JohnPhilpin
https://micro.blog/JohnPhilpin
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Apr 21
@aaronpk and did they survive?
WeChat ID
aaronpk_tv
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they did! they're not even advertised as water resistant, and the pods fell out of the case too! -
Aaron Parecki
https://aaronparecki.com/
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Apr 20
oh no, it finally happened. I left my AirPods in a pocket and they went through the washer and dryer 😱
what the heck, they still work??? -
Not super impressed with the vegetarian breakfast options here. There's eggs and falafel, but the pancakes are way too sweet. There were only two kinds of cheeses. All the pastries, including the croissants, are smothered in sugar.
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Yes! Here for an OAuth event!
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I made it! Got a peek at the eclipse on the SkyTrain, found a spot in the airport lounge by a window to sit while the shadow came over us, then got back on the train to catch the tail end and made it to the gate right when we were boarding!
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haha I wish! No instead I still got up at 4am but instead of going to the airport and getting breakfast in the lounge, I spent an hour on the phone rebooking the flight
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I rebooked on an Alaska flight and it looks like we are about to take off! Hopefully I still make it to Dallas in time for the eclipse! 🤞
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Kevin Marks
https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks
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Mar 23
@aaronpk does this mean that one of your flights is flying through totality?
Nope! Weirdly I land right as it starts, and I'll be in the airport directly under the path of totality, then getting on the next flight right as it's ending! -
Aaron Parecki
https://aaronparecki.com/
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Mar 20
By complete accident, my layover at DFW next month is 100% within the window of the total solar eclipse! 😮
I'm going to have to bring a bunch of extra eclipse glasses and hand them out to people on the plane 😂 -
Philip Borenstein
https://mastodon.social/@pborenstein
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Mar 12
@zachleat White Coat Captioning does the live captions for #WriteTheDocs
Here's a video of how it's done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74D61IulEy0
hey cool I filmed that video! Here's a video of how it's done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIbph7EhK0 -
Matt Haughey 🦣
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie
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Mar 13
@aaronpk I was just repeating something I've heard in lots of tech circles, people really love the 100M line because it means you no longer have to care or even be that careful with your money. I know people with 20M that live like retirees and shop at goodwill, afraid they'd ever touch their principal
when I was 10, my goal was $1 million because interest rates were like 6-8% then, and I was like hey I can live on $5000/month from interest alone! -
Matt Haughey 🦣
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie
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Mar 13
I wrote about billionaires. I didn’t mention how there are no ethical billionaires and I neglected to include a recipe for preparing them with carrots and onions and a nice gravy.
But I did cover just how wildly wealthy a very small number of Americans are, how raising their income tax would barely affect them, and why we should do it immediately.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/american-billionaires-are-a-policy-failure/
Is it bad that my takeaway from this was "$100 million seems like a good goal" -
Zach Leatherman :verify:
https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat
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Mar 12
Looking to provide live captions for the 11ty Conference—do we have any reliable folks to recommend?
I can highly recommend these folks https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/captioning-for-conferences/ I've worked with them on a number of events! -
jan len ala
https://mstdn.social/@iyashikei_kris
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Mar 12
What happened to you Tim, you used to be cool
vc money probably -
blaine
https://mastodon.social/@blaine
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Mar 10
@gintoxicating rather than tying identities 1:1 to a feed (😿), ideally we'd have stable identities that can point to many feeds. If I want to start posting about power tools but my audience is here for my mosstodon content, it'd be nice to be able to expose that as a new feed *alongside* the existing one but also make it discoverable using my existing known identity. We have all the standards we need to do this, but implementations (stares in mastodon) are pretty dumb about it.
This was literally my complaint about Twitter when it first launched! I ended up writing my own little social network in 2007 where each user had "channels", and you could follow an individual channel of content for a user. Too bad I only had like 20 users of it ever 🙃 -
Bastian Allgeier
https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier
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Mar 6
It's the third time that I scroll through guitar stuff on Youtube and in the recommended videos is a thumbnail of someone with hundreds of ticks sitting on their arm, leg or neck. I never clicked on one of those videos or even something slightly related. What kind of shit is going on with the Youtube algo? Is disgust now the new way to create reach? Have you seen shit like that?
I've been noticing a bunch of ads on low quality news websites do that too! It's terrible -
Cyber Yuki
https://hackers.town/@yuki2501
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Mar 6
@aaronpk Nice. 👍
Can I get a link to the wallpaper, if you don't mind?
It's a photo I took in Tokyo last year! https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/22/45/tokyo -
Thanks! It's only a *little* bit staged
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Eric Likness
https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz
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Mar 3
@aaronpk It's not easy. I know the best I ever could do back in 2006 was screwing around with SketchUp! where I could get a "design", layout and have it match the dimension and scale of the actual physical addition. It's hard.
The frustrating thing is I can make a model really quickly in Shapr3D now, but then doing the textures and rendering is a whole separate beast -
Nils
https://coolworld.cc/@n
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Mar 3
@aaronpk For Unreal/Blender there is a nice tutorial on how to get that 'archviz' look, but it doesn't exactly start on square one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e6qQaIdRA
Yeah that's the problem I'm finding, there's just a lot to it!
