Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

October 2015

@stilkov LOL, same here. Flashback for me was M. Hadley’s reaction on J. Gregoreo’s JSON API discovery/description format :-)

via Echofon in reply to stilkov

Just found out the hard way that “font-weight: bold;” don’t render on Chrome: code.google.com/p/chromium/iss… 💩

via Echofon

edsu recently ran a short experiment with to compare streaming vs search twitter API results docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 9:37 PM, Oct 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

jindrichmynarz To see what @wikidata surrounds you, go to wikidata.org/wiki/Special:N….

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:53 PM, Oct 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

nicolastorzec Short interview w/ Enrique Alfonseca, who manages the Natural Language Understanding team at Google Research Zurich: kdnuggets.com/2015/10/seth-g…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 2:46 PM, Oct 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

Brilliant again on . Been there. Done that. xkcd.com/1597/

via Echofon

To improve German↔Arabic translations, we’re still looking for volunteers to help out: youtube.com/watch?v=Rcs7dx… Danke! شكرا

via Echofon

sengineland FAQ: All About The New Google RankBrain Algorithm by @dannysullivan selnd.com/1GvbcgS

via SocialFlow (retweeted on 8:58 PM, Oct 28th, 2015 via Twitter for iPhone)

mathias Use `input` instead of `keyup`/`keydown`. mathiasbynens.be/notes/oninput

Use `beforeinput` instead of `keypress`. w3c.github.io/uievents/#even…

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 10:21 AM, Oct 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

abursuc Searching and tagging Youtube videos with emojis emoji2video.com Nice work and fun demo from @mytweetontheweb @tejmensink @cgmsnoek

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:19 AM, Oct 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

~RT @jerem: inbox.google.com/trips is awesome. // +1, the feature should be added to the regular Gmail :-)

via Echofon

@herr_tu @jmiba @Lambo Yes, schema.org usage is definitely recommended and sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Yandex.

via Echofon in reply to herr_tu

@jmiba @Lambo @herr_tu What’s certain is that formats don’t matter: ” […] using any of 3 alternative formats [..developers.google.com/structured-dat…idll

via Echofon in reply to jmiba

@jmiba @Lambo @herr_tu See the 1st paragraph of developers.google.com/structured-dat… “[…] can […] present it more prominently in search results […]” :-)

via Echofon in reply to jmiba

Enabling 3D touch on older devices by calculating pressure intensity via the surface area of the finger reddit.com/r/jailbreak/co… Clever!

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mhausenblas wow, just wow: mimic—[ab]using Unicode to create tragedy
j.mp/1MPrkpZD

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 7:40 AM, Oct 27th, 2015 via Echofon)

MediterraneaJS Thomas Steiner @tomayac - Disaster Detection and Monitoring with Wikipedia and JavaScript vimeo.com/143112193

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 6:34 PM, Oct 25th, 2015 via Echofon)

Smartcrop.js by @29a_ch does exactly what its name suggests: github.com/jwagner/smartc…. Also check out his homepage: 29a.ch.

via Echofon

“display: flex;” is probably the most jaw-droppingly awesome addition to yet: css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a…

via Twitter for iPhone

googlewmc We are no longer recommending the AJAX crawling proposal we made back in 2009. See goo.gl/J5GNyk for more info.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:34 AM, Oct 15th, 2015 via Echofon)

PanguTeam We are very excited to announce the release of Pangu 9, the first untethered jailbreak tool for iOS 9 (pangu.io).

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:52 AM, Oct 14th, 2015 via Twitter Web Client)

MashableNews Twitter CEO @jack confirms 336 layoffs at company. His email to employees: sec.gov/Archives/edgar… pic.twitter.com/AG16IT0GVH

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 4:50 PM, Oct 13th, 2015 via Echofon)

Onderzoeksraad Video investigation crash flight MH17 (English spoken) (± 20 minutes) youtube.com/watch?v=KDiLEy…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 3:11 PM, Oct 13th, 2015 via Echofon)

RealGuerillero Where are the subjects of @Wikipedia audited content? Here’s a map. guerillero.net/WikipediaMap @WikiResearch pic.twitter.com/9s930PaJJh

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:39 PM, Oct 13th, 2015 via Echofon)

@jeffposnick @atotic Well, I would also argue that many query params are “hidden” behind .htaccess directives: wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteQ…

via Echofon in reply to jeffposnick

@jeffposnick @atotic IMHO: ex.org/#thing/subthin… looks more professional than ex.org/thing?sub=thin…. Also more flexible to change struct.

via Echofon in reply to jeffposnick

RubenVerborgh @txkuhn @karger I’d love if all talks started with conclusions—you know right away how closely you need to listen! I apply this to my talks.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 4:10 PM, Oct 12th, 2015 via Echofon)

@heikopaulheim @nlpdbpedia In a world where the system isn’t gamed the statement certainly holds true—the Web’s evil, theb good…

via Echofon in reply to heikopaulheim

Handy cheat sheet (if small-printed) w/ examples: help.wtf/es6 (via @rauschma’s 2ality.com/2015/10/es6-fe…)

via Echofon

rtroncy Truely amazing! Histography: interactive timeline of every historical event on , histography.io & vimeo.com/134567426

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 9:55 PM, Oct 10th, 2015 via Echofon)

@RubenVerborgh “Seeing”, Sir, “seeing” ;-) Enjoy the trip, sad to miss out… Hoping for a joint Banana Moment™ in the near future, though.

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

Google can now index iOS apps via the App Indexing SDK: developers.google.com/app-indexing/i… (via @wjarek)

via Echofon

PhilYoussef Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?
stackoverflow.com/questions/8318…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:38 PM, Oct 9th, 2015 via Echofon)

al_bert_brand New blog about Babel-free node.js with ES2015: blog.xebia.com/2015/10/08/bab…

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

thespite I’ve written a bit about that google logo in SVG in 305 bytes or less clicktorelease.com/blog/svg-googl… @addyosmani @aemkei

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:28 PM, Oct 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

AMP HTML, a performance-optimized subset of HTML powered by custom elements <amp-*> github.com/ampproject/amp… (via @cramforce)

via Echofon

vambenepe Keep Austin weird.
Keep Tahoe blue.
Keep Twitter oldschool.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:44 AM, Oct 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

@vambenepe Same here! I see we both use @echofon, a sane client that keeps Twitter oldschool. iOS app’s great, desktop almost (miss embeds).

via Echofon in reply to vambenepe

@IgorBrigadir I see them on desktop now. Still fails on mobile…

via Echofon in reply to IgorBrigadir

ebidel Introducing chromestatus.com/samples, a place to find samples for new web platform features. e.g. new in Chrome 46: chromestatus.com/samples#=46

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:33 PM, Oct 6th, 2015 via Echofon)

@nelson The name is Catalan and literally translated means “Dead Waters”…

via Echofon in reply to nelson

aaranged Google Planning to Expand JSON-LD Structured Data to More Features - bit.ly/1LvReUR @jenstar

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:28 PM, Oct 6th, 2015 via Echofon)

@IgorBrigadir Wonder why they’re geo-restricted. Can’t open a single one from my cell. Native Twitter app launches, then fails to display.

via Echofon in reply to IgorBrigadir

@humorkritik Too bad :-/ But think of the pre-Internet days where all you had was a (by definition) non-permanent institute address.

via Echofon in reply to humorkritik

adambain I’m thrilled @jack is now Twitter’s permanent CEO, and honored to serve as COO. No one has thought more about @Twitter than him.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:18 PM, Oct 5th, 2015 via Echofon)

Taking my 8-year-old to the Kids University Hamburg (kinderuni-hamburg.de/startseite.html). Feeling immediately at home, eduroam Wi-Fi still works :-)

via Echofon

My breaking news candidate bot @mediagalleries is back! Update issue w/ jsdom module & Node.js legacy v0.12.x..@WikiLiveMonon was unaffected.

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BoingBoing 8,400+ @NASA Apollo moon mission photos just went online in hi-res. Have fun with them. boingboing.net/2015/10/02/nas… pic.twitter.com/cO9LkSCydG

via Buffer (retweeted on 11:10 AM, Oct 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

wikidata Freebase to Wikidata: Results of Tpt’s internship: lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:27 PM, Oct 2nd, 2015 via Echofon)

SaraSoueidan Image Diffing Using CSS filters :: franklinta.com/2014/11/30/ima… — I love cleverS use cases like these.pic.twitter.com/gmb9tnvKcll

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:24 PM, Oct 2nd, 2015 via Echofon)