Aaron Parecki

Tyler Stalman https://twitter.com/stalman • May 6
Definitely hire a bookkeeper and CPA, but the hard truth is that you should do the grown up thing and learn everything you can about your finances. No one will care about your money the way you will and you’ll have less of it if you try to outsource it.

Very true, but when everything is stressful, it's okay to outsource things. Eventually, sure, take back some of those responsibilities to save money, but sometimes the reduced stress is worth it.

Portland, Oregon • 72°F

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Tue, May 5, 2020 5:48pm -07:00
Caleb Pike https://twitter.com/calebpike • May 6
I find it’s more affordable to split it up. For me, Bookkeeper does the month to month, CPA does taxes/biz reports, financial advisor for investing.

For sure, but when you hate dealing with stuff that much, you can also hire a personal organizer to coordinate those three. I did that for a while!

Portland, Oregon • 72°F

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Tue, May 5, 2020 5:24pm -07:00
davemaze https://twitter.com/davemaze • May 5
I’m terrible with money. I hate handling it!😱

Can I hire someone to literally do everything for me?

Taxes, savings, investments, etc.

I want to hire someone to do absolutely everything. What kind of person would that be?

Personal organizer or professional organizer. Seriously, this was me a few years ago, and it was great having someone deal with everything.

They will have to contract out some of the work like taxes to a CPA, but they will be your goto point of contact.

Portland, Oregon • 73°F

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Tue, May 5, 2020 4:41pm -07:00
Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 https://twitter.com/alexisohanian

On so many board calls now where CEOs are highlighting how much more efficient their teams are Working From Home.

Portland, Oregon • 73°F

Tue, May 5, 2020 11:09pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, May 5, 2020 4:15pm -07:00)
Gmail https://twitter.com/gmail • May 5
Hi Aaron, thanks for reporting. This issue should now be fixed, but do let us know if you're still having trouble.

Okay, I deleted everything and started over, and now it's finally working again. Thanks for fixing it.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Tue, May 5, 2020 8:07am -07:00
Gmail https://twitter.com/gmail • May 5
Hi Aaron, thanks for reporting. This issue should now be fixed, but do let us know if you're still having trouble.

Update: This morning it now accepts my password, but when I go to send email, sending doesn't actually work. The draft email never disappears like it's been sent.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Tue, May 5, 2020 7:50am -07:00
sebomoto https://twitter.com/sebo • May 5
Just being curious: why do you want to use/ are using gmail in the first place? I know you for your expertise in indie web and the like.

Also remember indieweb is not all about self-hosting, it's about online identity ownership. If I own my domain, I can move providers, which is true of websites as well as email.

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, May 4, 2020 9:51pm -07:00
sebomoto https://twitter.com/sebo • May 5
Just being curious: why do you want to use/ are using gmail in the first place? I know you for your expertise in indie web and the like.

Fair question. Primarily: email != web, and the effort to self-host email is far greater than that of websites. Part of why I'm so frustrated with this situation is I had a good setup going where I am using my own domain as my email, it just happens to be powered by Gmail.

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, May 4, 2020 9:50pm -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • May 5
Hmm. What if you do ssl instead of tls over 465?

Same authentication failed message. I've tried every combination of TLS/SSL and port number in that list.

They made some breaking change this morning, and rolled it back, but apparently didn't roll it back far enough.

https://twitter.com/gmail/status/1257520623145947137

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 9:18pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • May 4
This is Gmail itself though. Also Mail.app now goes through the Google OAuth flow to set it up so it wouldn't even be testing the same thing. That's why I went and found an SMTP client in PHP and tried sending an email through that and it worked fine.

so that tells me it's a problem with @Gmail's SMTP client talking to Gmail's SMTP server

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, May 4, 2020 9:15pm -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • May 5
http://Mail.app lets you turn on verbose logging in connection doctor, not sure if this app does…

This is Gmail itself though. Also Mail.app now goes through the Google OAuth flow to set it up so it wouldn't even be testing the same thing. That's why I went and found an SMTP client in PHP and tried sending an email through that and it worked fine.

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 9:15pm -07:00
jk https://twitter.com/karabaic • May 5
Did you try changing the port to 465? 587 is supposedly for nonssl-only, but can be upgraded with a starttls command. It could they’re not accepting auth on 587 anymore because of some screwy thing around auth before the starttls.

465 + TLS results in "Couldn't reach server. Please double-check the server and port number."

587 + TLS from my PHP script works fine.

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 9:12pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://twitter.com/aaronpk • May 5
I'm still having trouble. This works when sending email from a script, but Gmail can't talk to Gmail's own SMTP servers right now using the same account info.

so far I have:

• changed my password
• reset my two-factor-auth
• deleted and re-added this account in Gmail
• tried every combination of TLS and port number

I can send email via SMTP from a small script, I just can't get Gmail to send via SMTP between accounts.

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, May 4, 2020 9:09pm -07:00
Joshua McKenty https://twitter.com/jmckenty • May 5
Are you seriously claiming that twitter invented social media?

Cause I was working full time in social media before twitter started. Or did I misunderstand you?

Depends on your definition of social media: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media#History

According to that, none of us were even alive at the origins of social media.

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 8:03pm -07:00
Derek Featherstone https://twitter.com/feather

I dunno who needs to hear this now, but for the LOVE OF THE WEB, will you please stop implementing JS/CSS that disable text selection on your site or app?

I know you probably think there's a good reason, but there just isn't.

Send your product managers my way. I'll fight them.

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

Tue, May 5, 2020 1:24am +00:00 (liked on Mon, May 4, 2020 7:58pm -07:00)
Joshua McKenty https://twitter.com/jmckenty • May 4
Social media was designed for folks to tell their friends what they were up to and what bands they like.

hey maybe listen to the guy who was literally there building it from the beginning?

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 7:55pm -07:00
rabble https://twitter.com/rabble • May 4
That's a very good question, it was still online when i looked a few years ago, but now i can't find it.

oddly the audio download link links to a URL that redirects to archive.org which then says it’s not found

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 7:54pm -07:00
rabble https://twitter.com/rabble

Social media ***was*** intentionally designed to give a voice to the voiceless in the absence of actual, functioning democracy. Capitalism reshaped it and took it away from its' original designs.

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

Mon, May 4, 2020 6:33pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, May 4, 2020 7:51pm -07:00)
Aaron Hockley https://twitter.com/ahockley

Writing a blog post about Flickr because apparently I live in 2008.

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

Tue, May 5, 2020 2:36am +00:00 (liked on Mon, May 4, 2020 7:40pm -07:00)
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • May 5
Is there a way to make FaceTime NOT ring on a Mac, but still have it logged in so I can place outgoing calls on it?

Phone calls too plz. When I get a call now, no less than five devices around me light up and make noises.

Portland, Oregon • 59°F

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Mon, May 4, 2020 7:26pm -07:00

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