Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

January 2016

@phaase LOL, couldn’t agree more :-)

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jeffposnick @surmair @addyosmani Is this like when you search for Polymer & you realize the results don’t make sense without a PhD in organic chemistry?

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shit_hn_says Why don’t they just host GitHub wherever the status site is hosted?

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:20 AM, Jan 30th, 2016 via Echofon)

@philostar Works on desktop, thanks. Now need to play with it in more detail…

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metromoxie Starting in Chrome 50, geolocation will not be available in insecure contexts (i.e. only HTTPS embedded in HTTPS): codereview.chromium.org/1530403002/

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#SemanticWeb @ESWC_Conf paper reviews—What was the sample entity pre-@BarackObama was @POTUS & what will it be post? https://t.co/Vj3E96XdRV

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@philostar Thanks :-) Not sure what is wrong, though, but I get redirected to a blank screen after the OAuth danceâ€pic.twitter.com/8rRTQTScS6S6

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RT @cramforce: Blogpost about how AMP maintains high performance when a page decides it requires 10-20 analytics providers
https://t.co/BxJ…

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RT @rauchg: Macdown is awesome.
🔹 Free & OSS
🔹 Live side-preview
🔹 GitHub M↔ + syntax highlighting
https://t.co/bxKrUU6aLL https://t.co/z1…

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WikimediaCH Anonymous edits vs. registered users vs. bots : see who edits Wikipedia the most buff.ly/1PjkWhP pic.twitter.com/HJ3yPOXfsq

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RT @mathias: Take any Facebook/Instagram photo URL.

💉 append `.txt` → ASCII art
💉 append `.html` → colored ASCII art

E.g. https://t.co/Gg…

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DeanoHume How to create a really, really simple custom offline page using Service Workers bit.ly/offline-page pic.twitter.com/qy8A74QK2O

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@rakugojon I’d be interested, but am limited time wise :-/ On a positive note, tho, my code’s open https://t.co/0tHzGC6Rji. Hope this helps!

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@philostar Cool, looking forward to playing with it :-)

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@philostar Good luck with your company. I would be most interested to get in the trial if this is possible at all?! Thanks!

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RT @jaffathecake: The streams API is a new primitive with massive potential, from transcoding video to serving content *really* fast

https…

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RT @mahemoff: “Debugability is hugely important, and I think we may not give it the importance that it deserves.” https://t.co/StPapW3FoO €¦

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@vambenepe On a positive note, you’d get an äöüÄÖÜ for free, plus even an ß. There’s no saying “nein” at this p) #QWERTZ

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@vambenepe Then funny enough a German QWERTZ (Mac) keyboard may fit. All accents easily available as well as coding characters {}[]();,!.

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RT @mbostock: Escape callback hell 🔥 with Queue.js! Version 1.2 adds queue.abort and a much-improved README. https://t.co/Yr2Pathhb4

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RT @ChristopherBlum: Reverse engineering of Nest devices https://t.co/hxGK9h7saf

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printminion Cool feature in Google Chrome v48.
“open link in different chrome profile” I suppose ;) pic.twitter.com/AQi5RGtVnL

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addyosmani @kangax An early version of DevTools CPU throttling is available in Experiments > hit shift 6 times > CPU throttling pic.twitter.com/y8j8yOgUKj

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@tomayac Hmmm, seems like https://t.co/DUtouoOpjf is the working link, the blog post disappeared. (CC: @bsletten)

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J2ObjC released: Java-2-Objective-C compiler so that Android & iOS apps can share the same logic (excluding UI code) https://t.co/Id6EZxHJ3I

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RT @mahemoff: An email that evolves as you forward it by @HTeuMeuLeu. Genius hack based on mail services morphing the html https://t.co/zqV…

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GundersenMarius I love this diagram in the WHATWG spec. It explains it much better than words could pic.twitter.com/RflCT5JIGu

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@denormalize Haven’t used Electron before & have no insights into how it handles sandboxing. Are you referring to https://t.co/UsoURQhqnP?

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RT @ESnextNews: Understand promises before you start using async/await
https://t.co/RBo9EeZekP ^ar

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RT @assaf: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux https://t.co/7U1fFCs9MZ

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@ReaderMeter Open collaboration FTW indeed. Detected several times by @mediagalleries too, 1st time here: https://t.co/3Q5wCM6HTX #Planet9

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RT @domenic: BOOM. <script type=”module”> coming soon to a browser near you. https://t.co/W8nXReyqUa https://t.co/TtgqyoItqS

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AMP now has experimental support for paywalls, payments […]
https://t.co/xh4VMYOZXy (via @cramforce)

→AMP Reader ID https://t.co/afKfvPR2uJ

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danbri .@sideshowbarker re html-tidy.org has anyone built it as JS via Emscripten?

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RT @JohnMu: Search Console is turning the AMP up! If you are too, check out the aggregated error reports https://t.co/TwAzhJor7V https://t.…

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Wow, MicroSoftâ„¢ have made a pull request to move Node.js to @ChakraCore: https://t.co/5bGRDYb7z0

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RT @nelson: The future is Dick Costolo posting screenshots of paragraphs of text.
On Twitter.
Forever. https://t.co/ittxN216jx

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RT @ChristopherBlum: Support our recent OpenSource project by upvoting it on Hacker News: https://t.co/USIJRZpTxB

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RT @exploringjs: A new release of “Exploring ES6” is online at https://t.co/2NONFt6Q06
This is new: https://t.co/RvrUawV3cE

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Interesting attack vector: recognizing speech from phones’ gyroscope signals, JavaScript-accessible w/o approval: crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

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Charting @Wikipedia Pageviews API data’s just gotten ridiculously easy—Read how https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV #Wikipedia15 https://t.co/H7d73VTG9B

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For , brushed off some dust of my @Wikipedia & @wikidata realtime edit stats app “Bots vs. Wikipedians” wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com

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Learning how to create Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP⚡️) has gotten a lot easier: https://t.co/DeLUBXg1mO

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Great blog post on the new #ES2015 constants (const): https://t.co/YJovuZuEie (via @brucel’s Reading List https://t.co/ydzyIMZgGx)

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, thanks for existing & making your usage data avail., which enabled me to build @WikiLiveMon & @mediagalleries during .

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RT @jure: The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks
https://t.co/Q8GFRdYBri

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aemkei Great article and beautiful maps by @sensescape and @mapzen about what lines can describe: mapzen.com/blog/lines pic.twitter.com/px2vopX3TD

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RT @lucyamorris: The Internet Archive just added 2,300 MS-DOS games to their library. Enjoy! https://t.co/e8nvqXIJhI https://t.co/6v0wdOIyXl

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I’m not much of a C programmer, but enjoyed this critique & the original piece on “How to C in 2016”: https://t.co/sVGvxxNlfM (via @tcurdt)

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.@pietercolpaert My local reverse geocoder for Node.js might come in handy… https://t.co/cn6WNhmSvb https://t.co/9w7Irhz1ox

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FiveThirtyEight The most-edited Wikipedia pages over the last 15 years: 53eig.ht/1P2TFQF pic.twitter.com/lArHv6kqEa

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An open letter created on @GitHub to GitHub for making working with GitHub better: https://t.co/zfkfHYRlqC.

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RT @rauschma: “10th Anniversary of jQuery” by @jeresig
https://t.co/rondXyCtaR

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@maxlath Cool, thanks! Will have a look. Wikidata types are mighty beasts ;-)

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Credit where credit is due: WIKIDATAFACTS() is greatly powered by @maxlath’s simplifyClaims: https://t.co/hCuf8Rh7mO https://t.co/uz0B20Txjg

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I’ve improved my @Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV w/ a new @WIKIDATA -FACTS function https://t.co/4RUU14xp1Y

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RT @aemkei: The most amazing project we did at @Ubilabs for @GoogleMaps just launched:
https://t.co/ggUMm94ueT #miniview https://t.co/hUOLe…

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RT @rauschma: OS X — recommended bitmap graphics editor for programmers: GraphicConverter by @lemkesoft (no frills, easy to use)
https://t.…

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RT @stefanpenner: if anyone is looking for a great read: https://t.co/miULYkQooY

Explains the current state of computer security…

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RT @rauschma: “JS Standard Style”
Don’t like name, don’t agree w/ all choices, love idea: ready-made .eslintrc, .jshintrc, .jscsrc
https://…

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googleresearch Interested in a career in deep learning? Apply to the Google Brain Residency Program at g.co/brainresidency pic.twitter.com/ANWQ0ivoPB

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:48 PM, Jan 12th, 2016 via Echofon)

Only now stumbled upon @maxlath’s @Wikidata SDK for JavaScript: https://t.co/dqdTRibgUb. Great work!

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aaranged Google Implements Direct Knowledge Panel Editing on Desktop and Mobile - bit.ly/1mQQFe6 @mblumenthal

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RT @jure: We’re hosting the 2016 Wiki Workshop at @www2016ca (Montreal) and @icwsm (Cologne). Call for papers: https://t.co/SpEAL449wE #www…

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@Paul_Kinlan My understanding is that people prefer @Medium for discoverability (like app stores?!), but I prefer my curated RSS feed :-)

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~“[W]e heard [citation needed!] a total of 147 applications had been received […] & eventually 2 will be EU-grantwp.me/p4s8AU-2wJocOXAVl

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Props to @Paul_Kinlan for co-publishing to personal blog & @Medium, e.g., in https://t.co/pJ53ZusT4e (must-read post). Don’t let blogs die!

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RT @WikiResearch: Machine learning algorithm to predict which words in a Wikipedia article will get wikilinked https://t.co/TfUO0igEzn

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RT @otisg: Wow, a Bash package manager?! https://t.co/BNTMx70hle

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RT @suneman: United Stats of Words: https://t.co/dkk2YVPXAD A little blog post with links to my favorite finds from our interactive twitter…

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Crappy Web practices that need to stop https://t.co/iLQwiqJhy2 Fascinating link from the piece on visitor uniqueness https://t.co/60pc1NYNab

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somebitsLinks Chinese map distortions: Google Maps in China shows odd artifacts to comply with Chinese security law dlvr.it/DDWgGC

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rauschma If, by end of year, we have full ES6 in browsers and Node.js and ES6 modules in npm, the JS ecosystem will have made a huge leap forward.

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 8:34 PM, Jan 8th, 2016 via Echofon)

petewarden Colorizing black and white photos using neural networks - tinyclouds.org/colorize/ - once you can understand image content, magic happens!

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Added more funcs to my Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets for categories: https://t.co/0F3N7Zk3j6 Updated demo: https://t.co/gnvAGKMNGl

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@Tpt93 And misspellings like https://t.co/o83AmuUEYW. Valuable (AdWords) keywords $-) if you think global scale…

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@Tpt93 I agree, the data is sometimes suboptimal (as on Wikidata, too). But then also you find pearls like https://t.co/uQhY5Tf2qr :-)

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@Tpt93 As I said, redirects are more than aliases: for human-readable see https://t.co/UdTBQd1LWr, via the API it’s https://t.co/IswuRfdVO8.

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@Tpt93 Fair enough, you’re right. Still missing redirects, though (https://t.co/IswuRfdVO8). These are more than Wikidata labels.

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@Tpt93 I guess the answer is “because people”. Wikidata’s “Q64” is less speaking than “Berlin” https://t.co/PSeCI7wlxh. Also less API calls.

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Created a couple of convenience functions around #Wikipedia for use in Google Spreadsheets https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV https://t.co/cbi6FjF4IS

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RT @chiller: Things no @twitter user wants:
-Moments
-Non chronological tweets
-Tweets from people we don’t follow
-Promoted bs.
-More than…

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RT @kevinmarks: “how can we improve twitter?”
“what if we got paid to automate astroturfing?”
“brilliant, ship it”
https://t.co/DpI3fRO7vd

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Yay, our paper “From @Fbase to @Wikidata: The Great Migration” got accepted to the #WWW2016 Industry Track: https://t.co/O4mLQAYQfa :-D

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RT @WHATWG: Looks like 2016 will bring <script type=module> to @htmlstandard. Happy new year everyone! https://t.co/FmDNV6sUrO

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