Aaron Parecki

tl;dr:

Win by doing these things with Gen X:

1) Say "Do it your way"
2) Use well-written emails
3) Say "I got it!"
4) Focus on the mission w/ them
5) Allow life balance
6) Bond as people
7) Be direct
8) Acknowledge they exist
9) Expect pessimism
10) Expect work-life separation

like the biggest problem is that mastodon is twitter but open source, so you have all of the same problems twitter has, but with the bonuses of everything being split across a billion unstable shards each with their own unique quirks/features/bugs

Modem sounds.

Forums, there's still some but I learned so much from random forums.

How novel and new and exciting it all felt. "OMG I'm talking to someone who lives in Brazil about Douglas Adams, this is so cool!"

It's amazing how much development, how many startups, and how much funding is going into rebuilding Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver as a web app. (Gutenberg included.)

One year ago I started an experiment. I moved my live YouTube shows to a whole new channel, on the theory that the live shows on the main channel, which get great views while live but then very poor views after (which is understandable), were hurting the main channel. 1/🧵

I know "Layered Semantic Markup" is like 2 decades out of date as the new hotness now, but IMO it's still the best way to build websites. Build something workable in plain old HTML with form posts and stuff. Add JS to improve functionality. Add CSS to make it stylish and pretty.

the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.

man what’s the point of “we’re putting ourselves on THE BLOCKCHAIN” as an april fools joke. it’s obviously a fucking joke the other 364 days of the year too