Aaron Parecki

How QR codes are made:

Focusing on some OAuth 2.0 terminology

Auth is SO much to wrap your head around 🤯

Today’s XKCD is the perfect harbinger for the OAuth Happy Hour scheduled for this afternoon with @aaronpk - don’t miss it, or FOMO will consume you!
Usual place and time on YouTube ;) https://xkcd.com/2501/

... "languages and techniques never used before"...

https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for-linux-d59b19143a23

all i can say about 1password is that it gets my highest possible praise for a product, which is that i use it every day, it works perfectly, and i never need to think about it except when nerds get really upset about it online for whatever reason it is this time

Your morning update from my climate change arrival board.

it started as a virus but mutated into an IQ test

And if you don't think your product can be used for harassment, check with users!! You'd be SHOCKED how many ways various apps I use are used to target/harass me. @triketora and I share a bunch of real examples on this @ThePracticalDev podcast 🎧: https://dev.to/devteam/we-need-to-fix-anti-harassment-tooling-with-tracy-chou-and-chloe-condon-2b4j

The BazaCall campaigns forgo malicious links or attachments in favor of phone numbers that users are misled into calling. Call center agents instruct users to download BazarLoader. The lack of malicious elements challenges typical spam detection methods: https://msft.it/6016nWc3m

This article on the sense of betrayal that young people feel, at the moment when they discover how much of their private lives their parents have exposed to the world, is unforgettable. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/when-kids-realize-their-whole-life-already-online/582916/

.... wut

It's funny how the notion of an individual carbon footprint - a bit of nonsense dreamed up by fossil fuel companies to shift responsibility for climate change onto their own customers - has come back into vogue on adverts and stuff in the last year or so.

I am on day 2, getting hooked up with a dietician tomorrow to finish setup and help with some experiments! Already learned a lot, but this thing needs calibration- will share more details after one week of use :)

Live now on youtube with @kmikeym -
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