Aaron Parecki

Day 42 - Sprinkles

Day 42. I'm heading to DonutJS tonight to film the evening's talks. I threw this together to use as the intro/outro music after I publish them. It's a re-creation in a similar style to the stock music I've used on those videos before, so nothing fancy. The video is the background of the donutjs.club website.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 3:36pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Day 42: New Sleep Posts from FitBit #100DaysOfIndieWeb

I should have known this one would take longer than I expected.My Jawbone UP finally died, so I replaced it with a FitBit. I've really enjoyed the Jawbones, but I'm not confident in the future of the company's wearables department. I decided to take the plunge and dive in to the FitBit ecosystem instead. I got a new FitBit Charge 2, which among other things includes a heart rate monitor which I'm excited about. But step one was rewriting my sleep import script to pull sleep data from FitBit instead of Jawbone.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 12:44pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #sleep #jawbone #fitbit
I have high hopes for @manton2's http://micro.blog Kickstarter project! Today's the last day to back it! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing #indieweb

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 9:19am -08:00 #microblog #kickstarter
When I see an access token that begins with "eyJ", I base64-decode the middle part to see what data they store in it. #oauth #jwt #security

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 8:09am -08:00 #oauth #jwt #security
Day 41 - Anticipation

Day 41. I originally thought I would use a clean pulse synth sound for this one, but then decided it sounded better as a piano sound instead. I also added a bass line that mirrors the piano's low notes to fill out the sound. The bass line has an EQ filter that moves around during the sustained parts in order to give it a sense of motion until the next phrase comes in. I have a whole second part I want to add to this, but this was getting long and I was getting tired, so I stopped there. At the end, I added a very subtle crackling filter that fades in and out during the middle.
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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 9:59pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
If you're interested in PGP encryption, come to the Beer of Trust key-signing party next week! Beginners welcome! http://calagator.org/events/1250471374

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 5:18pm -08:00 #pgp #beeroftrust
Day 41: Easier Posting to IndieNews #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Following up on yesterday's update of adding a Webmention form on IndieNews' Webmention endpoint, today I finished building out the UI for submitting to IndieNews from a browser.Now the "Submit" link includes a form where you can paste in your post's URL, in case your website doesn't send Webmentions automatically.
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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 11:25am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indienews #webmention
Aw man, and I *just* bought a new @FitBit too! http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14439028/fibit-layoffs-q4-earnings-report-weak-holiday-sales

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 8:55am -08:00 #fitbit #wearables
Day 40 - Melancholy

Day 40. This is mostly me playing the piano live. In a few places I adjusted the timing, and I added a couple notes that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to reach. I doubled the piano with two slightly different piano sounds, and they are panned hard left and hard right. This adds a bit of depth to it. I added the drum track at a relatively low volume to kind of keep things moving a bit more than it would without the drums. This one came out a lot more melancholy than I thought it was going to despite it being in a major key.
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Sun, Jan 29, 2017 8:48pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
If you haven't figured out what all these videos I've been posting are, I figured I'd give a quick update.

Starting at the end of December, I've been writing and publishing one short song per day. They usually end up being a brief sketch, but the goal is to publish something "finished" enough that it could be used in a podcast, TV show, background music, or something similar.

I'm now 40 days into the project, just under half way done! It's been a really interesting experiment so far. Not that these can all be considered complete, but I've now written more songs in the last 40 days than I have ever before, so I'd already consider this a success. The pressure to start and finish something each day is pretty intense. I'm not always happy with each one I publish, but this is more about exercising my ability to come up with something new every day than it is about making something "perfect".

If you want to catch up on the 40 things I've published so far, I've been publishing them to a bunch of different platforms so you have no excuse not to listen to them ;-)

• Podcast available on iTunes and Google Play (search "100 Days of Music")
• Podcast feed: http://podcasts.aaronparecki.com/100daysofmusic/feed.xml
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aaronpk/sets/100-days-of-music
• Add to your Amazon Alexa flash briefing: https://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Parecki-100-Days-Music/dp/B01N1YPGPX/
• And of course my website: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Jan 29, 2017 8:47pm -08:00 #music #100daysofmusic
Day 40: Webmention Form for IndieNews #100DaysOfIndieWeb

I realized today that if you visited the Webmention endpoint for IndieNews in a browser, it showed a 404 page, since the Webmention endpoint was only registered for POST requests. Today I added a page that is served for a GET request.
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Sun, Jan 29, 2017 4:25pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indienews
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Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Jan 29, 2017 7:05am -08:00
Day 39 - Escalation

Day 39. I don't know if you can really call this one a "song". This is an attempt at making something that could be used in a trailer or as the end of an episode of a TV show. There is a base track of a few layers of string instruments, and then I layered a whole bunch of other sounds to build up to the big "boom" at the end. I reversed a couple of the sounds so that they build up instead of taper off. There's also a heart beat at the super low frequencies that doesn't actually follow the rhythm of the rest of the piece, which I think gives it a nice bit of dramatic effect. This time, I was mixing it while listening on both headphones and my desk speakers to make sure it comes across okay without headphones.
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Sat, Jan 28, 2017 9:04pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Day 39: Including a Featured Photo when Syndicating an Article #100DaysOfIndieWeb

I've noticed a pattern in the blog posts that I write about these #100DaysOfIndieWeb updates, which is that I almost always include a photo in the article, most of the time embedded in the text. When I syndicate these articles to Twitter, I was previously only including the name of the post and the URL to the post, but I wanted to include the photo as well.Today I updated my syndication code to check for a "featured" photo when syndicating blog posts. It first checks for a "featured" property in the post's storage file. (So far I don't actually have any examples of storing it that way.) It then parses the post's HTML and checks if there is an image with the "u-featured" class. If so, it includes that image in the request to syndicate the post via silo.pub.Now my syndicated articles will include an image!
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Sat, Jan 28, 2017 6:51pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #p3k
Fancy coffee because I feel like it #cappuccino

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sat, Jan 28, 2017 11:29am -08:00 #cappuccino
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Portland, Oregon, USA

Sat, Jan 28, 2017 7:20am -08:00
at Open Signal

Portland, Oregon • Fri, January 27, 2017 6:11pm

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#StreamPDX meeting 🎙

Portland, OR, United States

Fri, Jan 27, 2017 6:11pm -08:00 #streampdx
Day 38. I wanted this one to be mostly piano, with just a hint of some other sounds. You might want to listen to this one with headphones for the full effect. The atonal sounds you hear are sampled from a gong. I like how some of them sound like muffled speech.

Portland, Oregon

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Fri, Jan 27, 2017 4:41pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Day 38: New Sneaky Redirect Test for webmention.rocks #100DaysOfIndieWeb

This was a tricky one, spawned from when sebsel failed to discover the Webmention endpoint for one of Zegnat's posts. In that case, the Webmention endpoint was a relative URL and sebsel was sending a Webmention to a URL that was also an HTTP redirect.The new test, webmention.rocks #23, instructs you to send a Webmention to a URL that is a redirect, and that page advertises a relative URL endpoint. You'll need to make sure that the URL you pass to your relative URL resolver is the final URL after following the redirect, rather than the one you start with.So give it a shot! Test if your relative URL resolution code works properly!
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Fri, Jan 27, 2017 11:06am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #webmentionrocks #webmention
Derek Rose http://about.me/derekrose • Jan 27
pebble's is great... Oh wait

@bishma 😢

Portland, Oregon

Fri, Jan 27, 2017 8:39am -08:00

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