Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

February 2014

TomDeNies @RubenVerborgh defending his PhD at the aula in Ghent. The crown on 3,5 years of research! Congrats! pic.twitter.com/UWBxGgQtOU

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:49 PM, Feb 28th, 2014 via Echofon)

@void_0 Great! While my MacBook Pro had forgotten my screen setup immediately after the update, it worked fine ever since, incl. reboots.

via Echofon in reply to void_0

RubenVerborgh My PhD “Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia” is now available online! ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2014/02/2…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 1:01 PM, Feb 28th, 2014 via Echofon)

~RT @RubenVerborgh: Glad that I crossed paths w/ @tomayac & @sethvanhooland […twitter.com/RubenVerborgh/…hz Couldn’t agree more, friends+research

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Started incorporating @JSHint commit hooks into my Git workflow, following a best practice of @RubenVerborgh github.com/LinkedDataFrag…

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Addendum to my prev. tweet twitter.com/tomayac/status…: 2/28—PhD defense day!—also happens to b@RubenVerborghgh’s birthday! Gelukkige verjaardag!

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Today’s the day of @RubenVerborgh’s defense! Wishing you all the best, cand. Ph.D. Verborgh! facebook.com/events/1392965… (req. FB login)

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@HeidiTworek Hi Heidi, happened to catch your tweet… Apparently things’re going well for you in Harvarscholar.harvard.edu/heiditworek/bi…5X Congrats! Tom

via Echofon in reply to HeidiTworek

@void_0 Same here. Thought someone had messed with my marked screen cables, but it’s indeed a bug in 10.9.2.

via Echofon in reply to void_0

Today’s is truly genius: c.xkcd.com/redirect/comic… Make sure to bookmark this URL, it always points to the correctly rotated version.

via Echofon

Newsweek Half of all edits to Wikipedia are made by bots — and that’s a good thingj.mp/1c6aVSd9pic.twitter.com/DTeColuKTKK

via Sprout Social (retweeted on 9:06 AM, Feb 26th, 2014 via Echofon)

seen via obviously dominates Twitter w/ 10.9.2 & 7.0.6 finally released. twitpic.com/dwnj91

via Echofon

brucel “Nothing terrifies me more than an app … in desperate pursuit of revenue w. full access to everything on my phonecodinghorror.com/blog/2014/02/a…Qq

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:24 AM, Feb 25th, 2014 via Echofon)

The ! program makes interesting datasets for non-commercial use available: webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/index.php

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RT @somebitsLinks: Apple’s SSL bug: Simple typo; bad thing is no code review nor testing caught it dlvr.it/505tpd // if (cond) {…}

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‘use strict’;—Improvet by enforcing strict rules. One of the better articles on the subject:webdesignporto.com/why-use-strict…Y

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WikiLiveMon Candidate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp [Edits: 13, Editors: 8, Langs: 5, Stories: twitter.com/Bsnoticiascr/s…, twitter.com/kummerani/stat…]

via Wikipedia Live Monitor (retweeted on 11:29 PM, Feb 19th, 2014 via Echofon)

The bot @mediagalleries is back—it posts media galleries auto-generated for@WikiLiveMonns candidates. It was down due to a bug…

via Echofon

Hijacked plane story. Twitter custom timeline via @chabotc twitter.com/smfrogers/time…. Media gallery via twitpic.com/dvtoyn

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RubenVerborgh In , you don’t just do.
You always try, then catch—knowing you’ll never catch anything.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 2:39 AM, Feb 17th, 2014 via Echofon)

—Get Accepted or Die Tryin’… Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data // C@hfmuehleisense@RubenVerborghrg@pchampinpi@benoit_encellell@yprierie

via Echofon

hfmuehleisen Breaking news picture galleries based on edits as @Twitter feed: @mediagalleries by @tomayac!

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:59 PM, Feb 14th, 2014 via Echofon)

From commoncrawl.org/our-work/ of @CommonCrawl: “We strive to be transparent in all of our operations.”—Any info on the crawl strategy? Vague…

via Echofon

@rtroncy @silviapfeiffer Not a single one… We’re working on a paper at the moment.

via Echofon in reply to rtroncy

@silviapfeiffer .srt: 390; & dynamic stuff that may be (/includes/assets/vtt/?f=/2013/CLIP_JBU_LR/) or not (/videos/1095/captions).

via Echofon in reply to silviapfeiffer

Of the 1,456 <track> (twitter.com/tomayac/status…), distrib. of src attrib: matches /.(web)?vtt$/i: 66, other: 1390. @silviapfeiffer

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Of the 1,456 <track> (twitter.com/tomayac/status…), distrib. of kind: captions: 915, subtitles: 525, chapters: 2, (rest invalid). @silviapfeiffer

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Stats from @hfmuehleisen’s & my recent @CommonCrawl analysis on the Winter 2013 dataset: <video>: 2,963,766; out of which w/ <track>: 1,456.

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techreview The Shadowy World Of Wikipedia’s Editing Bots techre.vu/1gyCwJ7

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 5:20 PM, Feb 13th, 2014 via Echofon)

GeppettoAvatars Wikidata’s editing bots are now not just editing but also authoring. technologyreview.com/view/524751/th… Watch it happening here: wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:40 PM, Feb 13th, 2014 via Echofon)

Bugs that bite-X Finder lets you create file names with a ‘/’reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-2…f. Still banging my head.orNIX

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An interesting photo gallery layout algorithm used over at @YahooTech described in detail here: yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/763249052… (CC: @Vjeux)

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support is incredibly bad: a character’s more than a-zA-Z in the age of . github.com/slevithan/xreg… to the rescue.

via Echofon

WxAnalyst Wikipedia Live Monitor going too fast for me to keep up; it’s as if there’s some major sporting event happening or something.

via Hootsuite (retweeted on 3:49 PM, Feb 12th, 2014 via Echofon)

@seenco Merci! Just realized that maybe the app isn’t UTF8-enabled?! Tried , but seen.co/search/%25D0%2… searches for #2014 instead.

via Echofon in reply to seenco

mstrohm Social Curation in Pinterest: Specialization, Homophily, and Gender: grouplens.org/social-curatio…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:29 PM, Feb 8th, 2014 via Echofon)

TwitterData : Оцените самые популярные олимпийские фотографии в Твиттере
twitter.github.io/interactive/so… pic.twitter.com/uwuEI19r1V

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:26 PM, Feb 8th, 2014 via Echofon)

Watching the on a (still) private @WikiLiveMon build, like, literally :-) twitter.com/WikiLiveMon/st… twitpic.com/duvstr

via Echofon

sw12 Search 400+ Chrome developer videos – now with clickable, human-readable transcriptssimpl.info/searchqu

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:46 AM, Feb 8th, 2014 via Echofon)

@StuartJRitchie @JohnRentoul Already exists: bit.ly/xkcd37, then add a rule to replace “Which books have you read” :-) De rien.

via Echofon in reply to StuartJRitchie

JohnRentoul Joy. My “Whom to follow” Chrome extension works on the new Twitter design chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… Thx @tomayac pic.twitter.com/tVg8B23QhI

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:39 PM, Feb 7th, 2014 via Echofon)

changing their logo apparently is social media news-worthy :-) (via ) twitpic.com/dupo43

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@mstrohm @ph_singer Great paper (RT’ed y’day already)! For arXiv, you should add the DOI (PDF in email “IW3C2 Copyright Release Form […]”).

via Echofon in reply to mstrohm

cramforce Not so subtle Google Doodle google.com

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 12:57 PM, Feb 7th, 2014 via Echofon)

sklaporte @ReaderMeter Introducing the Wikimedia Data Grants Program: Congratulations, you are accepted, here you go: dumps.wikimedia.org

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:45 PM, Feb 7th, 2014 via Echofon)

@rtroncy Right in the link—“GitHub warns you when you push a file larger than 50MB. We’ll reject pushes containing files larger than 100MB.”

via Echofon in reply to rtroncy

tip: had committed a file too large for @github some local commits ago. Mess :-( BFG Repo-Cleaner to the rescue help.github.com/articles/worki…

via Echofon

ph_singer Preprint of our paper about Reddit’s evolution (out- vs. self-reference) is online: philippsinger.info/2014_www2014_w…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:01 PM, Feb 6th, 2014 via Echofon)

@seenco Use the pushState API developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web… to switch between All/Photos/Tweets on Seen pages. Let me link to each section. Merci!

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@seenco Small typo on api.seen.co “When relevant and treDNing topics are detected”

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wsREST We’ve just sent out notification for ws-rest.org/2014/accepted-… Congrats, looking forward to seeing you all! @WWW2014_Korea

via Echofon (retweeted on 6:24 PM, Feb 5th, 2014 via Echofon)

wsREST We’re collecting last reviews & hope to be sending out notifications on Feb. 5. Thanks to all reviewers for their detailed reviews!

via Echofon (retweeted on 9:30 PM, Feb 4th, 2014 via Echofon)

abursuc Insider advice for getting a job at Google for PhD students matt-welsh.blogspot.fr/2014/01/gettin…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:57 PM, Feb 4th, 2014 via Echofon)

@LeonDerczynski Thx. Tweets work fine for months now, only permanent archiving in a Google Group didn’t find the placet of G’s abuse filter…

via Echofon in reply to LeonDerczynski

Amazing to what extent is dominated by 2nd-screens, here depicted by for “Auf ewig Dein”. @Tatort twitpic.com/duf8zk

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My Track poster “Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins” pre-published on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/1402.0412 @WikiResearch

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somebitsLinks Yahoo building search?: Rumors of early projects dlvr.it/4qhYwF

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 6:53 PM, Feb 1st, 2014 via Echofon)

@tkurz Thanks for your URI parser! Great :-) Tiny remark: s/regional/spatial/i because w3.org/2008/WebVideo/… @rtroncy

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