Aaron Parecki

By age 30 you should stop letting complete strangers with a twitter account prey on your vague feelings of inadequacy in order to sell you their get-rich-quick books full of useless tips that each fit in a tweet

Half of the design energy of any authoring product should be invested in making sure users can easily tell the search box from the new post textbox.

I had a very productive week at #ietf114! Got a ton of things done esp. in #OAuth WG - SD-JWT went to call for adoption, security BCP advanced, and @__b_c pushed DPoP forward. Looking forward to London in November!

No it ain’t. Universally, “100” has long been a round number used to convey there being an abundance of something. “40” has never been that. 40 Celsius means something to you, because you grew with that. To people who didn’t, it’s not a big enough number to signify anything.

IETF 114 reminded me how important the in person social hallway, bar and dinner conversations are to standards development.

They had this idea that talking publicly about security problems (in locks) is without value, dangerous, and inherently suspicious, and should be reserved for “official” members of their trade. I don’t agree with them about this.

I just learned that there's a coven of locksmiths STILL mad at me because of this paper I published twenty years ago. So let me repost it here.

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/mk.pdf

I remember a story about a person who had an absurd log file to parse, and it was too large to look at with any reasonable method, so they turned it into an audio file and listened to it. When the pattern changed dramatically, they went right to the distinct area.

I’ve read here and there about how autistic people aren’t able to recognise social hierarchies. Obviously I can’t speak for everyone, but in my experience it’s not that I haven’t been able to recognise them, it’s that I don’t respect them and I don’t care 🙃