Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

September 2015

ChromiumDev What do we want? ES2015! When do we want it? Now! New on exactly that: developers.google.com/web/shows/ttt/… pic.twitter.com/u8aiVvAIo4

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.@ChristopherBlum presents @protonet’s cool Experimental Platform for “Heroku”-like IoT projects: github.com/experimental-p…

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aerotwist I’ve been banging my head against CORS & Mixed Content. My problem is that I don’t think proxies are a good answer:

aerotwist.com/blog/cors-for-…

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addyosmani What’s new in @ChromeDevTools? new slides on performance, JS debugging, animation & more 🔥

speakerdeck.com/addyosmani/wha… pic.twitter.com/N0Rs4WVA5E

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:17 AM, Sep 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

harinigunabalan Interesting Keynote of the second day 2015 Thank you @codetalkshh @RailsGirls_FFM for this opportunity! pic.twitter.com/KXwkER1sdz

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:03 AM, Sep 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

zenorocha ✂ Introducing Clipboard.js 📋

Copy to clipboard without Flash. Built with ES6 + Browserify zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:17 PM, Sep 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

tastapod I love this. Ed @Snowden is only following one account on Twitter. Guess which one.

via Tweetbot for iΟS (retweeted on 8:29 PM, Sep 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

brucel Most-searched terms on PornHub by nation, from interesting SFW article in The Economist economist.com/news/internati… pic.twitter.com/DQeyFxb6AO

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:24 PM, Sep 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

Snowden Can you hear me now?

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:20 PM, Sep 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

StackExchange let anyone run queries on top of their databases, e.g., StackOverflow: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/…

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Creating PDFs in the browser in pure JavaScript, w/ live preview in playground: pdfmake.org/playground.html pic.twitter.com/VAUSdMXMoX

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ReaderMeter Tone aside, this thread covers some very fundamental research questions on @wikidata and large-scale human curation lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki…

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.@Twitter explained—See whom chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…e) people smarter than you (e.g.twitter.com/cawelty/follow…L) follow. Follow’em in turn…

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Slowly preparing my @codetalkshh keynote on the @fbase→@wikidata migration: codetalks.de/2015/programm/…. Work of @Tpt93, @SSchaffert, @vrandezo…

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Speak [German] and [Arabic or Farsi]? You can help make Google Translate better for refugees: translate.google.com/about/intl/de_…

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miha_jlo Great News! Our Ad Targeting Workshop will be held at Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned.. CFP coming soon

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:49 AM, Sep 27th, 2015 via Echofon)

You can now call Google Apps Scripts from external sources: developers.google.com/apps-script/gu…. Exciting hacks ahead.

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Pretty efficient use of regular expressions in @adblockfast—these few lines kill most ads:github.com/rocketshipapps…S

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somebitsLinks Uber backup system: They use drivers’ phones as backup storage to cover datacenter failure dlvr.it/CGJQyD

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 6:20 PM, Sep 25th, 2015 via Echofon)

janl greenkeeper.io tl;dr:
1. pins your npm dependencies
2. sends PRs when dependencies update, automatically
3. there is no step three

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 6:15 PM, Sep 25th, 2015 via Echofon)

russellsavage Having trouble wrapping your head around Ad Customizers w/ Scripts? Check out my @sengineland post! searchengineland.com/harness-power-…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:18 PM, Sep 24th, 2015 via Echofon)

WikiResearch “Learning State Changing Verbs from Wikipedia Revision History” emnlp2015.org/proceedings/EM… (“born/died/elected/married” etc. from infobox edits)

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 9:48 PM, Sep 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

slevithan XRegExp 3.0.0 finally released on GitHub and npm after 3+ years! git.io/xregexp

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:08 PM, Sep 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

@ndiakopoulos Thanks nevertheless for the citation :D Wish I’d more time to make both bots better… Source is opengithub.com/tomayac/wikipe…JH

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“News Bots—Automating News and Information Dissemination on Twitter” by@ndiakopouloss, features@WikiLiveMonnnickdiakopoulos.com/wp-content/upl…u [PDF]

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TwitterAPI Announcement: moving t.co to HTTPS only for new links, from October 1 twittercommunity.com/t/moving-t-co-…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:55 AM, Sep 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

addyosmani @ChromiumDev Developer notices a Chrome rendering bug and decides to turn it into an emoji maze game: github.com/szhu/3030 🎮

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:15 PM, Sep 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

A list of know tracking and fingerprinting vectors in browsers: chromium.org/Home/chromium-…

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scott_fay It’s “Whom to follow,” dammit, and now I found a chrome extension solution: goo.gl/aiErMt Thank you @tomayac. ?

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:32 AM, Sep 21st, 2015 via Echofon)

@mahemoff “short_url_length_https”: 23

Should be a no-brainer for Twitter clients to query the API for this info occasionally. Few do :-/

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@AmrapaliZ Wow, congratulations on the new endeavor!

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HTTP refer(r)er changes for improved security on Google ad clicks: googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2015/09/referr…

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@polymer Why do you mix JavaScript, CSS, & HTML in the same file ex-elem.html during element dev rather than separate files?

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Thoroughly enjoying the polymer-project.org/summit (live streamed). Great talks on , testing, offline & push, and !

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+1 @github-flavored online editor jbt.github.io/markdown-edito… Highlights zero-width space (to avoid autolinking) somebits.com/weblog/tech/ze…

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miriamkp I’ve found images in books with OpenCV; here’s instructions for using it to find books in images! pythontips.com/2015/03/11/a-g…

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Cool Google easter egg: search for “Super Mario Bros”: google.com/search?q=super…

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ebidel Make sense of the <link rel=”dns-prefetch|preconnect|prefetch|subresource|prerender|preload”> options & when to use: css-tricks.com/prefetching-pr…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 6:41 AM, Sep 14th, 2015 via Echofon)

MarkusLanthaler Quick tip from the trenches: turn off annotations and channel promotions on YouTube videos by default bit.ly/1M6wS4l

via Buffer (retweeted on 5:57 AM, Sep 14th, 2015 via Echofon)

Papa Parse—A powerful in-browser .csv parser:papaparse.comlt

via Twitter for iPad

@RubenVerborgh @csarasuagar We need something like JavaScript source maps, but for SPARQL :-)

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

The Chrome bug that currently affects ad blocking: code.google.com/p/chromium/iss…

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romannurik I’ve open-sourced the layout visualizer used in the goo.gl/design/adfd @udacity course: github.com/romannurik/Lay… pic.twitter.com/QxSJMHrnnS

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 10:13 AM, Sep 8th, 2015 via Echofon)

If there’s ever been a time to be a little proud of this country, it’d be now: & from last 2 days pic.twitter.com/YIHkVsolCT

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On the “YouTube showing ads despite installed ad blocker on Chrome” situation: twitter.com/getadblock/sta…

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googleresearch German reseachers introduce a DNN that renders an input photo in the artistic style of a given piece of art - goo.gl/36ZlWM

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:30 PM, Sep 4th, 2015 via Echofon)

MonsieurKak The photo that upsets Europe editorial for @lopinion_fr pic.twitter.com/l2JGiTxVqz

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:24 PM, Sep 4th, 2015 via Echofon)

aaranged 3 URL Tweaks to Get More out of the Google Search Console UI - bit.ly/1XlpwgT @MerkleRKG

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:23 PM, Sep 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

@joedevon @novaspivack @aaranged Great idea, but category tagging shouldn’t happen on the client-side, but automatically on the server-side.

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LDFragments DBpedia 2015 A released—directly available as Triple Pattern Fragments:lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi…U Query DBpedia live:client.linkeddatafragments.orgL

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:15 PM, Sep 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

The code golfers have taken on the “new Google logo SVG shrink challenge”: output.jsbin.com/tokeki/quiet (view source, use Chrome Developer Tools).

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feross Watch the “Mother of all WebRTC demos”, featuring WebTorrent! youtube.com/watch?v=RRtNEc…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:32 AM, Sep 2nd, 2015 via Echofon)

igrigorik Automating resource selection with Client Hints: bit.ly/1JA97Oi.. img+picture got a lot smarter in Chrome 46! pic.twitter.com/jhhZAw2589

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:33 PM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

sundarpichai Excited to partner with Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix on the Alliance for Open Media, aomedia.org

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:31 PM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

~RT @aaranged: JSON-ish bit.ly/1LREuaE [O]n embedding HTML layout/presentation in JSON by Google’s Sam Goto // CC: @RubenVerborgh

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teek_s An in-depth look at the new Google brand identity. g.co/design/google-… via @GoogleDesign

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:24 PM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

jaffathecake Vertical centering in CSS

Modern browsers: jsbin.com/qitixu/edit?ht…
All the way to IE8: jsbin.com/tadihe/edit?ht…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 2:52 PM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

stopsatgreen Feeling like an unwelcome guest on medium.com. broken-links.com/2015/09/01/fee… pic.twitter.com/jdV2zlBkRn

via WordPress.com (retweeted on 2:49 PM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

aemkei Another must-watch episode of “How oldschool graphics work” is online: youtu.be/_rsycfDliZU – This time about the Apple 2 and Atari.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 10:10 AM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)

jeffposnick Source Code Pro (github.com/adobe-fonts/so…) is my current monospaced font of choice, but Hack looks worth trying: arstechnica.com/information-te…

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:20 AM, Sep 1st, 2015 via Echofon)