Aaron Parecki

Message from the Ukrainian tax office: “Have you captured a Russian tank or armored personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland! There is no need to declare [them as income].” https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/804441.html

my favorite thing about airports is connecting to a random wifi network and giving it my credit card number. and just, like, hoping for the best

I'm always sad when I hear an indie company's acquired, especially when they're as successful and dearly-loved as Bandcamp is. Companies like those are so rare and an acquisition always brings uncertainty about the future: something indie artists already have more than enough of.

IT: "Here's a presentation on a tool to fix everything."
Me: "We own this functionality already in a tool you already have, who do you have assigned to run it?"
IT: "..."

Went on Facebook for the first time in 3 years, and everyone was either pregnant, in a pyramid scheme, or became a real estate agent.

I'm glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season

ok ..buckle up it’s called trillion because it’s short for electricity billion

I can't wait to go bowling again. Sharing shoes with a bunch of strangers? Sign me up. Touching old arcade game buttons? Yes please. Sticking my fingers in the same three holes as 1000 other people? I want to live again

Don’t act like TRRRRRRRS parallel ports didn’t exist.

We rebuilt our entire frontend for Crunchy Bridge from ground up, threw out SPA, all request response traditional now... velocity is better, product is more polished, quality is better. Not sure there was a downside.

Hi what sorry did you say travel i need travel I’ll go anywhere just want to travel ok let’s go

Although I still don’t like the name and the logo, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect are really valuable and important authentication protocols.

TIL about "solar canals". Place solar panels *over* existing water canals to (a) keep water from evaporating, (b) cool solar panels to make them more efficient, (c) prevent growth of weeds, etc. in canals.

We're thrilled to have our first IN PERSON event for our DSC Virginia chapter! 🤩🎉 Come join @aaronpk as he explores different ways multi-factor authentication can be hacked, and what you can do to protect your accounts!

Sign up here 👉🏼 https://www.devseccon.com/events/three-ways-to-hack-mfa/
#DSCVI @afitnerd

Imagine the default was that you had to give all seminars speaking through a cardboard tube, and you could pay $100 to remove the tube for the seminar. Would you do it?

And do you expect to give at least one zoom seminar before the pandemic is over?

Something tangentially related that I've been looking into is the indieweb movement. The idea is that you self publish what would be your tweets or w/e on your own site, and syndicate it to social media, taking control of your data away from corporate platforms.