Aaron Parecki

Perpetual exhaustion is the key to falling asleep on airplanes.

Seattle removing planter boxes they used to protect bike lanes because the planter boxes frequently got hit by cars is some kind of a thing

Sometimes I forget that I'm a musician. Writing & performing live soundtracks at conferences was the way I got in for free so I could get to know many of the folks I collaborate with now. There's a metric ton of music I wrote & performed between 2014–2017, but have yet to record.

Seeing a lot of people post their salaries, most of whom are deleting after for a variety of reasons. As someone who did doctoral level research on salary negotiation and has designed the compensation strategy for 2 distributed tech cos, I have some add’l context that may help.

burnout culture is finding new hobby in an attempt at self-care then trying to figure out how to monetize that hobby so that it, maybe, will pay your way out of burnout culture

There’s no code faster than no code.

It’s worth remembering that, at the time that the Internet Protocol was being designed in the 70s, countless competing standards (like ATM and XNS) that had more features (but were thus less modular and evolvable) ultimately lost against IP’s minimalism.

IP has thus come to be known as the "Narrow Waist of the Internet". It is the single protocol through which all traffic flows. Its most obvious advantage is that it decouples the application layer from the hardware layer so that each may evolve independently.

I wouldn’t want to be in the photo software business.

Offer a subscription? Folks are pissed.

Offer paid upgrades? Folks are pissed.

I guess the photographers who want free software must be the same ones who work for exposure.

Thanks, @aaronpk! Thanks for the extra stickers and sending them across the pond.

Last year’s edition was the most productive protocol event in YEARS. If you work in this space and want to have high bandwidth conversations with some of the smartest people in the industry, Trondheim is the place to be next July :)

Yes! Cultivate a talent THEN film it. Big YouTubers have something to say & usually talented in something: filmmaking, skating, slime, singing, instruments, storytelling, gaming, teaching ETC ETC
I love kids want to make money being creative. Not easy but worth aspiring towards!