Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

December 2015

somebitsLinks Twitter outsourced Mac app: Well that’s crazy; engineering team not building the desktop client dlvr.it/D8VH2F

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 7:24 PM, Dec 31st, 2015 via Echofon)

$AMZN donates profits from Patriotic “Europeans” Against the “Islamization” of the Occident hymn sales: https://t.co/vK9Mkpwpcw #NoPEGIDA

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danwrong @stilkov SSE is hugely underused/underrated. It deserves more attention.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:37 PM, Dec 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

RT @addyosmani: Octo Linker links up dependencies, require() & ES2015 imports across packages on GitHub https://t.co/vhoZyyINi2 💌 https://t…

via Echofon

olizilla tldr-pages.github.io
Beginner friendly man pages, focused on the common use cases, and all in markdown!

this is a good thing.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:44 PM, Dec 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

ArtemYarulin Live coding for andorid, ios and browser with and . Plus real time state sync between :) pic.twitter.com/xp9xiB40qu

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:42 PM, Dec 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

narphorium The possibilities are endless (and hilarious) when anyone can apply to their small business youtu.be/02S06dG2clU

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:51 AM, Dec 29th, 2015 via Echofon)

RT @dalmaer: ★ Web Components Are Dead? Or are they slogging away at becoming an overnight success?
https://t.co/c5581gqFGF

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@tomayac @navelpluis So glad we moved on from the late 90ies browser optimization techniques: if (navigator.appName.indexOf(“Mac”) == -1) {}

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Rereading @navelpluis’s ’98 “Web Graphics”, the book I learned the basics of Web coding with https://t.co/qA7iBuYx9a https://t.co/GURFbZIHHZ

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RT @RubenVerborgh: After years of work, “The Pragmatic Proof” is finally accepted for publication—and readable online on arXiv https://t.co…

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RT @codepo8: Detecting AdBlock without an extra HTTP overhead https://t.co/6AFklrJIZi read height of an element with class adsbox https://t…

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@RubenVerborgh Last pointer before I STFU ;-) Ruby wrapper apparently lives here https://t.co/opCErabjwD. Merry Christmas :-)

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@RubenVerborgh But IE bug indeed. The spec is clear on the fact that it may be omitted… FWIW, savings IMHO aren’t worth the ambiguity peril.

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

@RubenVerborgh A p elem’s end tag MAY (not should) be omitted if the p elem is immediately followed by an […] aside—https://t.co/gvOplVbHX6

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@RubenVerborgh Also, why maintain your own when there is @kangax’s kangax.github.io/html-minifier/ with customizable “minify aggressiveness”?

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

@RubenVerborgh Always close them <p>-s and <li>-s :-)

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RT @Wikipedia: What happens when you search Wikipedia? https://t.co/SlhQCda7E0

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@ReaderMeter @edsu @harej My wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com has Wikidata (toggleable [is this a word?]) and works quite well on mobile as well.

via Echofon in reply to ReaderMeter

aaranged How to generate a Google Knowledge Panel without using the Knowledge Graph API when you know the Freebase MID - bit.ly/1JvLapv

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:51 AM, Dec 24th, 2015 via Echofon)

somebitsLinks Netflix per-title encoding: Netflix is getting a bit smarter about its video encoding. (But why not go full VBR?) dlvr.it/D57wM8

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 8:11 PM, Dec 23rd, 2015 via Echofon)

@csarasuagar Not as far as I can tell. Posting to +Freebase on Google+ (or through whatever medium the usual suspects directly) should work.

via Echofon in reply to csarasuagar

RT @aemkei: Recap of #CodetheRoad, Berlin: https://t.co/ZS9pS3C0QI

— and the refugee hackathon we organized in Hamburg: https://t.co/M2vf…

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RT @rauschma: “Tree-shaking versus dead code elimination” by @Rich_Harris
https://t.co/qHpEAoR7ST /cc @amasad @sebmck

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RT @djsmith42: Clever hack from a fantastic writeup of ES6 language features: https://t.co/mghOP79bwS https://t.co/f1UsYiNX3e

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RT @rauschma: .@tjvantoll: “Studies have shown that using ~45—75 characters in a line of text produces the most readable articles”
https://…

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xto6—An ES5 to ES2015 transpiler (or “upspiler”) w/ a promising roadmaxto6.js.orgvpt

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@aaranged @sergio_redondo s/Italian/Spanish :-) Appreciate the reverse-engineering…

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Great write-up and link collection on Google’s new Knowledge Graph Search API compiled by @aaranged: bit.ly/1Yn6xFM

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@nicolastorzec “Quietly” means via Google+ announcement ;-) https://t.co/t4jD9tbrEo It’s the new “soft-launched”…

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RT @Rich_Harris: I wrote about Google’s AMP project, and why the news industry should tread carefully https://t.co/xY0pmoLuFn Now just have…

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Why Facebook chose to move to #HTML5 video: https://t.co/nNV7R18ke2

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#SchemaOrg: Evolution of #StructuredData on the Web, by R.V. Guha, @danbri , S. Macbeth: https://t.co/pngc5RhXne

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googleresearch After 4 years of schema.org, “Structured data markup is now a core part of the modern web.” - goo.gl/L3zdXl

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:38 PM, Dec 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

RT @ChromiumDev: We improved the “randomness” of JavaScript’s Math.random() in Chrome: https://t.co/RBKkhMz5fy https://t.co/sOACQUSEqL

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Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API: https://t.co/8DbvN4yJRw #SemanticWeb

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RT @LeaVerou: New blog post: My positive experience as a woman in tech
https://t.co/JegGQGkEWe
Because the positive stories need to be hear…

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Google Apps Scripts just got an order of magnitude more awesome: https://t.co/2sXgnk9Lar. Finally you can write Apps Scripts via CLI :-)

via Twitter for iPhone

Proposal for a Background Sync API that, when offline, queues to-be-sent data until connectivity is reestablished: https://t.co/vtKCZwLM2l

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OpenType features & how to (theoretically, in too many cases) use them w/ CSS: https://t.co/owvJGNmOMs (via https://t.co/nOmY2IJBec)

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RT @ChromeDevTools: Ever tried to paste JSON into the Console and saw it fail? We’ve finally fixed it (in https://t.co/NoOVFSOnle) https://…

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RT @hatnotable: Ever wondered what the @Wikipedia community was reading?

Now we know: The Hatnote Top 100. https://t.co/VyX1yrBqgm https:…

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@DesertTrumpet @WikiLiveMon This would be nice indeed, but then there would have to be individual Twitter bots for each user. Impossible :-/

via Twitter Web Client in reply to DesertTrumpet

@DesertTrumpet @WikiLiveMon Soccer/Wrestling’s what many people edit on Wikipedia, cf. our paper for the methodology arxiv.org/abs/1303.4702

via Twitter Web Client in reply to DesertTrumpet

RT @wikidata: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view - a Signpost op-ed by @nightrose: https://t.co/6vIlBn18x9 https://t.co/2Hqe…

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RT @narphorium: “Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy” by @StevenLevy https://t.co/9X4gHrMxsW

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RT @onyxfish: The Quartz guide to bad data: my 6,000 word reference to data problems I’ve encountered over the last 6 years. https://t.co/N…

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The #privacy policies of various smart TVs, set top boxes, and streaming devices analyzed: https://t.co/dIP9enNM1z (via @AfterPad)

via Twitter for iPhone

albertocairo Move slow and fix things

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:21 PM, Dec 11th, 2015 via Echofon)

RT @arturitu: I wrote for @awwwards about #WebVR > “Do Websites Dream of Virtual Reality?” https://t.co/qFfsw9V8PP https://t.co/IinjQ1Vtkd

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Ted Cruz paid Turkers to harvest millions of Facebook users https://t.co/tPBeyapJ9Q Cambridge Analytica https://t.co/zOjqbn3sTe (via @edsu)

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~RT @shadow_hayato: Blink’s started to support Shadow DOM v1 […codereview.chromium.org/1489433002/A1 // About time. Shad{y, ow} DOM is very confusing.

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Today, the printer asked me if I had tried “turning it off and on againâTpic.twitter.com/MtGMN4BsHRN4BsHR

via Twitter for iPhone

Interesting op-ed by Andreas Kolbe: “Whither @Wikidata?”—https://t.co/VQ7wJuupU1

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RT @rauschma: My slides are now online: “From ES5 to ES6 (ES2015) and ES2016”
https://t.co/65ZlbIIsdH

via Twitter Web Client

RT @rauschma: Forstall pitches iPhone project (wasn’t allowed to be specific): “You’ll have to … work weekends for years” Shudder
https://t…

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RT @gauravseth: ANNOUNCED: At #NodeInteractive that we’ll be submitting a PR to @nodejs /w #ChakraCore, along with Chakra OSS https://t.co/…

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Much needed CSS (Web-) font-display property (https://t.co/srOJTH1a4l) now implemented in @GoogleChrome Canary: https://t.co/75fI1t9HPm.

via Twitter Web Client

RT @mahemoff: Several Node projects had NPM and Github credentials in open repositories. https://t.co/Ux2AZGnc00 via HN https://t.co/eLD0An 

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somebitsLinks Replacing Sawzall: Google replaces its internal log-analysis language with a Go library dlvr.it/CxBLlB

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 9:03 PM, Dec 6th, 2015 via Echofon)

RT @rauschma: documentation.js: like JSDoc, but:
— Based on Babel
— ES6, Flow type annotations
— Infers types
— Out: HTML,.md,JSON
https://…

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@Paul_Kinlan …and by “entry-level” (in 2015, in Germany) Web hosters mean managed hosting w/ 1 domain, PHP, and MySQL. Missing SSL :-(

via Echofon in reply to Paul_Kinlan

@Paul_Kinlan Not specifically picking on 1&1… When all entry-level (school kid affordable) hosting packs offer SSL, then we’re talking… IMHO

via Echofon in reply to Paul_Kinlan

kaodro Pretty well researched article: Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours? wpo.st/68_u0

via Mobile Web (retweeted on 11:04 AM, Dec 5th, 2015 via Echofon)

As much as I 💏 the trend to “HTTPS all the things”, it’s incompatible w/ managed HTTP hosting packages à la 1&1 where the +’S’ costs big €!

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@dret They’re already here! Check the redirects to the Wikipedia “Car” article https://t.co/9Aedb6ir7r (not recognized by Twitter’s parser)

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Technically fascinating new mobile app ad format that allows for streaming trial runs that work w/o installation: https://t.co/YXgjCrOpeY

via Twitter for iPhone

In-depth blog post on Facebook’s approach to video live-streaming: https://t.co/NSWTjFkeCN

via Twitter for iPhone

Infodisiac Major Wikistats upgrade: more and cleaner trends ow.ly/Vs0Fd pic.twitter.com/FGI1UNm5jM

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:49 AM, Dec 4th, 2015 via Echofon)

@ph_singer @JoopHox That’s what I thought. From my quick tests, I didn’t see a strong trend. But then, what’s a “Christian” country anyway…

via Echofon in reply to ph_singer

@nelson Wikipedia has you catered: https://t.co/FhRbMu0v77 :-/

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Gave an intro to JavaScript to the Google Hamburg office today powered entirely by the great @ChromeDevTools console https://t.co/sifGS7EWeM

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RT @vambenepe: Google Cloud Vision API is now in Preview: https://t.co/QEI6jG4avf Example: AeroSense processing drone photos to recognize w…

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@JoopHox Could you provide some context to this statement, please? According to what data source? Thanks.

via Echofon in reply to JoopHox