Aaron Parecki

Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson • Feb 18
Was the Gmail basic view any better? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

I'll let you know as soon as the support site loads its web fonts

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Greenvale, New York • 45°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:56pm -05:00
Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink • Feb 18
They may be simultaneous connections but you make it sound like a server farm. They are "periodic" demands for upload or download. Maybe 30% of 300 seats are connected, for 90 connections. 10% hit the return key at the same moment, for 9 hits to the uplink at any instance.

They allow YouTube now, so that's not necessarily the traffic pattern anymore.

But my point was that unless you actually have experience running these systems I don't think it's fair to criticize them.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 46°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:54pm -05:00
Bernie Beats Trump https://twitter.com/doctorow

Insecure Surveillance Cameras Provide Dystopian Peep Show https://hackaday.com/2020/02/18/insecure-surveillance-cameras-provide-dystopian-peep-show

Caroline Buttet's Virtual Peephole is an Arduino-powered box that taps into a random selection of insecure CCTVs: every time you lift the shutter, you get a different feed.

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Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 45°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:23pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:46pm -05:00)
Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink • Feb 18
I hear you, but I wonder if you don't have it backwards. 2020 is the year and airlines WiFi is like 1995 dialup? Something is wrong and I think it may be in the sky.

I don't think that's fair to say until you've personally had to maintain a wifi network that supports 300 simultaneous connections where the only uplink is an unstable satellite or cellular connection.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 45°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:45pm -05:00
Alan https://twitter.com/alanmoo • Feb 18
That’s a shame, I once had Gmail be the only way I could access a file to print on a really old computer because of its legacy support.

I know! It used to be so good! Ever since the new UI it's just gone straight downhill.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:44pm -05:00
Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager • Feb 18
I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

Been there more times than I'd care to admit 😂

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:43pm -05:00
Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager

I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:36pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:42pm -05:00)
Googlers should be required to develop their apps on 5 year old computers with a network connection capped at 1mbps with 100ms latency. On this flight today I've tried to use Gmail, Google Flights, and Adsense, and they are either ridiculously slow or just don't work.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania • 39°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:32pm -05:00 #google
I'm not opposed to this view. Actually kind of looking forward to spending the day getting some work done on this plane.

Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Seattle, Washington • 33°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 8:10am -08:00 #mbfeb #sunrise #travel
Lesley Carhart https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes

There’s this phenomenon I like to call VPB: Valley Pattern Blindness. It’s when a tech startup forgets every QA case for their product / feature outside temperate weather in a wealthy, internet-connected urban area, and nobody in the QA / development process catches them either.

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 10:44pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:55am -08:00)
Adam Sharp https://twitter.com/AdamCSharp

A whatchamacallit in different languages:

7. Thingamajig (English)
6. Chingadera (Spanish)
5. Himstergims (Danish)
4. Naninani (Japanese)
3. Zamazingo (Turkish)
2. Dingsbums (German)
1. Huppeldepup (Dutch)

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 7:07am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:54am -08:00)
James Long https://twitter.com/jlongster

I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 5:35am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:44am -08:00)
James Long https://twitter.com/jlongster • Feb 18
I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable

I really like @NotionHQ but it logs me out of the desktop and iOS apps far too often and then won't work until I get internet again and it's really just unfortunate.

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:44am -08:00
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman

If you like it you should put a URL on it

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

Mon, Feb 17, 2020 9:37pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:43am -08:00)
DHH https://twitter.com/dhh • Feb 18
Amazing how well that 13-year old take has held up 😍. Not only does offline matter even less now than it did, the technology to do it is finally almost trivial (service workers). Glad we never wasted time on attempting it before that!

If the tech is trivial, why do so many apps fail to do it properly?

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:42am -08:00
Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy • Feb 18
Our parents have Dave Ramsey we have Jake Paul #FinancialFreedom #blessed

I hadn't heard of Jake til just now, but you might actually like this podcast which is free, not $20/mo 😂 http://www.ohmydollar.com/tag/podcast/

Seattle, Washington • 33°F

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:39am -08:00
at Gate B15

SeaTac, Washington • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:29am

47.441034 -122.303849

Made it!

SeaTac, WA, United States

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:29am -08:00
at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)

SeaTac, Washington • Tue, February 18, 2020 7:23am

47.443589 -122.302508

Gonna be a close connection... flight is already boarding

SeaTac, WA, United States

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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:23am -08:00
Vika https://fireburn.ru/

Kittybox Companion for Android is now open-source! https://gitlab.com/vikanezrimaya/kittybox-android

It’s really rough, lacks IndieAuth (for now), can’t load Microsub posts beyond first page, the pictures are small (I need to make a popup overlay to enlarge them), and Micropub attachments are utterly broken. But otherwise it works for me!

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:48am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:55am -08:00)
Okay this is pretty cool. Thanks to the magic of Wireguard, I now have bidirectional connectivity between my home network and this remote server rack! Devices on either side don't need to run wireguard and don't need any special configuration, and can reach hosts on both sides. I haven't found any documentation on configuring this, so I'm going to have to write this up soon! Shoutout to @mitch for figuring out the missing piece to make this work!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Mon, Feb 17, 2020 9:05pm -08:00 #mbfeb

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