Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

April 2015

.@tfmorris We started w/ a tiny set of 2K facts (tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-prima…) & will release more data gradually. CC: @vrandezo @SSchaffert

via Echofon in reply to tfmorris

Hacked the CSS of my state-of-the-art of 2005 homebrew PHP-powered blog (blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date…) until it got green: google.com/webmasters/too…

via Twitter Web Client

nelson Figured out Cyberduck was part of what broke my Mac’s SSL. nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/cyb… /cc @bugabuga @jenlampton @juliansimioni

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 10:40 PM, Apr 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

.@doubleclick are bringing promoted tweets to DoubleClick across mobile & desktop goo.gl/s2QUBF. It’s all & .

via Echofon

MediterraneaJS Wonder what really means? Here’s a preview. Join us for in June. mediterraneajs.eu/#schedule pic.twitter.com/G14sdxPela

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 4:35 PM, Apr 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

thespite This is absurdly fun: HTML5 Speech Jammer (for Chrome and Firefox) clicktorelease.com/code/speech-ja… pic.twitter.com/XyleTX8CQb

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:48 PM, Apr 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

@hemant_pt @tinacomes Check out some of @mediagalleries’ recent tweets on , eg, twitter.com/mediagalleries…. Archiving them all.

via Echofon

miha_jlo TargetAd 2015 schedule is out targetad-workshop.net/program
All-star lineup of ad targeting experts from Yahoo, Google, Facebook,Twitter, Pitnerest

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:03 PM, Apr 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

@WikiResearch @imageclef LOL’ing at the Catalan comments in red…

via Echofon in reply to WikiResearch

nicolastorzec Lars Rasmussen (i.e. Where2, Google Maps, Google Wave, Facebook Graph Search, Facebook @ Work) is leaving Facebook: techcrunch.com/2015/04/27/ras…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:42 PM, Apr 27th, 2015 via Echofon)

@tfmorris Touché, sorry. Forgot to update the thread, but tweeted about the release off-thread. Hope you find the tool useful.

via Echofon in reply to tfmorris

folks, I’m toying w/ OpenCV object recognition & Haar classifiers. Are there repos of classifiers other than for body parts?

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New en-Wikipedia dataset: datahub.io/dataset/englis…. Pageviews at 1s resolution, Mar 16 to Apr 25, grouped by mobile/desktop.

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Flywheel: Google’s Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web research.google.com/pubs/pub43447.…

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Update on twitter.com/tomayac/status…: now using “Added via [[Wikidata:Primary sources tool]]” as advised by ricordisamoa github.com/google/primary…

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sdivad Slides of my talk at on contropedia.net “Societal Controversies in Wikipedia Articles” slideshare.net/sdivad/chi-201…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:56 PM, Apr 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

All changes made by the @fbase→@wikidata migration tool will now be tagged w/ “Added via github.com/google/primary…”. pic.twitter.com/fjX1XzWUi3

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Source URL blacklist in @fbase→@wikidata migration tool’s live now github.com/google/primary…. Add low-quality URLs to wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:….

via Twitter Web Client

@RubenVerborgh Thanks, had to try myself ;-) It failed even earlier: Unsupported operator: NOTEXISTS: client.wikidataldf.com/#startFragment…

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

@RubenVerborgh Just read this, too. Did you compare actual runtimes of pure SPARQL vs. Linked Data Fragments?

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

sw12 Love the ‘pro’ version of JSONLint – and despite the name, it’s free!pro.jsonlint.comGP

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:15 PM, Apr 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

Ironed out the cache-related bug in the fbase→@wikidata migration tool github.com/google/primary…. Thanks @nightrose for the &revision pointer!

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Gkellogg Implementing CSV on the Web | Gregg Kellogg

A walkthrough of the Ruby implementation for / greggkellogg.net/2015/04/implem…

via OS X (retweeted on 8:54 AM, Apr 19th, 2015 via Echofon)

@AmrapaliZ Wow, congratulations and all the best!!! What’s up next? Staying in Leipzig?

via Echofon in reply to AmrapaliZ

mahemoff Interesting and dangerous tool to autocorrect command-line typos + entertaining issue tracker
github.com/nvbn/thefuck pic.twitter.com/jsIItUgrHQ

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:10 PM, Apr 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

Understanding the real advantages of using ESLint: rangle.io/blog/understan… Not sure if for style it’s superior to jscr, but will try.

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Amazing work: (re)introducing eSpeak.js—pure client-side 2015-JavaScript speech synthesis:blog.monotonous.org/2015/04/14/rei…d

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nelson This analysis of Twitter’s API and business strategy is really excellent reading. stratechery.com/2015/twitter-m…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 7:32 PM, Apr 18th, 2015 via Twitter Lite)

@presroi @MagnusManske @pavel Looks like you found a working solution already. @wiki_los is a good start :-) Maybe even auto-create stubs?

via Echofon in reply to presroi

srchvrs Life is too short for “this paper is organized as follows”.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:08 PM, Apr 17th, 2015 via Echofon)

You can now let Google & other schema.org consumers know a preferred website name for friendlier SERPs: developers.google.com/structured-dat…

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“It’s like someone took a transcript of a couple arguing at IKEA and made random edits until it compiled w/o errors”-xkcd.com/1513/n

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source Incredible rundown of the @congressedits saga from @edsu on @source Learning today: source.opennews.org/en-US/learning…

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 12:35 AM, Apr 17th, 2015 via Echofon)

chriskinsman @tomayac No problem. Used it for inspiration with github.com/chriskinsman/l… to get better reverse geo to postal codes…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:02 PM, Apr 16th, 2015 via Echofon)

Microsoft and Yahoo! agree to amend search partnership: info.yahoo.com/press-center/a…

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Thanks @chriskinsman for further improving the local reverse geocoder :-) github.com/tomayac/local-… Here’s to open source & you!

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@Olivier_Aubert Just to close the loop here, I need to dynamically (de-)activate tracks depending on which video is big. So my hack remains.

via Echofon in reply to Olivier_Aubert

Verifying myself: I am tomayac on Keybase.io. 4ePpqE1XSxnqsKXt5piebVt_puNKVaxb3PFD / keybase.io/tomayac/sigs/4…

via Twitter Web Client

@chriskinsman OK, just published v0.0.14 to npm. Careful: the output format was simplified. See the updated README: github.com/tomayac/local-…

via Twitter Web Client in reply to chriskinsman

Experiencing the awesomeness of open-sourcing my code: others make it better :D Merci @chriskinsman for github.com/tomayac/local-…

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kangax New blog post: everything you wanted to know about innerText, how IE got it right (!) & why we should standardize it perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misun…

via YoruFukurou (retweeted on 9:45 AM, Apr 12th, 2015 via Echofon)

mahemoff Pure-CSS reverse markdown! Show HTML as Markdown
gist.github.com/ImJasonH/c00cd… pic.twitter.com/qDTTcak6nz

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:35 AM, Apr 11th, 2015 via Echofon)

@Olivier_Aubert I need to dynamically switch who’s the master and who’re the slaves. Not sure yet if this is possible w/ mediagroup(.js).

via Echofon in reply to Olivier_Aubert

@Olivier_Aubert @polymer Thanks, that’s a very valid remark. Will see if it can be integrated.

via Echofon in reply to Olivier_Aubert

A @Docker tutorial for Node.js developers: airpair.com/node.js/posts/…

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Improved my @polymer Web Component by adding multi-camera support. Demo: hypervideo.herokuapp.com/demo_alternati…. Code: github.com/tomayac/polyme….

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ReaderMeter Google Scholar Button on the Chrome Web Store chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 4:29 PM, Apr 9th, 2015 via Echofon)

HTMLHint, a static code analysis tool for HTML: github.com/yaniswang/HTML…. Can be used from the CLI, Node.js, and the browser.

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@mischat Reg. Google Sidewiki: Never really took off (cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Si…). Reg. Wikidata: Working on github.com/google/primary….

via Echofon in reply to mischat

@mischat @fhuszar @dpalmisano Also reminds me of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Si…. The name was a bit misleading, though.

via Echofon in reply to mischat

@WikiResearch @wikidata Not all ;-) Only today I learned that you can append a &revision URL parameter: github.com/google/primary…

via Echofon in reply to WikiResearch

sw12 State of HTML5 Video report updated: codecs, MSE, fullscreen, WebVTT, EME jwplayer.com/html5 @jwplayer nice work! pic.twitter.com/NyGwxQSnW9

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:43 PM, Apr 8th, 2015 via Echofon)

SoVeryBritish Being unable to concentrate as someone gives you directions because you’re so focused on looking like you’re paying attention

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 2:13 PM, Apr 8th, 2015 via Echofon)

@pornelski @mahemoff And almost every bank when you paste IBAN or SWIFT/BIC. So annoying!

via Echofon in reply to kornelski

@navigdor Yes, in combination. My code has been stale for a couple of months now. Try @rtroncy & @giusepperizzo’s NERD maybe.

via Echofon in reply to navigdor

wsREST WS-REST2015 will be an exciting day with a varied program: ws-rest.org/2015/program/. Looking forward to see you there!

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:19 PM, Apr 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

bitchwhocodes totally am a tail-f girl, but just learned a new trick brianstorti.com/stop-using-tai…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:57 PM, Apr 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

@edsu @IgorBrigadir @electricarchaeo Agreed, WebSockets works. Personally, I believe—and code—in Server-Sent Eventswikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/sse24

via Echofon in reply to edsu

.@shiitakeo is going the extra mile to bring you Android Wear support to iOS: github.com/shiitakeo/andr… (unofficial, no endorsement).

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Fixed the annoying duplicate statements bug in the Freebase→Wikidata migration tool’s front-end. // Thanks mineo for pull requests, too.

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MarkusLanthaler Awesome work by @DanielRapp: motion sensing with nothing but a speaker and a mic bit.ly/1yqol0P Runs in browser

via Buffer (retweeted on 9:24 AM, Apr 5th, 2015 via Echofon)

.@o2de Really? Are these hph.name/303 the hops you make people take if they want to use their own router instead of yours? Why?

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vrandezo Released Wikidata primary sources tool to support Freebase migration. Feedback welcome! Thx @SSchaffert & @tomayac wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:39 PM, Apr 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

@benestar_wm Sounds good to me. Field tests have only just started now :-)

via Echofon in reply to benestaar

I’ve just committed the first release version of the Freebase→Wikidata primarysources tool’s front-end: github.com/google/primary…

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MediterraneaJS Welcome Thomas Steiner @tomayac back to Barcelona to speak at mediterraneajs.eu/people/thomas_…

via Buffer (retweeted on 11:56 AM, Apr 1st, 2015 via Echofon)