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  • Aaron Parecki
    I just finished downloading my whole Flickr account to a static website. Now browsing around it is much faster than looking at the same photos on Flickr, and it makes me want to get back to actually organizing my photos again!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 61°F
    8 likes 1 repost 8 replies
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 9:54am -07:00 #flickr #photos
  • Aaron Parecki
    The cost of buying a new iPhone every 2 years is the same as the cost of taking 5 pictures a day on 35mm film. Therefore, if you take more than 5 pictures a day with your iPhone, you come out ahead.

    This tweet is brought to you by me finding a box full of old negatives.
    Portland, Oregon • 57°F
    35 likes 4 reposts 3 replies
    Tue, Jan 12, 2021 6:42pm -08:00 #photos #iphone
  • Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/

    IndieWebCamp NYC 2019 photos and some lessons learned

    Portland, Oregon • 61°F
    Tue, Oct 15, 2019 2:03pm -04:00 (liked on Tue, Oct 15, 2019 2:20pm -07:00) #IndieWeb #NYC #IWCNYC2019 #photos #lessons
  • Aaron Parecki
    ugh I am like 4 months behind on sorting photos out of my SD cards into their permanent home and I really think I need to do that before my next round of trips but it just sounds like a lot of work! 😭
    Portland, Oregon • 73°F
    1 reply
    Wed, Sep 4, 2019 2:17pm -07:00 #photos
  • css3 - Is is possible to implement a Flickr-like justified gallery in pure CSS? - Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
    Tue, Mar 6, 2018 7:45am -08:00 #css #photoalbum #justified #layout #photos
  • Barnaby Walters https://waterpigs.co.uk

    The old Fitbit and Fuelband which Aaron Parecki gave me a few years ago (thanks Aaron!) don’t hold a charge anymore. The Fitbit battery is near impossible to replace, and with the Fuelband I decided that as there’s no way of loading custom firmware (which would let me get at data without an internet connection and proprietary apps), it wasn’t worth trying to get replacement batteries. So before throwing the devices away, I took them apart.

    I didn’t find out much which I hadn’t already seen in teardowns, but these devices have such strange form factors that it was fascinating to see the engineering up close.

    The rubber coating comes off very cleanly. Here you can see some of the funny curved traces used on flexible circuit boards:

    The LED array, with ā€œJust Do Itā€ written on the top of the PCB (invisible to the end user). On the sections of flex between the more solid boards you can see the unbelievably fine traces:

    On the back of the LED matrix section, with a part number. To the right you can see the jaggedy bluetooth antenna trace:

    The fitbit isn’t so interesting. Removing the cap with a heatgun reveals a tiny circuit board with a tiny battery and vibrating element.

    I also opened up the dock, as I noticed that the USB cable was power only, with no possibility of wired data transfer. The third pogo pin must be for the reset switch, which is mounted in the dock. There’s a little IC in there too, but I was more interested in seeing how the pogo pins were attached to the board. Turns out they’re just soldered straight on:

    I’d love to have been able to flash custom firmware to the Fuelband, it’s a lovely bit of hardware, and manufacturing something like that is completely out of the question for a hobbyist. There are so many fun things which could be done with a device equipped with an LED matrix, accelerometers and bluetooth — a wearable MIDI controller, for example.

    That possibility would also have made replacing the batteries worth doing, and in doing so saved the device from the landfill. Free software and open hardware isn’t just political, it’s better for the environment.

    Portland, Oregon
    Fri, Mar 24, 2017 11:22pm +03:00 (liked on Fri, Mar 24, 2017 1:31pm -07:00) #photo #photos #teardown #electronics #fuelband #fitbit
  • Aaron Parecki
    Finally rigged up my system for archiving all my iPhone and DSLR photos on Flickr! Through a convoluted path involving Dropbox, a Synology NAS, and Eyefi card, and a lot of code to properly handle time zones and GPS data it's up and running!
    Portland, Oregon
    10 likes 1 reply
    Sat, Jul 16, 2016 10:54pm -07:00 #photos #eyefi #dropbox #synology #sync #gps #flickr
  • Vjeux » Image Layout Algorithm – Google Plus (blog.vjeux.com)
    Tue, May 10, 2016 1:35am +02:00 #flickr #photos #layout #javascript #justified
  • flickr/justified-layout at gh-pages (github.com)
    Tue, May 10, 2016 1:35am +02:00 #flickr #photos #layout #javascript #justified
  • Flickr ‘Justified’ Layout in JQuery – Wackylabs.net (www.wackylabs.net)
    Tue, May 10, 2016 1:34am +02:00 #flickr #photos #layout #javascript #justified
  • Our Justified Layout Goes Open Source | code.flickr.com (code.flickr.net)
    Tue, May 10, 2016 1:34am +02:00 #flickr #photos #layout #css #justified
  • IndieWebCamp Germany 2015 (www.flickr.com)
    Tue, May 19, 2015 8:18am -07:00 #photos #indiewebcamp
  • 130/365: Demo time at IndieWebCamp. Aaron Parecki went first.130/365: Demo time at IndieWebCamp. Aaron Parecki went first. May 10th 2015 #photos #365 #indiewebcamp #IndieWeb Exchangeable Image File Format: iPhone 5 » 4mm » 1/60th @ f/2.4 ISO Film Speed 64 License: Creative Commons Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.-NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. 4.0

    Sun, May 10, 2015 4:42pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, May 10, 2015 5:19pm +02:00) #photos #365 #indiewebcamp #IndieWeb
  • Category:Portland Uber protest, January 2015 - Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)

    A bunch of my photos were uploaded by someone to Wikimedia Commons!

    Thu, Jan 22, 2015 3:36pm -08:00 #photos #uber
  • Why is Flickstagram more successful in non-English languages?

    Flickstagram, a service which will export your Instagram photos to Flickr, has had far more users in non-English speaking countries, and has also appeared in more non-English blogs than English ones.
    continue reading...
    Wed, Jan 2, 2013 7:56pm -08:00 #flickstagram #flickr #instagram #photos #internationalization
  • Aaron Parecki
    Watching the photos roll in from http://flickstagram.org! 36,000 and climbing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/uploaded%3Aby%3Dflickstagram/
    Portland, OR, USA
    Sun, Dec 23, 2012 11:01am -08:00 #flickstagram #flickr #instagram #photos
  • Tire Tracks on Mars

    I found these images in the RSS feed of new images from the Curiosity Rover this morning!
    continue reading...
    Wed, Aug 22, 2012 12:30pm -07:00 #photos #mars #space
  • How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (gizmodo.com)
    Tue, May 15, 2012 3:09pm -07:00 #flickr #indieweb #photos #yahoo
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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