanks good catch! Just fixed it. That's what I get for working on this on the plane.
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
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  • Sven Lakemeier https://chaos.social/@sven   •   Dec 2

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

    Aaron Parecki
    I think here that just means "faster than cars" 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
  • Isaac Rabinovitch https://mastodon.social/@isaac32767   •   Dec 2

    @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.

    Aaron Parecki
    I totally agree! The only reason I don't often take the train to Seattle is because it might be a 3 hour trip or it might be a 5 hour trip. If the passenger trains weren't at the mercy of the freight train schedule it would be a different story.
    Alaska Flight 301 MCO to PDX in Worland, Wyoming • 13°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Dec 1
    welp, managed to go a whole year without a major airline snafu until my last work trip of the year. Flight from Miami to Portland was cancelled, and all the other options from Miami were bad. So I'm taking the Brightline train to Orlando and getting on a direct flight to Portland tonight!
    Aaron Parecki
    well I made it to Orlando with plenty of time to spare! Full writeup of the high-speed train experience is coming shortly. Now I just have to cross my fingers that the next flight actually takes off.
    Orlando, Florida, USA • 77°F
  • Brian Richards https://indieweb.social/@rzen   •   Dec 1

    @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?

    Aaron Parecki
    I will withhold judgment on that until I get home. Original flight was going to land at 2pm, now I get back at 10pm. They won't cover the train because that was my choice but I am more interested in a train and long flight than two shorter flights.
    Alaska Flight 337 FLL to PDX in Deerfield Beach, Florida • 83°F
  • Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 https://floss.social/@mcepl   •   Nov 30

    @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?

    Aaron Parecki
    Not sure what you mean by "as his three links" since there are 4 links in my ActivityPub profile, the first of which is my blog. I'm probably going to remove Twitter soon since I haven't even posted there since June. I do run my own git server, but not for public stuff.
    Miami Beach, Florida, USA • 68°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Made 116oz of hot sauce! First batch of hot sauce in the new place!

    The last batch was from April which was a pretty good run. We did run out a week or two ago and broke in to the backup Secret Aardvark stash but that's gone as of this morning.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F
  • Miraz https://micro.blog/Miraz   •   Nov 20

    @aaronpk Your unbelievably cute kitties?

    Aaron Parecki
    Yes! They settled right in to their new home as if they owned the place
    Portland, Oregon • 37°F
  • jeremycherfas https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas   •   Nov 13

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

    Aaron Parecki
    No worries! I'm running it on a test phone until I'm confident that it's working as expected too.
    Portland, Oregon • 51°F
  • Shauna GM https://social.coop/@shauna   •   Oct 31

    @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

    Aaron Parecki
    This is a great list of features! Meetable https://github.com/aaronpk/Meetable supports some of these:

    - quickly clone an event
    - ics feed for the site as well as tags
    - schedule a zoom meeting when creating an event

    It's missing any actual signup or email stuff though, it's meant more as a discovery tool to push viewers to the actual ticketing website. I've been hesitant to expand it to include ticketing, but might be able to be talked into it.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 59°F