rauschma TypeScript will soon use the type information in JSDoc comments. Awesome; I’ve been wanting this for years.
github.com/Microsoft/Type…
jeanqasaur Latest blog post: what my PhD was like. Wrote this to give prospective students an idea of what to expect. jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd…
kangax TIL there’s `npm version …` which bumps version AND adds version commit (if running git) AND `git tag`s it. Nice nice.
Made my Wikipedia pageviews.js client library friendlier (the purpose of client libs) by accepting native Date obj: github.com/tomayac/pagevi…
Following @puf’s intro to @Firebase talk: firebase.com A cross-device (iOS/Android/Web), realtime, offline-syncing JSON database.
JavaScript to finally get lookbehind regular expressions support in v8: v8project.blogspot.com/2016/02/regexp…
Stylelint is a mighty, modern CSS linter: stylelint.io. Now need some time to create a sane default .stylelintrc file.
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
@mhausenblas It turns out @github “thought” @sadads was a spam bot. Pinging support fixed it. Full story github.com/isaacs/github/…. Strange…
Yet another new Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (twitter.com/tomayac/status…) trick: @wikidata -QID($article). pic.twitter.com/JBXAorugZE
The Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (twitter.com/tomayac/status…) have learned a new trick: WIKISEARCH($query) pic.twitter.com/WhJ90n6hmM
bathtype Apple wrapped a span around the word “click” to apply more generous letter spacing, so it doesn’t look like “dick.” pic.twitter.com/oiVj3KV5xJ
pbakaus Now that AMP has launched, how could life look like after AMP, fixing the web at large? Help me figure it out: paulbakaus.com/2016/02/26/lif…
@mhausenblas @github I have an Issue that 404s for me, but is clearly there and has an ID. No answer so far. twitter.com/tomayac/status…
tkadlec Pitching the idea of Content Performance Policies as a standardized alternative to AMP. timkadlec.com/2016/02/a-stan…
~RT @JohnMu: [P]ost about Search Console reports […plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/p…X2 // If you’ve gon@AMPhtmlml but Search Console doesn’t “see” it.
miha_jlo Here we have Facebook estimating probability of transitioning from “relationship” to “single” in 60 days #wsdm2016 pic.twitter.com/n5KcswW51D
Friendly request for @AMPhtml to allow for <base> (developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HT…) in AMP ⚡ documents: github.com/ampproject/amp…
Attached please find my résümก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ xkcd.com/1647/ (CC: @HeidiTworek) #diacritics #xkcd
JigsawTeam Today @sundarpichai announced the expansion of Shield. We use Google infrastructure to defend independent news sites goo.gl/jhhU2e
@hfmuehleisen @CWInl Woohoo! Gefeliciteerd!!!1!
GoogleDesign Meet Resizer: a dynamic resource for testing out your responsive UI g.co/design/resizer… #materialdesign pic.twitter.com/20xIiWz30Y
@github Seems like my repo github.com/tomayac/wikipe… is experiencing a challenge: issue 1 & silky’s fork aren’t shown. pic.twitter.com/Y3Odc4I0vT
mediagalleries #BreakingNews candidate via @WikiLiveMon: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lus…. Media gallery: pic.twitter.com/yqJqysTlH1
@pantojacoder Have you seen docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…? It’s made with the Wikipedia Tools twitter.com/tomayac/status…. pic.twitter.com/tYuNT1IiG6
Thanks to @pantojacoder, pageviews.js (JS client lib for the Wikipedia Pageviews API) is now available on @bower: github.com/tomayac/pagevi….
DasSurma And it’s a proper progressive web app with offline and everything. Source code link at the bottom of the page.
twitter.com/aerotwist/stat…
igrigorik Delivering Fast and Light Applications with (new) Save-Data header: bit.ly/1Oqgreo - shipping in Chrome 49! pic.twitter.com/pqnExY6CjA
newsycombinator PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent’s DHT networgithub.com/lmatteis/peer-…0V
@rauschma We started thinking about it more concretely recently, mostly in the context of retailers. DM me if interested.
WikiEval Did you know about @Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheets? Just released by @tomayac github.com/tomayac/wikipe… via @WikiResearch #toolsDay
Started triaging, dealing with, & assigning issues raised for the @wikidata Primary Sources Tool. Sorry for the long turn-around time :-/
domenic Pretty sweet library for easily and safely creating HTML elements using tagged template strings: github.com/straker/html-t…
@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda I see—An advanced mode could give the user full expressive freedom, whereas a basic mode could cover public queries.
@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda Yepp, looking doable. Need to still figure out the OAuth details, but only after the weekend ;-)
The “Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets” paper has been published on my @googleresearch profile: research.google.com/pubs/pub44817.… (PDF→red icon)
@ReaderMeter @yuvipanda Cool—I’ll have a look if it quarry.wmflabs.orgk) can be done. As long as it’s an HTTP interface it should work.
danbri From my more numerate colleagues: sites.google.com/site/statistic… - statistics addon for google spreadsheets
@JohnMu I’ve an 11-yo blog w/ legacy (X)HTML à la <img src=”ex.gif” align=”left”/>. AMPlifying it is still ongoing: amp.tomayac.com
paul_irish TIL: the `let` keyword provides such a big upgrade for the classic for-loop & closure problem. pic.twitter.com/MLiIz5YRac
Noticing that typically @AMPhtml pages are island w/ all internal links to non-AMP pages (e.g. @guardian amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb…). Intended?
philwalton I just released a new library called autotrack for analytics.js. You should try it if you use GA on your websites googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2016/02/introd…
vambenepe The Google Cloud Vision API is now accessible to everyone googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google… How can you use image content detection for your apps?
pmika @abursuc Yes, this post fails to mention that many other talented individuals will be leaving the company.
Classic “off by one” error: “From Freebase to Wikidata” rather than the opposite :-) twitter.com/wikidata/statu…
Impressive Amazon dataset jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/li… I wonder what @felipehoffa can make out of it; @ftrain capitulated newrepublic.com/article/129026…
@Paul_Kinlan Out of pure interest, how much did you pay? It’s crazy expensive for hobbyists with @1and1: 1and1.com/ssl-certificate
RubenVerborgh I posted a review on the #dokieli paper by @csarven, @rhiaro, @SoerenAuer, and @timberners_lee: csarven.ca/dokieli#i-2016… I like the openness!
jure How to increase Wikipedia article creation rate by 3x across different languages #www2016 cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pu…
@aaranged Let me know your power user feature requests :-)
aaranged Bears RTing: Wikipedia Tools for Google Sheets bit.ly/24ak2Jc Pictured WIKIPAGEVIEWS function: +1 @tomayac! pic.twitter.com/9BpuUDEiQK
.@aaranged Thanks for the RT :-) Combined with the charting capability in Spreadsheets, the true power is unleashed: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
.@tim_cook’s response to the @FBI’s data access request following the 2015 San Bernardino attack: apple.com/customer-lette…
Impressive tresaure trove of @npmjs scripts to automate the website build process: css-tricks.com/why-npm-script…. Covers JS, CSS, images,…
Responsive email framework & mark-up language mjml.io Sad that this is needed, but then there’s this medium.com/@hteumeuleu/su…
Catalogablog Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets by Thomas Steiner. Tools available as open-source on GitHub arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02506…
stilkov “The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people” – everything’s fine, nothing to see herarstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/…HW
jure Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes #www2016
cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pu…
Updated the Wikipedia Tools chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…. New funcs: WIKIARTICLESAROUND, WIKICOMMONSLINK, WIKICATEGORIES. pic.twitter.com/2tpf4Vbp6H
@pchampin The best post-intro to read after getting one’s hands dirty with Promises: pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-…
WIKICATEGORYMEMBERS(“en:Category:US presidential candidates, 2016”), WIKIPAGEVIEWS(), ready: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… pic.twitter.com/pQXUYrEe2C
Thanks for the feature request :-) twitter.com/ReaderMeter/st…
And because #iLoveFS, the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets are open-sourced on GitHub github.com/tomayac/wikipe… pic.twitter.com/X91M4U2y67
Google Apps Add-Ons are thoroughly reviewed—a lengthy but worthwhile process: here the@wikidataA -FACTS() func docs.pic.twitter.com/llGcsdCRfJJ
The Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets are now available as an official Sheets Add-On: chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…. pic.twitter.com/MKAEozdE4T
@RubenVerborgh You should make a PR to add <marquee> support for excessively long paper titles… CC@pchampinin
@kdzwinel @Paul_Kinlan Hmm, not sure I understand the rationale… Even navigator.geolocation is opt-in & IMHO doesn’t need to be HTTPS-only.
@jerem (i) It’s probably a silo on purpose and (ii), they’re therefore not using SFSafariViewController (background macstories.net/stories/ios-9-…)
@kdzwinel Soon navigator.geolocation as of codereview.chromium.org/1530403002/
Impressive use of the experimental CSS “perspective” property (developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CS…) in this @smashingmag demo: codepen.io/NobodyRocks/pe…
wsREST Now that our Program Chair is settled and full of great experts (ws-rest.org/2016/organizat…), consider writing a paper: ws-rest.org/2016/call-for-…
stilkov Doubts about that GitHub study and the way it was presented: slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/bef…
Paper by Mazières & Kohler “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”: scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/paper… (PDF). Background story: vox.com/2014/11/21/725…
From UIWebView to WKWebView to SFSafariViewController—progress of#iOSS embedded Web views:macstories.net/stories/ios-9-…e &developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww…4
ReaderMeter Elsevier reports a 99% drop in visible traffic from Wikipedia since we switched to HTTPS. This is how we’ll fix this meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…
@hypoalex Sorry, all I can do is point you to google.com/accounts/recov….
Current Twitter power search: twitter.com/search?f=tweet… #YahooLabs
Cool, they made the gravity waves available as a ringtone: podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2016/… [mp3] twitter.com/sundarpichai/s…
jaffathecake Chrome is changing how it loads stylesheets, allowing you to load & apply CSS progressively
jakearchibald.com/2016/link-in-b…
thewikipedian New blog post-@Twitterr’s challenges and@Wikipediaa’s aren’t all that different:bit.ly/20Rrt5zZ#RIPTwitterr
@pmika Yahoo! Labs London closing? :-O twitter.com/pmika/status/6…
JoshConstine Twitter plans to fix the @ reply canoe character count and .@ problems it says are inhibiting growth techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/twi…
@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…
~Sci-Hub is an online repo & Web service for reading scientific articles that bypasses paywalls.-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hubb (via@IgorBrigadirr)
“Things don’t happen ‘for a reason,’ but you can find purpose and meaning in things that do happen.”-@jhuberr (viaplus.google.com/u/0/+JeffHuber…D)
Twitter’s long rumored “show me important tweets first” feature’s live blog.twitter.com/2016/never-mis… Seems like turning it on has no effect on API
mahemoff Wow, Opera looks set to be acquired recode.net/2016/02/09/ope…
@todrobbins @edsu Ah, here you go, gentlemen: motherboard.vice.com/read/i-want-th… :-)
@todrobbins @edsu Yepp, same here for @1and1, apparently there is no obvious way to register Punycode or emoji domains for the mere mortals…
@todrobbins @edsu Can’t resolve 💣.com ;-) Wikipedia Tools are in final review for official add-on, soon easier to install!
ph_singer Preprint of #www2016 poster “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia” /w @trovdimi @mstrohm philippsinger.info/2016_www2016_l…
New paper “Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets” arxiv.org/abs/1602.02506 Add some =WIKI* magic to your sheets. pic.twitter.com/vG2xFzGgrv
#TIL Opening a PDF w/ evil Type 3 fonts and exporting the PDF to PDF w/ Preview automagically converts Type 3 fonts to TrueType. @www2016ca
jeroenbosman @tomayac Care to share your research tool usage by taking this survey? innoscholcomm.typeform.com/to/Csvr7b?sour… RT=nice pic.twitter.com/ziMnR7eGkY
firstdraftnews Take our new geolocation challenge and and test your verification skills with online maps firstdraftnews.com/resource/test-… pic.twitter.com/uFGF4jrzhM
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.
IgorBrigadir Vocal minority “Power Users” already use other tools. The important thing to keep access to is the API. I’ll #RIPTwitter when the API goes.
johl „If MediaWiki was re-built from scratch in 2016, what would be different about its software architecture?” quora.com/If-Wikipedia-M…
nicolastorzec Utilities that provide functions to enrich Google Spreadsheets’ sheets with Wikipedia data, by @tomayac: github.com/tomayac/wikipe…
@benestar_wm I’ve an accepted short paper on Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets that has a WIKIDATAFACTS func: lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki….
haoel The right way process JavaScript exception. pic.twitter.com/sMXqHICudI
mathias On Facebook, everybody is connected to everyone else by only 3.46 people: research.facebook.com/blog/three-and… pic.twitter.com/jwO0x6LF6Y
Great post by @pistenprinz on how @trivago managed to refactor their #CSS: tech.trivago.com/2016/02/02/lar… Be sure to check the links to the tools!
Wikipedia Randall Munroe at xkcd.com reminds us to read list of common misconceptions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c… pic.twitter.com/VE6jUiSsfH
PHDcomics How to write an abstract phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1… pic.twitter.com/GqerpbCKtl
Hacking @AMPhtml on my blog amp.tomayac.com. Not quite valid #AMP yet, but noticing a huge speed increase..pic.twitter.com/nXygyhRhJPJP
ebidel Wrote an article on URLSearchParams, my new fave. So useful! Gets rid of boilerplate code for working with a URL. developers.google.com/web/updates/20…
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.