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  • Day 18 - Maple and Spruce

    Day 18. I wasn't sure where to start today, but I remembered that it was my friend Barnaby's birthday! I first met Barnaby on the Internet, and later met him in person at an IndieWebCamp. In addition to being a prolific contributor to many IndieWeb projects, he also plays *and makes* Hurdy-Gurdys! What's a Hurdy Gurdy? It's a very cool instrument that is kind of like a key-fretted violin played with a circular bow. I went to his website http://waterpigs.co.uk to see what sorts of musical things he's been up to lately, and found a neat melody called "Maple and Spruce" written out. I decided to use this as the basis for today's song. Oh and I should mention that this arrangement is not actually trying to sound like a Hurdy-Gurdy, although I imagine it would sound great played on it too. So happy birthday Barnaby!
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    6 likes 1 repost 1 reply
    Sat, Jan 7, 2017 7:28pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 18: Showing Full Repost Content in p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

    At the beginning of last year when I was working on rebuilding p3k, I made the decision to drop showing the full contents of my reposts in favor of launching the new site sooner. It's been bugging me for a long time, since it means that my reposts aren't really reposts at all, they're just a list of links.Today I took the first step in showing the full contents of my reposts. Since my posts are all based on mf2 property storage, I updated my templates to display the post like one of my posts if the "repost-of" property is an object rather than just a string.Now my reposts look like this!
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    1 like 6 mentions
    Sat, Jan 7, 2017 1:37pm -08:00 #indieweb #repost #p3k #100daysofindieweb
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    Sat, Jan 7, 2017 6:19am -08:00
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    Day 17. This is a piano solo I recorded in only a couple takes. After recording, I added some chorus, delay, EQ filters, and a phaser effect to make it sound like it was sort of out of tune and far away. I guess I was going for the "something is slightly off" vibe. I considered adding some other instruments but ended up sticking with a piano solo for this one.
    Portland, Oregon
    13 likes 3 replies 1 mention
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 8:43pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Tim Tepaße 🦣 https://twitter.com/ttepasse   •   Jan 7
    @aaronpk https://aaronparecki.com/articles doesn't seem to have an XML feed, am I correct? I'd love to subscribe to one.
    Aaron Parecki
    @ttepasse I don't generate an XML feed (too much extra code) but you can paste any of my feeds into https://granary-demo.appspot.com/?x=94&y=43&input=html to convert them!
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    1 like
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 4:24pm -08:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    If you have an Amazon Echo, you can hear a new song by me every day with your #FlashBriefing! Add my #100DaysOfMusic skill in the app!
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    8 likes 1 repost 1 reply
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 12:53pm -08:00 #FlashBriefing #100daysofmusic
  • Week in Review #100DaysOfIndieWeb

    aaronparecki.comDay 11: I dropped the web font in favor of a handful of system fonts for various platforms.Day 13: I added support for drawing curved maps lines to Atlas, which I use to generate the maps on my site. Now my travel plans show a nice line for each flight leg.Day 16: I improved the display of comments on my posts, including displaying some basic HTML formatting from comments, autolinking comment text, and showing images.
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    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 11:39am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #quill #p3k #ownyourgram #alexa #teacup
  • Day 17: Documentation for Quill #100DaysOfIndieWeb

    Quill started out as a sample Micropub client with a lot of useful debugging information. As it's grown, I've been slowly adding more posting interfaces to Quill, and tweaking them to look less like a debugging tool and more like a real app. Instead, micropub.rocks has taken over as a more detailed debugging utility for building a Micropub endpoint, so I can now optimize Quill for being more user-friendly and less developer-focused. At IndieWebCamp Germany in 2015, I added a rich editor to Quill, inspired by the clean Medium interface. You can even use the Quill rich editor without being logged in! It will save the post to your browser's localstorage as a draft, and let you post it after you log in. I wanted to make an interface that anybody would feel comfortable writing in, and be able to show it to people without them first logging in, as an introduction to what it might look like to have nice writing applications that aren't tied to a specific backend like Medium.In order to help people get started with Quill, today I wrote some more documentation for it!When you're logged out and click the "publish" button, it prompts you to log in and links out to the documentation home page.
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    3 likes 1 repost 1 reply 3 mentions
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 11:24am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #quill #indieweb #100daysofcode
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    Yeah that's me http://xkcd.com/1782/
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    6 likes 4 reposts 1 reply
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 8:56am -08:00 #xkcd #irc
  • jack the nonabrasive @karabaic@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/karabaic   •   Jan 6
    didn't think of twitter!
    Aaron Parecki
    @karabaic of course there's always the domain name too! https://w7apk.com
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 8:04am -08:00
  • jack the nonabrasive @karabaic@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/karabaic   •   Jan 6
    Got my vanity call sign: KA7RAB. Now I can get bike plates like @aaronpk. Next month: get that extra license.
    Aaron Parecki
    @karabaic hah awesome! Here's where I got mine from! http://www.ebay.com/itm/162062260994 Don't forget to get your Twitter account too: @W7APK
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    1 reply
    Fri, Jan 6, 2017 8:02am -08:00
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  • Aaron Parecki
    #internetofshit https://twitter.com/find_evil/status/816846566799470593
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    1 like 1 repost 1 mention
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 10:05pm -08:00 #internetofshit
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    Norway is replacing FM radio with a 20 year old digital format and how is this the first I've heard of it? http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/norway-fm-radio-switch-off-digital-1.3923612 #merica
    Portland, Oregon, USA
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    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 10:02pm -08:00 #merica #radio
  • Day 16 - Woodbury

    Day 16. I dug up an old radio show called Mr. and Mrs. North, and the opening had a fantastic ad for Woodbury Cold Cream with a little acapella jingle. I decided that it would be a great bit to sample for the basis of today's song. I also incorporated some parts of the narrator's voice into the track. The video that goes along with this is snippets from the Mr. and Mrs. North TV show.
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    8 likes 1 repost 2 replies 1 mention
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 7:43pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
  • https://twitter.com/tomas_quinones/status/817158447019868161
    Aaron Parecki
    @tomas_quinones It's great, but fair warning, it's nothing like playing a real piano. I treat it more as a quick way to key in chords.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
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    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 4:01pm -08:00
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    Kind of crazy to see the whole year laid out like this. #planning #2017
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 3:31pm -08:00 #planning #2017
  • Day 16: Improved Comments Display for p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

    Today I started autolinking the text in comments on my website, and made a couple other minor improvements to how they look.Previously, links, @-names and hashtags were rendered as plaintext, so comments weren't clickable.
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    2 replies 3 mentions
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 12:57pm -08:00 #p3k #indieweb #100daysofindieweb #100daysofcode
  • https://twitter.com/tomas_quinones/status/817055134198792192
    Aaron Parecki
    @tomas_quinones I also have a 25-key XKey https://amazon.com/dp/B00DU2VKV8/?tag=apkdotcom-20 which is very portable but feels like a laptop keyboard
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    2 replies
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 9:11am -08:00
  • https://twitter.com/tomas_quinones/status/817055134198792192
    Aaron Parecki
    @tomas_quinones I haven't tried that one. I have a full-size keyboard at home with hammer keys so it feels very realistic.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Thu, Jan 5, 2017 9:10am -08:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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