Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

February 2015

RT @cygri: The girlfriend translated English “toaster” to German “Brotheizung”. I’d say she gets the principle of the language!

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wjarek App vs applet, now vs then pic.twitter.com/3GZdHrxJLH

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aaranged Search Engine Optimization with Data - bit.ly/seowithdata My presentation, hot off the presses!

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RT @paul_irish: Want to resolve your console logs to their original file:line instead of your log() wrapper? ➟ http://t.co/B5U7764xLV http:…

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~RT @miha_jlo: List of TargetAd 2014 accepted papers is now posted: targetad-workshop.net/accepted-papers // One of them’s mine. Oh, and s/4/5 :-)

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michellequinn Whoa. The plans for a Google building that looks outward bayareane.ws/1vGBeb0 pic.twitter.com/HRuWTukNuj

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RT @mattcutts: Really happy to see Google reverse policy on Blogger: https://t.co/BGbsgWq8KU cc @violetblue @jeffjarvis @mmasnick Thanks fo…

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Sans Bullshit Sans: OpenType ligature font hack that replaces bullshit terms with bullshit ligatures: http://t.co/WWNxE9kQbb (via @brucel)

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wsREST We have finally sent out notifications for WS-REST. Apologies for the delay. Congratulations to all authors and thank you to all reviewers.

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SoVeryBritish Not hearing someone for the third time, so just laughing and hoping for the best

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Great list of the CSS tricks used at Medium to get their #typography right: https://t.co/h21P0ACWrO

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@arkaitz This post https://t.co/7EjEe3igwz is what I found. Then a bit later this https://t.co/ZgtU5rw9t4.

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Oscars 2015 on Twitter: Identifying Trending Topics: https://t.co/EdhHlce8BJ

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@wolframkriesing I see. Read your question differently. Clear now. Decorator it is then.

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@wolframkriesing I tend to use

DEBUG && debugger.log(‘foo’);

One flag to turn it off, separate function with custom formatting logic…

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parserlibrarian @txkuhn And also this - Bots vs. Wikipedians: wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com

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Good article on Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers: http://t.co/kyVvNIGPQ7 (via @prototypo)

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SoVeryBritish “I might join you in a bit”
<turns phone to silent and puts on pyjamas>

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Update on the @fbase→@wikidata migration: @vrandezo prepares the data, @SSchaffert works on the back-end API & I on a front-end user script…

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RT @TextRazor: New on the blog - Freebase is migrating to WikiData, what does this mean for my app? https://t.co/7jArjyphxy #LinkedData

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@RubenVerborgh Oh? Keep us posted! Any pointers to early concrete usage plans?

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igrigorik HTTP/2 is done: bit.ly/1AjHFzJ - hooray! Time to undo all of those HTTP/1 hacks: bit.ly/1MvZdiw pic.twitter.com/a3HN7AMoyo

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Microsoft @levie Thank you. Comic Sans is still fair game, though.

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RT @ReaderMeter: The most frequently clicked links in Wikipedia articles, aggregated from 4bn requests http://t.co/j4F1ldOx7g #bigdata http…

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BOINC-inspired (boinc.berkeley.edu) distributed computing framework BoomerangJS by @bergi_bergos: boomerangjs.org

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@brucel @pomeh @andreasbovens Reminds me of @spolsky’s 2004(!) post http://t.co/nR1NUbyn7Z (search for “SimCity”)…

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@brucel @andreasbovens Will try to find the right contact to address this internally. Thanks for the friendly console message ;-)

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Pretty sad: @Opera maintain a patch script that fixes webpages to work w/ their browser https://t.co/fQkImmeRFO (via @andreasbovens @brucel)

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Guha’s ideas for new #SchemaOrg extension mechanism http://t.co/9gc0QjW12w (mailing list) https://t.co/DkMT5o9uDD (Google doc)

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RT @dalmaer: “What’s the wifi password?” https://t.co/bl9DUPCTZA

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@alexmilowski Thank you. Read them w/ interest. Cheers!

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@alexmilowski Do you share the slides?

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@nicolastorzec Do it locally. My lib https://t.co/cn6WNhmSvb is the other way round (reverse), but maybe can build on top? Mileage may vary.

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@Paul_Kinlan One of the most honest and most useful postmortems I have read so far. Huge props for writing it!

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RT @Paul_Kinlan: What happened to Web Intents?

http://t.co/JTWWjD62X3 - **my personal** recollection and thoughts only 3 years late http:/…

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RT @russellsavage: For anyone spending too much time Bulk Uploading in AdWords, check out this AdWords Script to automate things #SEL http:…

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In Windows, there’s a registry key that substitutes Helvetica to Arial https://t.co/IJsFX8RmEs Crying. (via @snookca http://t.co/Ep7lb57iUB)

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~RT @aaranged: [Some] dynamically added meta data indexed by Google crawlers: bit.ly/1Eb3DFz // Love the spirit, @SimoAhava!

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Review night. , , & . @eswc_conf, first time I see the reviews “PC Member” field being anonymized. Quite like it.

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@Enroweb Haha, your editing experiment caused a breaking news alert of my system: http://t.co/e6ucMs6qI7.

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Wow, this is meta on so many levels: https://t.co/LzpGPnjR1h. Not breaking news, but fun… CC: @WikiResearch http://t.co/9lkSJeLBI1

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winsontang Joyent Waves A White Flag, Hands Off Node.js To A New Foundation bit.ly/16PFGbE

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@dret @mnot My favorite part of the JSON-LD spec probably is 6.8: http://t.co/nOFVEawdcc.

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WikiResearch “Disaster Monitoring w Wikipedia&Online Social Networking Sites:Structured Data&Linked Data Fragments to the Rescue?” arxiv.org/abs/1501.06329

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RT @RubenVerborgh: #DBpedia’s Triple Pattern Fragments— start building apps! Slides: http://t.co/SasDWTCExk Get started: https://t.co/h8N9f…

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@MaoriHH These editors enable something like @WikiLiveMon ;-)

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RT @ndiakopoulos: On Tinder Bots: “it worked too well … and I’m still seeing one person” http://t.co/Qy1qSUDZv2 via @arnicas

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@dret @PERRY_RHODAN I wish I would have had the time to explore Dubai. A shame it was just a stopover…

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RT @googledrive: Happy Safer Internet Day. Be #SafeOnline with a 2-minute Security Checkup and we’ll say thanks with a 2GB bonus. http://t.…

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@dret Saw it from the plane. So. Freaking. Unreal. https://t.co/7lWKKuQ038

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TwitterIR To clarify from yesterday’s call: there was no bug or issue with iOS 8. It is an issue on Twitter’s side as users upgraded.

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Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY: http://t.co/JL9E3FJRpX. Check the HTTP/2 doc by Mozillian @bagder: http://t.co/feGhAzerOc [PDF]

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.@MikeElgan is creating a #BreakingNews community on G+ https://t.co/LA9m1KpyuY. J. Chung intro’ed my work on @WikiLiveMon, @mediagalleries.

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Huge collection of free programming books: https://t.co/sOULlPZnBB (via @csarasuagar)

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@kerfors 2) Then check the discussion plus links here: http://t.co/XVZq4zDr31.

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@kerfors 1) Check the G+ post from my orig. tweet plus (some of) the comments (on the G+ post) & the discussion here https://t.co/DuVt9BVqKC

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Brief reminder on how you can specify your social profiles using structured mark-up: https://t.co/qU4X5Tmtxa

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@hexmode @wikiworks 20% projects are alive & kicking, albeit for some they’re 120% projects and processes may be stricter [citation needed].

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RT @cramforce: Be good at debugging.
Never be blocked.
Know when to do redundant work or build a tool.
Be good at reading code.
https://t.c…

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That moment where you wish you had put “screen -R” in your .bash_profile… http://t.co/YVPJO5Di2x and http://t.co/B7FQg5wnfh

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@lmatteis Thanks. I guess for the persisting URLs (or not), @fbase and/or @narphorium and @vrandezo are you go-to contacts.

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@edsu Summers, pardon the missing ‘s’ :-)

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@edsu Congratulations. Here’s to the coming years of interesting publications and software out of the feather of cand. Ph.D. Summer :-)

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RT @mahemoff: A conversation about why JavaScript ecosystem changes so quickly and where it’s going.
https://t.co/IxMVw4k7u3 http://t.co/Rx…

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Wikidata: <subject> \t <predicate> \t <object> # [ <qualifier-property> \t <qualifier-value> ] * @ [ <source-property> \t <source-value> ] *

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Turns out working on the Freebase→Wikidata transfer tool (https://t.co/NPDuoB0yG3) is my new 20% project at Google. Excited!

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TechCrunch YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment tcrn.ch/1zAO4WW by @fredericl

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RT @JeffD: The largest release of Freebase annotated data from @googleresearch, FAKBA1 - http://t.co/eJ0mObN2hh. My thoughts: http://t.co/Z…

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SoundScript: V8 JavaScript speed mode adds ‘use stricter’ & ‘use stricter+types’: https://t.co/4kfQ8tORjI, @rauschma: http://t.co/Df5xSy7i3y

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@maxlath @nicolastorzec @43ryn Thanks. I was mostly highlighting the confusing names (also see the update in the article). Aware of µBlock…

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There’s AdBlock Plus http://t.co/3OV21CU6tu and there’s AdBlock https://t.co/cAQLzVurSk (story via @nicolastorzec)

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Google Earth Pro has gone free: http://t.co/ReG4tFvWx3. Enjoy!

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wsREST It sure looks like today’s was made for WS-REST: xkcd.com/1481/

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RT @WikiResearch: “Analysing Trends Between US Google Searches and English Wikipedia Page Edits” https://t.co/sxf9F7Iazc (student course pa…

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RT @theopolisme: Visualizing Wikipedia contributions by location https://t.co/nPBAq6e9He

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wsREST APIs.json: apisjson.org. community, 3, 2, 1, fight :-)

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wsREST Alright, the submission deadline is officially over now and we’ll close EasyChair later today. Thanks for the submissions. Thanks reviewers!

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