Aaron Parecki

what's actually going on in the "web 3" thread is dreaming up new ways to get people to rent stuff but pretending that they own it

it's kind of a new spin on the "sharing economy", where we pretend people own their labour but actually big platform companies do

"we will redistribute power by inventing new property rights that you buy with fake internet money" is definitely a sensible proposal

so for folks who think there isn't "any real use case beyond speculation," the reason to get on board is that "fortunes are being made"?

I was thinking that earlier today - I've seen plenty of technology come and go, and there are boosters and there are skeptics, but I can't remember anything before where one side said it was the future of everything and the other side saw it as an absolutely value-less grift

In my career so far, I cannot think of any tech that is 10% as polarizing as blockchain/cryptocurrency/NFT. So much investment and activity. So many doubters (me included.) This rift feels like a big deal.

This is the problem with most JWT based systems around logout and revocation. I find this to be an anti-pattern and a very common one. Security here is sacrificed at the altar of scalability and statelessness. #tears

If a user “logs out” and the JWT isn’t invalidated they can still perform actions. Most distributed apps don’t notify all micro services a JWT is no longer valid and the micro service just goes “okay”. And for performance, the micro service doesn’t verify validity.

Slack is just an all day meeting with no agenda

wish i was bitcoin so someone would hold me

wish I was a deadline so someone would miss me

OH on Discord: “Hey, what is the minimum USD amount for an OAuth transfer”

(which is a mind-blowing concept if you’ve been around the protocol as long as I have)

You know you could have just implemented edit and deployed it in an afternoon back in 2007 and we’d all have it today. I blame @blaine for the lack of the edit button.

Check twice a day, filter aggressively, only answer things that need an answer, try and keep replies under three sentences.

okay so as some people don't seem to know this is happening:

when someone replies to one of your posts asking you for your paypal / venmo / etc, there are bots that will IMMEDIATELY clone your account and reply with a payment link. they block your account in the same second.

My @vidsummit talk is ready to goooo! But I have a question for attendees....
Is your Wi-Fi on? 🍍🍍🍍