Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

February 2016

RT @rauschma: TypeScript will soon use the type information in JSDoc comments. Awesome; I’ve been wanting this for years.
https://t.co/YUR7…

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RT @jeanqasaur: Latest blog post: what my PhD was like. Wrote this to give prospective students an idea of what to expect. https://t.co/tVA…

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kangax TIL there’s `npm version …` which bumps version AND adds version commit (if running git) AND `git tag`s it. Nice nice.

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Made my Wikipedia pageviews.js client library friendlier (the purpose of client libs) by accepting native Date obj: https://t.co/VHlIi1Nr2A

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Following @puf’s intro to @Firebase talk: firebase.com A cross-device (iOS/Android/Web), realtime, offline-syncing JSON database.

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JavaScript to finally get lookbehind regular expressions support in v8: https://t.co/ToZh8mRTxm

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Stylelint is a mighty, modern CSS linter: stylelint.io. Now need some time to create a sane default .stylelintrc file.

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igrigorik <link rel=preload> is here! What is it for? Great overview: bit.ly/1S6kQde - take it out for a spin! pic.twitter.com/gO9IHsOuKp

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@mhausenblas It turns out @GitHub “thought” @sadads was a spam bot. Pinging support fixed it. Full story https://t.co/HguSGIymwH. Strange…

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Yet another new Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (https://t.co/nfplt2Exbp) trick: @WIKIDATA -QID($article). https://t.co/JBXAorugZE

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The Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (https://t.co/nfplt2Exbp) have learned a new trick: WIKISEARCH($query) https://t.co/WhJ90n6hmM

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RT @bathtype: Apple wrapped a span around the word “click” to apply more generous letter spacing, so it doesn’t look like “dick.” https://t…

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RT @pbakaus: Now that AMP has launched, how could life look like after AMP, fixing the web at large? Help me figure it out: https://t.co/3j…

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@mhausenblas @github I have an Issue that 404s for me, but is clearly there and has an ID. No answer so far. https://t.co/gjwxDJg3De

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RT @tkadlec: Pitching the idea of Content Performance Policies as a standardized alternative to AMP. https://t.co/1pcd2Jvbk6

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~RT @JohnMu: [P]ost about Search Console reports […] https://t.co/b86kkLHyX2 // If you’ve gone @AMPhtml but Search Console doesn’t “see” it.

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miha_jlo Here we have Facebook estimating probability of transitioning from “relationship” to “single” in 60 days pic.twitter.com/n5KcswW51D

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Friendly request for @AMPhtml to allow for <base> (https://t.co/tVpF5McEo5) in AMP âš¡ documents: https://t.co/E9f8F2htTd

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JigsawTeam Today @sundarpichai announced the expansion of Shield. We use Google infrastructure to defend independent news sites goo.gl/jhhU2e

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@hfmuehleisen @CWInl Woohoo! Gefeliciteerd!!!1!

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RT @GoogleDesign: Meet Resizer: a dynamic resource for testing out your responsive UI https://t.co/hjetvUm5KL #materialdesign https://t.co/…

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@GitHub Seems like my repo https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV is experiencing a challenge: issue 1 & silky’s fork aren’t shown. https://t.co/Y3Odc4I0vT

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Thanks to @pantojacoder, pageviews.js (JS client lib for the Wikipedia Pageviews API) is now available on @bower: https://t.co/69mbrLqlrE.

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RT @DasSurma: And it’s a proper progressive web app with offline and everything. Source code link at the bottom of the page.

https://t.co/…

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igrigorik Delivering Fast and Light Applications with (new) Save-Data header: bit.ly/1Oqgreo - shipping in Chrome 49! pic.twitter.com/pqnExY6CjA

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RT @newsycombinator: PeerTweet — Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent’s DHT network https://t.co/rqOyFYWY0V

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@rauschma We started thinking about it more concretely recently, mostly in the context of retailers. DM me if interested.

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RT @WikiEval: Did you know about @Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheets? Just released by @tomayac https://t.co/YP9YBIqbTH via @WikiResea…

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Started triaging, dealing with, & assigning issues raised for the @wikidata Primary Sources Tool. Sorry for the long turn-around time :-/

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RT @domenic: Pretty sweet library for easily and safely creating HTML elements using tagged template strings: https://t.co/C37AgU2eML

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@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda I see—An advanced mode could give the user full expressive freedom, whereas a basic mode could cover public queries.

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@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda Yepp, looking doable. Need to still figure out the OAuth details, but only after the weekend ;-)

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The “Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets” paper has been published on my @GoogleResearch profile: https://t.co/IyYb5bBcx6 (PDF→red icon)

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@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda Cool—I’ll have a look if itquarry.wmflabs.orguk) can be done. As long as it’s an HTTP interface it should work.

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RT @danbri: From my more numerate colleagues: https://t.co/ot0ayIt6Jg - statistics addon for google spreadsheets

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@JohnMu I’ve an 11-yo blog w/ legacy (X)HTML à la <img src=”ex.gif” align=”left”/>. AMPlifying it is still ongoing: https://t.co/qrL3ClJJZW

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paul_irish TIL: the `let` keyword provides such a big upgrade for the classic for-loop & closure problem. pic.twitter.com/MLiIz5YRac

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Noticing that typically @AMPhtml pages are island w/ all internal links to non-AMP pages (e.g. @Guardian https://t.co/OvHRPeDusp). Intended?

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RT @philwalton: I just released a new library called autotrack for analytics.js. You should try it if you use GA on your websites https://t…

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RT @vambenepe: The Google Cloud Vision API is now accessible to everyone https://t.co/QvQIECi2v1 How can you use image content detection fo…

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pmika @abursuc Yes, this post fails to mention that many other talented individuals will be leaving the company.

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Classic “off by one” error: “From Freebase to Wikidata” rather than the opposite :-) https://t.co/JOEuMXkgc0

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Impressive Amazon dataset https://t.co/gNsCQZ96mM I wonder what @felipehoffa can make out of it; @ftrain capitulated https://t.co/6OaJ0m3Dkj

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@Paul_Kinlan Out of pure interest, how much did you pay? It’s crazy expensive for hobbyists with @1and1: https://t.co/WPljhwEXmJ

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RT @jure: How to increase Wikipedia article creation rate by 3x across different languages #www2016 https://t.co/OTsGHPdw62

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@aaranged Let me know your power user feature requests :-)

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RT @aaranged: Bears RTing: Wikipedia Tools for Google Sheets https://t.co/XXXyNcB9qh Pictured WIKIPAGEVIEWS function: +1 @tomayac! https://…

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.@aaranged Thanks for the RT :-) Combined with the charting capability in Spreadsheets, the true power is unleashed: https://t.co/hl1utW2DrB

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.@tim_cook’s response to the @FBI’s data access request following the 2015 San Bernardino attack: https://t.co/i0dzfPpyws

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Impressive tresaure trove of @npmjs scripts to automate the website build process: https://t.co/sVFtYJGwzT. Covers JS, CSS, images,…

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Responsive email framework & mark-up language https://t.co/hEXYYKZX0f Sad that this is needed, but then there’s this https://t.co/xL4MSEsxrQ

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RT @stilkov: “The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people” — everything’s fine, nothing to see here https://t.co/v…

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RT @jure: Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes #www2016
https://t.co/KtVJt27S2d

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Updated the Wikipedia Tools https://t.co/r6VGiSfT30. New funcs: WIKIARTICLESAROUND, WIKICOMMONSLINK, WIKICATEGORIES. https://t.co/2tpf4Vbp6H

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@pchampin The best post-intro to read after getting one’s hands dirty with Promises: https://t.co/ULJSzotUWA

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WIKICATEGORYMEMBERS(“en:Category:US presidential candidates, 2016”), WIKIPAGEVIEWS(), ready: https://t.co/hl1utW2DrB https://t.co/pQXUYrEe2C

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Thanks for the feature request :-) https://t.co/37rNJ5K0oA

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And because #iLoveFS, the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets are open-sourced on GitHub https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV https://t.co/X91M4U2y67

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Google Apps Add-Ons are thoroughly reviewed—a lengthy but worthwhile process: here th@wikidataTA -FACTS() func docspic.twitter.com/llGcsdCRfJfJ

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The Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets are now available as an official Sheets Add-On: https://t.co/r6VGiSfT30. https://t.co/MKAEozdE4T

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@RubenVerborgh You should make a PR to add <marquee> support for excessively long paper titles… CC@pchampinin

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@kdzwinel @Paul_Kinlan Hmm, not sure I understand the rationale… Even navigator.geolocation is opt-in & IMHO doesn’t need to be HTTPS-only.

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@jerem (i) It’s probably a silo on purpose and (ii), they’re therefore not using SFSafariViewController (background https://t.co/mSeijKYXye)

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Impressive use of the experimental CSS “perspective” property (https://t.co/lrT19Le4OC) in this @SmashingMag demo: https://t.co/OCbBcW5VXS

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RT @wsREST: Now that our Program Chair is settled and full of great experts (https://t.co/6nuUj35Fjk), consider writing a paper: https://t.…

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RT @stilkov: Doubts about that GitHub study and the way it was presented: https://t.co/Ylcj9w1Dts

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Paper by Mazières & Kohler “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”: https://t.co/CjrN60Ovko (PDF). Background story: https://t.co/uCUf5usWSX

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From UIWebView to WKWebView to SFSafariViewController—progress of #iOS embedded Web views: https://t.co/mSeijKYXye & https://t.co/oeezUAtgd4

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RT @ReaderMeter: Elsevier reports a 99% drop in visible traffic from Wikipedia since we switched to HTTPS. This is how we’ll fix this https…

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@hypoalex Sorry, all I can do is point you to https://t.co/o0XXmbmoOi.

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Cool, they made the gravity waves available as a ringtone: https://t.co/Hqa6lgZH3z [mp3] https://t.co/CDjmrIavcR

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RT @jaffathecake: Chrome is changing how it loads stylesheets, allowing you to load & apply CSS progressively

https://t.co/ueHHqEICI7

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RT @thewikipedian: New blog post—@Twitter’s challenges and @Wikipedia’s aren’t all that different: https://t.co/Og5m7NiW4Z #RIPTwitter

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@pmika Yahoo! Labs London closing? :-O https://t.co/I1EoJkcAGm

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@bkeegan I read it as they used the Cloud Vision API, not really trained a deep learning model. Was hoping for an interpretation of results…

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~Sci-Hub is an online repo & Web service for reading scientific articles that bypasses paywalls.âen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hubeb (vi@IgorBrigadirir)

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“Things don’t happen ‘for a reason,’ but you can find purpose and meaning in things that do happen.”—@jhuber (via https://t.co/I9G1AQEa3D)

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Twitter’s long rumored “show me important tweets first” feature’s live https://t.co/txGEsjDnlJ Seems like turning it on has no effect on API

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RT @mahemoff: Wow, Opera looks set to be acquired https://t.co/l67rA3kKjV

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@todrobbins @edsu Yepp, same here for @1and1, apparently there is no obvious way to register Punycode or emoji domains for the mere mortals…

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@todrobbins @edsu Can’t resolve https://t.co/CBbC05Qr6m ;-) Wikipedia Tools are in final review for official add-on, soon easier to install!

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RT @ph_singer: Preprint of #www2016 poster “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia” /w @trovdimi @mstrohm https://t.co/3ja5C2LZay

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New paper “Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheetsarxiv.org/abs/1602.02506Nfnw Add some =WIKI* magic to your sheepic.twitter.com/vG2xFzGgrvGgrv

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Opening a PDF w/ evil Type 3 fonts and exporting the PDF to PDF w/ Preview automagically converts Type 3 fonts to TrueType. @www2016ca

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RT @jeroenbosman: @tomayac Care to share your research tool usage by taking this survey? https://t.co/msodKcIdh4 RT=nice https://t.co/ziMnR…

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RT @firstdraftnews: Take our new geolocation challenge and and test your verification skills with online maps https://t.co/kRVVzH2O1t https…

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hmason tweet.onerandom.com shows you random tweets. It makes it very clear that most people do not use Twitter the way you use Twitter.

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IgorBrigadir Vocal minority “Power Users” already use other tools. The important thing to keep access to is the API. I’ll when the API goes.

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RT @johl: „If MediaWiki was re-built from scratch in 2016, what would be different about its software architecture?“ https://t.co/hBs21OXvw5

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RT @nicolastorzec: Utilities that provide functions to enrich Google Spreadsheets’ sheets with Wikipedia data, by @tomayac: https://t.co/qg…

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@benestar_wm I’ve an accepted short paper on Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets that has a WIKIDATAFACTS func: https://t.co/TF3Hp6DH1Q.

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haoel The right way process JavaScript exception. pic.twitter.com/sMXqHICudI

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RT @mathias: On Facebook, everybody is connected to everyone else by only 3.46 people: https://t.co/zLJAFjGOWG https://t.co/jwO0x6LF6Y

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Great post by @Pistenprinz on how @Trivago managed to refactor their #CSS: https://t.co/ioxIs8dHoX Be sure to check the links to the tools!

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RT @Wikipedia: Randall Munroe at https://t.co/fRsg6hX476 reminds us to read list of common misconceptions https://t.co/K7tEegAVAY https://…

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Hacking @AMPhtml on my blog amp.tomayac.com. Not quite valid yet, but noticing a huge speed increaseâ€pic.twitter.com/nXygyhRhJPJP

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RT @ebidel: Wrote an article on URLSearchParams, my new fave. So useful! Gets rid of boilerplate code for working with a URL. https://t.co/…

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As good of a job as Apple’ve done at still allowing El Capitan on mid-2007 iMac, as bad of a job they’ve done at resuming its >6GB download.

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