Aaron Parecki

John Spurlock https://podcastindex.social/@js • Feb 4
@aaronpk true, true
and "podcast" named after two!

wait, I thought the "cast" was from "broadcast" which is definitely still a thing

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Tue, Feb 4, 2025 11:29am -08:00
nk https://xoxo.zone/@nk • Feb 3
@aaronpk Oh my god I have no idea what I did that that stupid Dogecoin

Yup that's the one. Yours is probably worth about $5000 now too 😬

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Joël Franušić https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 1
@aaronpk www what?

sounds like someone forgot a clause in the SQL query

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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mms :runbsd: + :emacs: :vim: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@mms • Jan 31
Is anyone doing „this week in #indieweb” type of newsletter? I’d love to know what is the buzz.

There's an automated one that pulls from the indieweb wiki and related spaces here: https://indieweb.org/this-week-in-the-indieweb You can add blog posts to it by posting them to IndieNews https://news.indieweb.org/en

Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F

Fri, Jan 31, 2025 6:33am -08:00
https://micro.blog/toddgrotenhuis • Jan 30
@aaronpk oh interesting. What is your storage and reheating process?

Vacuum sealed bags in the freezer. Then air fry at 375 for 7 minutes to reheat! I cut the bags longer than they need to be so I can reuse them several times too.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Thu, Jan 30, 2025 5:56am -08:00
jack the nonabrasive https://mastodon.social/@karabaic • Jan 8
@aaronpk I will have Questions next time I see you.

I will have Answers

San Francisco, California • 56°F

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https://micro.blog/velocykel • Jan 6
@aaronpk completely! I actually started making my own yogurt, which is cheaper and tastes better and never seems to go bad. I’m all for knowing what is going into my food.

ooo I'm glad you've cracked that! I'm still scared of making fermented things, I'm always worried I'm going to do it wrong and then get very sick!

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Sun, Jan 5, 2025 9:10pm -08:00
Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk Ok got it. So what did you spend, ballpark, to replace your Philips Hue bulbs with the Caseta switches?

👀 depends on how you count. I decided to put in Caseta switches in the 2 new rental units as well as our new unit, so adding the current smaller loft we live in was not a huge amount on top of all that.

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

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Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk Would you take 250 for the lot?

I was originally thinking $300 for the lot, but if you cover shipping I'll take 250!

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk Yeah I might be interested. Floods especially I could use more of, and I think the strips could be fun to scatter about. With the standard/floods, are we talking color, ambiance, or just dimmers?

I have 6 floods, 4 old style and 2 new style, all are white+RGB. The two strips I have are very old and may not be 100% on all the LEDs so I'll throw those in for free.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Mitch https://mastodon.xyz/@mitchkiah • Jan 4
@aaronpk were you not a fan of the Hue switches?

They started getting really flaky for me lately, only registering every 4th button press. Plus I never used the middle dimmer buttons, I only wanted them for on/off, and the scene selection modes were super complicated. Really I just want a paddle switch with on/off, and that's exactly what the Caseta Pico remote does!

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk Aha thanks, so the Caseta switches operate over existing light switches mechanically, that's why 'no wires needed'. Will check them out.

There's actually a special "pico" remote that talks wirelessly to any of the wired switches so you can add a switch anywhere on the wall without having planned a wire ahead of time too! But you need to replace the physical switches with Caseta switches first.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk I mean, what have you got?

Many many standard bulbs, several flood bulbs, a few of the old gen light strips and flood lights, a couple switches, two hubs.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:47pm -08:00
Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk The Caseta switch connects to a Caseta light bulb(s)?

The Caseta switches replace your normal wall switches and can control whatever lights are at the other end. The great thing is you can completely forget they are smart switches and they behave just like normal switches that way

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:45pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 3
Goodbye Philips Hue 👋

I finally finished replacing all my Hue lights with Caseta switches.

While I will miss the color temperature control, I am excited that I can attach a switch anywhere that works and looks just like a normal switch, no wires needed!

Side note, if you want a giant pile of Hue lights and switches at a steep discount, let me know 👀

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:22pm -08:00
Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Jan 3
@aaronpk For the cost an space of Waffle maker #2, why not? If you ever tire of waffles free cycle the whole thing.

when lily yells at me for getting a second one I will tell her you said it was okay

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 8:03am -08:00
Philip Borenstein https://mastodon.social/@pborenstein • Jan 3
@aaronpk the picture alone exhausted me, I gotta go lie down

honestly the picture is disappointing to me, I feel like I made a lot more food than the picture makes it look like 😅

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Thu, Jan 2, 2025 6:57pm -08:00
https://micro.blog/velocykel • Jan 3
@aaronpk I did this a few weeks ago too. I don't know why it took me so long to figure out that commercially made waffles are just waffles that are frozen. No secret to it. These look great!

haha right? I've been batch cooking and preserving a lot of things lately and it's given me a different perspective on commercial food production. Like yeah someone cooked that and then froze it and kept it frozen until it made it to your freezer.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Thu, Jan 2, 2025 6:56pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 2
Just made eight weeks of waffles, going into the freezer now. Took almost 2 hours to cook the 8 batches. I should really get a second waffle iron cause it would literally halve the amount of time this takes.

Oops, eight days, not weeks. We only have them on weekends so that's four weeks of waffles. In that case I definitely need to speed this up if I'm going to be doing it every month.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 40°F

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mkj https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj • Jan 2
@aaronpk Linked from https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival#The_List_of_Future_Hosts

oh *from* the wiki, I misunderstood, I thought there was a problem with the wiki. Sorry, no idea then! Maybe it's intentional? 🤷‍♂️

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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