Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

August 2011

ebidel 5 facts about localStorage: htmlui.com/blog/2011-08-2…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:47 PM, Aug 31st, 2011 via Echofon)

It was @arnaudbrousseau’s last day as an intern in the Google Hamburg office today. Up next: his Master’s thesis defense w/ @rtroncy & me.

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@rtroncy Ouch, I guess I have killed the server. It returned code 500 for the last few calls. Seems to have recovered now. Nice work!

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tcurdt better remove the DigiNotar root cert coriolis-systems.com/blog/2011/08/d…

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@jeffposnick Thanks! It’s indeed supported for the feed I need, as pointed out by @cramforce. Not very intuitive to find, tho, but legacy…

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@gkob Show her the [Shift] + Minimize button animation: youtube.com/watch?v=UKlsW9…. She’ll be sold immediately.

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Every time the YouTube API generates JSON w/ namespaces, a kitten gets slowly rolled over by a CAT multi terrain loader xml.catmms.com/servlet/ImageS…

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“I dont think it’s stupid at all. It’s too clever to work well in practice!” @cygri on the idea of providing context w/ Link header.

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I wonder why social image sharing apps/websites don’t offer search functionalities/APIs. Looking at you, @instagram, @picplz, &a@yfrogfrog. Why?

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Reuters FLASH: Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:39 AM, Aug 25th, 2011 via Echofon)

Nice realtime search engine 48ers.com (via @mahemoff). Seems heavily based on screenscraping, though: 48ers.com/search/?q=%2B%… (see HTML tags?)

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@Spotify I’m a Premium cust. (tomayac) w/ ES credit card, living in DE. Now Spotify thinks I’ve been traveling too long. Search’s down, too.

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Link headers, the mullet of the Web: business in the front, party in the back. Idea: serve , make it by a @context Link header.

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Registered for . See you in Bonn. Hint: hotel room rate is a joke. Book online (e.g., booking.com => 100€/night, instead of 127€).

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joedevon And here it is: “@Scobleizer: Facebook’s new privacy and sharing defenses (they are quite nice) tinyurl.com/3mcu2uw tip @Techmeme

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:50 PM, Aug 23rd, 2011 via Echofon)

@gklyne Yepp, this was clear indeed. Cheers, Tom

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JSON Emergency Brake lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi… => My (late) take on the serialization situation. //

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“Sometimes, if you stand in the right place and squint, and line up perfectly.” lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi… by @gklyne

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@edsu @cgutteridge Hearing you and thinking of next actions (personally speaking).

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We are pleased to inform you that your paper titled “Enriching Unstructured Media Content […]” has been accepted a11hD Yay!

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@Twitvid Follow-up question to twitter.com/tomayac/status… Is your search API really POST?! W/ GET, too, I only get error code 1014, upload failed.

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@Twitvid My request wrong, or your search API broken? >$ curl -X POST -d “query=boston&page=1&page_size=10&fim.twitvid.com/api/searcht.co/34y4bs2

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RT @romainst: @echofon I’ve paid both Mac and iPhone versions, how come I can’t use my bit.ly (pro) account anymore? // +1

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Had a moment w/o saying it. @alice_de tech support was PERFECT! Shibboleet bit.ly/adWAHD Shibboleth bit.ly/nx2grp

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@alice_de Just called the hotline. Frequency problem. New modem is on the way. Thanks!

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.@alice_de down in 20355 . Since 8/20 no more connection to :-( Anyone? Yepp, computer plugged in.

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Gkellogg Structured Data in HTML website launches, includes schema.org testing tool and examples in RDFa: http://ow.ly/67LXV

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printminion Making of - HTML5 Doodle for Google Developer Day 2011 in Beriln plus.google.com/10451246339853…

via Twitter for Websites (retweeted on 3:45 PM, Aug 20th, 2011 via Echofon)

RT @orlin: If doesn’t turn JSON into , I don’t know what will - the promise of semantics, unobtrusively for free.

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keeps fascinating me. Give it “[…] CTRL+F […]” and it gives you dbpedia.org/page/Table_of_… (@zemanta)

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@zazi__ Maybe it didn’t make it through some spam filter for stupid reasons(?). Try posting again.

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@grindcrank @hfmuehleisen Hoffentlich auf der für 1€ geschossenen eBay Couch?! Grüße nach Börlin!

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@seevl Cool! Looking good now :-) Thanks. Seevl is a great use case for . Right track!

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RT @seevl: About and Content-Negotiation wp.me/p1mTEJ-7bGjln // people, what do you think of JSON-LD? Useful?

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@seevl Syntax error in your ;-) (jsonlint.com) You could link to @manusporny’s playground: json-ld.org/playground/

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@RobVesse Makes sense. The Human Factor™ of the ( ) Web plays indeed a key role, IMHO.

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@RobVesse Out of curiosity: does this key argument fit in a tweet?

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portenkirchner speak.js: Text-To-Speech on the Web syntensity.com/static/espeak.…

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Reading @Hixie’s take on “Please explain the role of the in the continuing development of bit.ly/mQNSzK

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@wolframkriesing I used to live there and now my remote university is there… I’m in BCN every couple of months; metro is always stressful.

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Reading “How Browsers Work” by Tali Garsiel: html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/i…

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Submitted the summer school project of @maribelacosta, @sethvanhooland, @taubau & me as a demo paper2011.sPhD

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uberblic RT @TheNextWeb: Uberblic launches a ‘Rosetta Stone’ that lets multiple APIs work together for developers tnw.to/1AOam

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@rtroncy Oh, it’s your birthday? Congratulations! Hanging out with Elvis for beers tonight?

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@CaptSolo Seems like the EasyChair page does not expect abstracts only. Had to submit a dummy paper for now. Just sayin’…

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Submitted to . Thanks for the collaboration, @RubenVerborgh &a@mhausenblasblas! Fingers crossed now. // @rtroncyoncy

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@ldodds Well, agents in real shops do this & sell people Crays for browsing the Inet. I had a similar tiring experience w/ laser printers.

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Had to check the date first. Nope, it’s not April 1st. Google acquires Motorola: investor.google.com/releases/2011/…

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olyerickson Is Google+ big enough to handle a - related debate? edd.me/r7QONQ /via @edd @tomayac

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@olyerickson LOL :-) They call this a stress test…

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RT @edd: Excellent debate on the vs. debate developing on my Google+ right now edd.me/r7QONQ

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@manusporny Wow. This article seems quite badly researched… I was shaking my head reading it, but finally saw their update w/ your input.

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@kwelle Good luck with that! Same here, except that it’s instead of & that there’s no vacation après… 2011

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@wvandolleweerd @RubenVerborgh Fair enough. I guess I’ll change my .gitignore practice. Thanks for the arguments!

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@wvandolleweerd For my main use case (versioning files for papers), I don’t want to see changes in my .gitignore (as it’s static).

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You have to put .gitignore in your .gitignore file. The geek in me likes this.

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@dret Congratulations. Sounds like a great opportunity.

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tip for users courtesy of @RubenVerborgh: put .cls files in ~/Library/texmf/tex/, .bst files in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/

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@rtroncy @RubenVerborgh Of course! See this tweet ;-) http://bit.ly/o06Azb PS: never remember the upper/lower cases of DeRiVE.

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Submitted vision paper, integration workshop position paper &a2011 final paper > T2011 :D

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@fabien_gandon I fully agree. Hide your data model in the UI, focus on the user instead.

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“I think we people should stop thinking in terms of triple-based UIs & rather think in terms of objects@terracesaonLD +1

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thomasfuchs my stance on JS loading: 1 <script defer src=”concatenated.min.gzip.js”></script> just before </body> ends. fastest and simplest solution.

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Registered for , submitted camera-ready version of our paper 1. @RubenVerborgh to submit our paper 2. Also there: @hfmuehleisen.

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now use Natural Language Processing to link posts: zd.net/qAcphN (via @eturner303). Did they see http://bit.ly/kYcd8i ?

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RT @mamund: > I love the smell of in the morning; it smells like… VictoryTOD - http://j.mp/nT2bgv // +1

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@maximetiran Yepp, it’s a cool demo (saw it a while ago). I’m working on bringing some Linked Data to video :-)

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RT @mhausenblas: Congrats, ericP - http://www.w3.org/TR/tur… - Turtle is now a FPWD //

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Back from my vacation. 1st legal act: fixed the Twitter Whom to follow Chrome extension :-) Cheers, @jouhanallende. http://bit.ly/gQ2hZU

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