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Aaron Parecki

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  • Kate Compton, actual doctor of weird ai https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate
    Hivemind question:

    Whats the technology/approach for a person who wants to build a self-hosted site for very low volume e-commerce?
    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
    Thu, Jan 30, 2020 4:24am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 9:15pm -08:00)
  • Kate Compton, actual doctor of weird ai https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate
    Because I'm grouchy about the "everyone uses npm" discourse today, I just wanna remind people the

    YOU CAN STILL MAKE WEBSITES IN WHATEVER TOOLS YOU WANT

    HTML + JS and a lil vanilla CSS? Just HTML and some gifs? Heckin' ASCII?

    Also theres a club for it
    https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    Thu, Jan 30, 2020 3:27am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 8:07pm -08:00)
  • Kate Compton, actual doctor of weird ai https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate   •   Jan 29
    Question about JS modules:

    I'm using a complex-ish library (js + css + svg) for html JSON editors

    But the github page only lists "how to build for npm", and lacks any "dist" folder with regular js files, or even a CDN version

    Why would this be the case?
    https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/
    Aaron Parecki
    I can't stand when projects do this. For me it's a sign that the library is overengineered and I probably don't want to use it anyway.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F
    Wed, Jan 29, 2020 8:06pm -08:00
  • Jessica Meir https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica
    Fine, visor up this time – but at least the magnificent Earth still makes an appearance too. All #spacewalk #selfies (and other photos) made possible with a Nikon D5 with a 28 mm lens in a protective housing (visible in center of 2nd photo). #SelfieSunday
    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
    Sun, Jan 26, 2020 10:42pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 6:29pm -08:00) #spacewalk #selfies #SelfieSunday
  • Manton Reece - Replies hosted at your own blog (www.manton.org)
    Wed, Jan 29, 2020 10:10am -08:00 #microblog
  • Tim https://twitter.com/dysinger
    Having ported my phone numbers several times to/from cell<->voip providers, I can tell you that it is incredibly insecure. You need basic information and then you "promise" that you are the owner. It gets ported. It works in the new provider. The cell phone will just stop working
    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
    Wed, Jan 29, 2020 1:22pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 6:59am -08:00)
  • Amanda Folson https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum
    My time at @Vonage is coming to an end. I have ~10 years experience with #devrel or devrel-adjacent work and have given over 100 talks in the last 5 years. If you're in need of a developer advocate/community person with some management experience, let's chat!
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:06pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:29pm -08:00) #devrel
  • Luc Perkins https://twitter.com/lucperkins   •   Jan 28
    I would love to be wrong, but I'm beginning to feel pretty strongly that using IRC for all communications is a good way to keep your OSS community an Old Boys Club
    Aaron Parecki
    Exactly why we bridge all of IRC, Slack, Matrix and Discord for the IndieWeb chat. Regardless of where you join from it's all the same chat. https://indieweb.org/discuss
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:28pm -08:00
  • Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee   •   Jan 28
    My earlier point is that everyone needing to buy a domain name is an unreasonable expectation for the vast majority of people.

    We pool resources for all sorts of things in meatspace society. Most people do not have a reason to be “every person for themself” digitally.
    Aaron Parecki
    Sure, and in that case, share a domain with a friend/community you trust. My problem was very specifically with your wording "go get a Mastodon somewhere" for these two similar but unrelated reasons:

    https://indieweb.org/own_your_data

    https://indieweb.org/plurality
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:25am -08:00
  • Justin Richer https://twitter.com/justin__richer
    One of the hardest things about standards work is that there are just so many great hills to die on.
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:35pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:51am -08:00)
  • Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee   •   Jan 28
    To parrot back: Do you run your own email server? Unless you're running your own, you don't own your email identity, the server admin does.

    I think distributed instances with their own rules are many steps forward from our current centralized position. Better is good.
    Aaron Parecki
    Nope, email *domain* not email server. My email address is @parecki.com but it's gmail behind it. That means I can swap out gmail for running my own server later and nobody who emails me will ever notice. That's the difference.
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:27am -08:00
  • Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee   •   Jan 28
    https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee/status/1222129855258558466
    Aaron Parecki
    Sure, but I just don't think a blanket "join a mastodon somewhere" statement is really beneficial overall.
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    2 replies
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:21am -08:00
  • Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee   •   Jan 28
    I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .
    Aaron Parecki
    Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your mastodon identity, the server admin does. Sure it's better than the Twitter monolith, but getting a mastodon account "somewhere" doesn't solve the underlying #indieweb problem.
    Portland, Oregon • 49°F
    2 likes 4 replies
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 6:46am -08:00 #indieweb
  • Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy
    Idk why it always happens this way but somehow all my big videos drop in the same week along with a lot of other stuff and i need to learn how to spread things about better because i'm tired
    Portland, Oregon • 51°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:37am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 9:45pm -08:00)
  • Internet of Shit https://twitter.com/internetofshit
    wtf does a coffee machine need internet for? wrong answers only, thx
    Portland, Oregon • 50°F
    Tue, Jan 28, 2020 1:54am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:35pm -08:00)
  • Michael Bishop https://twitter.com/miklb   •   Jan 27
    You might be interested in Overland from @aaronpk https://overland.p3k.app/
    Aaron Parecki
    Sadly mine requires manual action to start/stop individual trips. It'll passively track *everything*, but not intelligently like Moves used to do.
    Portland, Oregon • 48°F
    1 like
    Mon, Jan 27, 2020 2:48pm -08:00
  • Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz   •   Jan 27
    "An update on bradfitz"

    After ~12.5 years at Google and ~10 years working on Go, it's time for me to do something new. Tomorrow is my last day at Google. 👋

    I'll still be involved with #golang but less, and differently.

    More:
    https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google
    Aaron Parecki
    wow congrats, and what an excellent goodbye post!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F
    4 likes
    Mon, Jan 27, 2020 9:44am -08:00
  • Matthias Ott https://twitter.com/m_ott
    My article about personal websites is on the front page of @newsycombinator atm and I was brave enough to read the comments. 🙈

    Guess what: People are adding links to their sites and #RSS feeds below! 🎉💪🤗 #takebackyourweb
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156868
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
    Mon, Jan 27, 2020 3:27pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 8:23am -08:00) #RSS #takebackyourweb
  • Peter Friese 🥑 https://twitter.com/peterfriese
    This is a wonderful explanation of OAuth. Go and watch @aaronpk tell you a couple of scary stories how websites handled sign-in just a few years ago, and how OAuth changed all of that for the better.
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
    Mon, Jan 27, 2020 3:48pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:49am -08:00)
  • Devon https://twitter.com/devonzuegel
    Soon I'll be that crotchety old lady grumbling at the youngins:

    "Back in my day, we had Google Reader! And Highly! And Mailbox! We *trusted them*. Don't make the mistakes I made. Trust no one."
    Portland, Oregon • 45°F
    Mon, Jan 27, 2020 2:48pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:04am -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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