Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

August 2015

@RubenVerborgh might like this: ~RT @somebitsLinks: Ligatures in […] monospace fonts [.dlvr.it/C13062ul5I

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mikaelhuss The unofficial Google data science blog unofficialgoogledatascience.com via @josh_wills

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 7:49 PM, Aug 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

t ATT wifi injects ads webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att…
= I learned+deployed CSP indiewebcamp.com/Content-Securi…
You should too. (ttk.me t4cv2)

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@edsu Congratulations and good luck for the new endeavor.

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julienzanni “Building A BigQuery Name Badge Generator” by @TFayyaz medium.com/craft-with-dat…

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@vambenepe For my kids, it would be “Hungry!!! [EOM]”

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@joedevon Yes, Aardvark. Sorry, caught up with tweets in chronological order :-)

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ChromeDevTools New in DevTools: ⚡Aggregated timeline details, 🎨color palettes, 📰new main menu and much more. developers.google.com/web/updates/20… pic.twitter.com/PUGfTFlSBP

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somebitsLinks Ad blocking performance: Chrome is 3x faster, uses half the memory with an ad blocker dlvr.it/BzZMr1

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Paul_Kinlan Added Link: preconnect http headers on blog paul.kinlan.me preconnecting webfonts 1st render 200ms earlier

webpagetest.org/video/compare.…

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@mikewest OTOH, we retire Flash ads w/ _bulk_ upload support via AdWords API when HTML5 ads can only be up’ed 1-by-1. win, $ loss.

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Somebody has actually built the Pixar lamp: youtube.com/watch?v=dPnp3u…

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How Facebook’s assistant M works: wired.com/2015/08/how-fa…

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dnm54 lnkd.in/bKAdpxv Jessi Hempel in Wired shows mix between and human intervention for @facebook Messenger

via LinkedIn (retweeted on 10:58 PM, Aug 26th, 2015 via Echofon)

MozWebExt Answering the most common questions and misconceptions about : wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:02 AM, Aug 26th, 2015 via Echofon)

igrigorik first implementation of requestIdleCallback is in Chrome Canary: bit.ly/1ML2ElX - give it a try! pic.twitter.com/cNkbSdfVzG

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:40 PM, Aug 25th, 2015 via Echofon)

Breaking the SQL barrier: Google user-defined functions googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2015/08/breaki…. This is ultra-powerful.

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“[U]sing -intrusive user info can increase ad effectiveness by over 30% compared to random targeting”-weis2015.econinfosec.org/papers/WEIS_20…M [PDF]

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@RubenVerborgh Or: they finally have you where they wanted you.

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RubenVerborgh ESLint fully adapts to my taste. Every rule offers a style I like—and makes me consistently apply it.eslint.org/docs/rules/Nt

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:21 PM, Aug 24th, 2015 via Echofon)

spacy_io Displaying linguistic structure with CSS spacy.io/blog/displacy pic.twitter.com/azKz92LkNC

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Mybridge How Flipboard Scales Image Aesthetically with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.@normantasfi bit.ly/1NoJ0O6 pic.twitter.com/yWjL8AcAb0

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:46 PM, Aug 24th, 2015 via Echofon)

@jsalsman Thanks. I’ll get back on Monday. Still in weekend mode. Cheers.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to jsalsman

lvh querySelectorAll from an element probably doesn’t do what you think it does:
lvh.io/posts/querysel…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:09 PM, Aug 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

@moustaki Congratulations, Yves! Enjoy the new endeavor!

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29a_ch I created a new tool for discovering manipulations and hidden detail in digital images. 29a.ch/photo-forensic… pic.twitter.com/RT80BbX2u5

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:57 PM, Aug 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

deadsquid We’re making changes to make and more awesome. Here’s what add-on developers should know: blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:28 PM, Aug 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

mischat And we have some new blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-emoj… …. 💩is still my favourite

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 3:42 PM, Aug 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

@XING_de Danke fürs Veranstalten des gestern. Anbei das mediale Best-of :-) CC: @PascalLandau, @RikeHH pic.twitter.com/dk95eT7Ajb

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eva_zangerle slides of my talk online: Wikipedia on Twitter: Analyzing Tweets about Wikipedia slideshare.net/evazangerle/wi…

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somebitsLinks Regex 101: Very good interactive regex tester dlvr.it/BvtCkC

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 2:17 AM, Aug 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

nicolastorzec Bing releases its own “Knowledge & Action Graph API on tap” for developers: contextually relevant KG cards for apps. blogs.bing.com/search/2015/08…

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 4:46 PM, Aug 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

WikiResearch “How Wikipedia responds to breaking news” (dissertation) blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/17/wik… E.g. reference density rises in time pic.twitter.com/QuF9C83iLF

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:31 PM, Aug 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

Fantastic post on task vs microtask execution in by @jaffathecake that I’m still wrapping my head around jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-mic…

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.@timbray puts some of that Amazon article (mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/tec…) the Internet is abuzz about into perspective: tbray.org/ongoing/When/2….

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@nelson Tried linking all ML posts, but you don’t use WordPress tags (could link search, good). Love somebit hackable URLs /tech/{bad|good}.

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Thoroughly enjoying @nelson’s logs of his experience taking @AndrewYNg’s class on @coursera: nelsonslog.wordpress.com/?s=machine+lea… Thanks

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@ReaderMeter Cool stuff! What is your definition of “bot”? Based on user agent string?

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@nicolastorzec More filter bubble, less serendipity :-/ Wondering if this affects just the article bottom rec’s, or the landing page, too.

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Fascinating new face detection (not recognition) API avail. in Android: android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/face-d…. getIsLeftEyeOpenProbability() = 0.0 😜

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RubenVerborgh As afraid as I was when io.js split off, so happy I’m now that .js and .js are converging again! medium.com/node-js-javasc…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:44 PM, Aug 13th, 2015 via Echofon)

That’s pretty meta: @WikiLiveMon bot tweeting about @wpstubs bot’s tweet on the 2015 Tianjin explosion: twitter.com/WikiLiveMon/st…

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umaar Loads of ES6 equivalents in ES5 - github.com/addyosmani/es6… - Side by side comparisons, quite nice to learn from. pic.twitter.com/4IkqfjDmnz

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:36 PM, Aug 12th, 2015 via Echofon)

dapaasproject Essential reading - “Making Mainstream Requires Simple Not Clever Things”: drjamesmalone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/making… (@jamesmalone)

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@RubenVerborgh LOL’ing at X-caveML 2.0. Brilliant talk abstract!

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This post by Larry Page might be interesting to some of you: plus.google.com/+LarryPage/pos…

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Enjoying the convenience of Intl.js (github.com/andyearnshaw/I…), polyfills ’s Intl.NumberFormat & Intl.DateTimeFormat.

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@jsalsman @cambecc Could you write up in a little more detail what you’re trying to do? What data do you want where? tomac@google.com.

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Composing music w/ recurrent neural networks: hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/com… (via @ogrisel > @Chris_Said)

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borismus Greatly improved webvr-polyfill head tracking w/ prediction (using devicemotion events). Looking great in iOS 9! borismus.github.io/webvr-boilerpl…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:36 PM, Aug 9th, 2015 via Echofon)

mroth As promised: “How I Kept Building Emojitracker,” some updates to the original post from past 1.5 years of change. medium.com/@mroth/how-i-k…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:59 AM, Aug 9th, 2015 via Twitter Lite)

stubbornella This visual introduction to machine learning is really cool (and beautiful)! I <3 data visualizations. r2d3.us/visual-intro-t…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:41 PM, Aug 8th, 2015 via Echofon)

Realtime visualization of use on Twitter: emojitracker.com Love wins ❤️ (via @somebitsLinks)

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ChromeDevTools We’ve moved! Visit the new DevTools homepage for action-oriented tutorials, tips, and news. developers.google.com/web/tools/chro… pic.twitter.com/vI3ArxjvBw

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holman Really enjoyed this Facebook Engineering post on delivering a ~100KB cover photo in 200 bytes: code.facebook.com/posts/99125254…

via Tweetbot for iΟS (retweeted on 11:14 PM, Aug 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

sjgknight identifying pivotal articles in the dynamic collective knowledge of publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/1…

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Same origin violation and local file stealing via PDF reader — Mozillamozilla.org/en-US/security…k

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The brilliant @rauschma on “Getting started with ECMAScript 6” 2ality.com/2015/08/gettin…

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@anthony_sennett Just make sure to never make rookie mistake #3: forgetting to add .catch() pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-…

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@hfmuehleisen Deshalb ja approximiert laut Zugherkunft & -ziel (wobei das Ziel wohl fast immer Amsterdam sein wird). xkcd.com/1138/

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@hfmuehleisen Reichen die Daten schon für eine schöne (anonymisierte) approximierte Karte mit Device-Bewegungsprofilen laut Zugnummern?

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@hfmuehleisen Cooles TrainWatch Projekt! Könnte man natürlich ausrollen auf jed. offene W-LAN. HTTPS FTW! Meta: Im Zug am eig. Boot vorbei…

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.@anthony_sennett Rookie mistake #5 on pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-… ;-) I spent _days_ to wrap my head around the post. Best resource on Promises!

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As HTTPS renders referer (sic) analyses impossible on @Google, @googlewmc team have released the Search Analytics API googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/08/introd…

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WikiResearch A quick hack to generate an animated GIF of the edit history of a @Wikipedia article dltj.org/article/emanue… pic.twitter.com/iI2ZNd9fwT

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googleresearch Researchers from Google and MIT CSAIL present a computational approach for obstruction-free photography - goo.gl/RA2U6l

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:46 AM, Aug 5th, 2015 via Echofon)

jeffposnick Queue Google Analytics pings while a web app’s offline and replay them when it’s back online: github.com/PolymerElement… pic.twitter.com/RSqwayMG3Y

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:15 PM, Aug 4th, 2015 via Echofon)

Didn’t know about the @Windows God mode feature: create a folder named GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} redmondpie.com/how-to-enable-…

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mikeal Mojibar, fucking brilliant. github.com/muan/mojibar

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Hackers exploited a Flash vulnerability w/ Yahoo! Ads: bits.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/08/03/ha… Time to switch to : richmediagallery.com/resources/html5

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Lovely @WikiCommons content on news events around the 2015 World Aquatics Championships published by @mediagalleries: pic.twitter.com/P4C5kO92rR

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My new <youtube-masthead-mockup> @polymer-based Web Component might come in handy when you run @YouTube masthead ads: tomayac.github.io/youtube-masthe…

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“When binding to style, href, class, for, data-* attributes, it’s recommend to use attrib binding syntax” polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devgu… @polymer

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dret with many APIs comes great responsibility: how the seemingly harmless “ Battery Status ” threatens privacy eprint.iacr.org/2015/616.pdf

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:26 PM, Aug 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

googleresearch Squeezing the power of Neural Networks onto your mobile device, with Google Translate - goo.gl/aWF1tC pic.twitter.com/bKqT2XFpdW

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:28 PM, Aug 2nd, 2015 via Echofon)

WikiResearch “Detecting Vandalism on Wikipedia
across Multiple Languages” (Ph.D. thesis) digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885…

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mikewest Speaking of the HTTP WG, I’d like to kickstart “First-Party-Only” cookies: lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi… WDYT, Internets?

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:19 PM, Aug 2nd, 2015 via Echofon)