Aaron Parecki

I'm making a board game about the craziness that is driving around Boston. We've just launched the crowd funding campaign, check it out: http://gridlock.info/

You know that you should possibly think about your work / life balance when you begin an email with:

hi tomas,
hi hannes {

An AI self-driving trolley with *fully functional* brakes heads down a track. The AI recognizes 5 people on the track ahead.

Does the trolley:
1. Engage the brakes, saving lives
2. Kill the people. Handling jaywalking was not a stakeholder requirement

Ethics are so COMPLICATED!

My new approach: if a car seems to be heading towards me and I'm about to be run over, I shall shout "npm update" as loud as I can.

Or maybe "Alexa, npm update".

Of course, they probably use yarn.

Every time I go to a conference, I think to myself "I don't know anyone, I hope I meet people" and every time, I end up with some kind of group that becomes more than just colleagues, they become friends. That's this group for #oredev!!

Huge crowds out today to hear @aaronpk discussing Smarter Home Automation Without The Cloud. Starting out with some great examples of when home automation has gone horribly wrong if servers go down. #oredev https://twitter.com/BaileyHanna/status/1192462917830090757/photo/1

Urgh. Has anyone successfully applied for a Twitter developer account recently?

I feel we may need to crowdsource the incantation that gets new accounts approved.

*apple watch buzzes*: meeting in 10
*phone calendar pop up*: meeting in 10
*desktop calendar pop up*: meeting in 10
*slack reminder*: meeting in 10

YEAH OK I GOT IT, MEETING IN 10

11 minutes later:
OH FUCK MY MEETING

Tech conferences are the best version of reality.
The amount of collaboration, friendship building, and just open and honest discussions about challenges/wins is incredible.