Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

March 2016

RT @jaffathecake: Opera’s plea to Apple: stop enforcing a browser monopoly on iOS https://t.co/ksLByCkY4i

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Apple have released iOS 9.3.1 that fixes the link bug. Ironically enough froze when clicking https://t.co/F9g9UqQpEL https://t.co/fIWN202wDl

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Apple releases Safari Technology Preview https://t.co/tUugYQFQDq

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Behind the scenes by @NatAndLo on how the new Google voice was made (and an intro to speech synthesis) https://t.co/uAKjvfIxrU (via @JohnMu)

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RT @nicolastorzec: Google adds share feature to Knowledge Graph cards. https://t.co/S4h4EqnqEE

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RT @wesbos: 🔥Terminal Tip: Use curly brackets to speed up the creation of multiple files with similar names: https://t.co/yYMkknvFoV

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RT @ChromiumDev: Intel Edison + physical web + web bluetooth used together for a full web-based IoT experience

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djweitzner Nice piece by @schneierblog “Your iPhone just got a lot less secure, and the FBI is to blame” wpo.st/TtJQ1

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RT @sebabenz: Blogged: How to avoid common mistakes when publishing Accelerated Mobile Pages https://t.co/8ScR8d3NGb

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RT @IgorBrigadir: So >140 character Tweets are finally here! (Also: Think of the dataset this will generate!) https://t.co/G3cbvc8HKr https…

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aaranged Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You’ve Never Heard Of - bzfd.it/1UWZ5NE @mat

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You’re technically correct. https://t.co/26pZ3QQIPR

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Eddystone Beacon Technology & the Physical Web: https://t.co/4584prShex Detailed article on “what happens on the wire”. (via @danbri @bobdc)

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andrewsu Map view is awesome for . eg show all lighthouses & waterfalls in US tinyurl.com/zwz96dd pic.twitter.com/J14srWXhbe

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RT @ReaderMeter: “The guide I wish I had read about a decade ago when I migrated into community work with Wikipedia” — @SuePGardner https:…

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damiano10 Google Cloud Speech API cloud.google.com/speech/

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.@borismus While IMPORTHTML is amazing, for that use case check out the Wikipedia Tools: https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV. https://t.co/8T1FYQURn1

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wsREST Submit your Web API work now! WS-REST submissions will be published by Springer in LNCS. Deadline extended to 30 March 2016.

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Honored to be one of them :-) Looking forward to the workshop! https://t.co/j8WHx4sx75

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kdzwinel We just started serving @brainly style guide over HTTPS to our 60M users. The biggest win? HTTP2! pic.twitter.com/dc7SC3sVds

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RT @Rich_Harris: JS PEOPLE: stop going in circles about this npm thing. The solution is very straightforward https://t.co/wbXN4kchZP

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Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta! https://t.co/NwuYuC6KfM

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@kdzwinel Agree. PSI is still a bit behind, tho. For example, I had to “-webkit-“-prefix flexbox to make it appear right, but getting there…

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Incredibly sad & fascinating at the same time—@Wikidata item Q23365300 holds structured data on Brussels bombings 😢. https://t.co/7rOUbLIifj

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RT @datenjournalist: “A Google Spreadsheets add-on that makes working with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata a joy“ by @tomayac https://t.co…

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@jsalsman (Delayed due to offline vacation) Looks promising; as the authors state, naive matching reveals poor results. Heuristics needed.

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@jsalsman (Delay due to offline vacation) They use the Wikipedia API internally, so the results are exactly the same and it should all work.

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@kdzwinel (Delayed due to offline vacation) It uses headless WebKit internally (can’t say more 😶), so supports <picture> once WebKit does…

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RT @pantojacoder: #Wikipedia’s PageviewAPI at work. See pageviews in Spanish versus Portuguese wikipedia https://t.co/ZSc1xTIX0S (uses @tom…

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RT @html5test: Web platform support for search engines:
Googlebot https://t.co/zQix0dBRhY and https://t.co/0RX8hmnI42

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RT @Paul_Kinlan: Web platform support for each Search Engine is unknown https://t.co/LImLHxqvLf is a great example. calling @caniuse and @h…

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~RT @jermainkaminski: @tomayac [C]ool paper on Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets. Like the usage scenarios. // https://t.co/g24rrdY4vv

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RT @maxlath: @tomayac I quite like level.js for that job https://t.co/WZ3cQ9YEW6 as it opens the door to all levelup goodies :) https://t.c…

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RT @nicolastorzec: Longer read on the Wikimedia Knowledge Engine affair: https://t.co/blrgXP2z1m

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An asynchronous JavaScript client-side storage API w/ the simplicity of localStorage but w/o its performance penalty mozilla.github.io/localForage/

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@mahemoff I use it to say I had to slightly adapt a tweet, but w/o changing its sense. Like in the mathematical “about”:
~42 = sense of life

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~RT @mahemoff: Google lets celebs & businesses post directly to search results https://t.co/WxA7Gm0LFi > Google Post—https://t.co/EGE2vOhObn

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@peputo ¡Enhorabuena, Señor Doctor!

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@JohnMu This should probably be cross-posted to the Webmaster Central blog (https://t.co/k6Iwzgbk7M) for archiving purposes. Great post!

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RT @JohnMu: I made a post with our compiled recommendations for JS sites / web-apps: https://t.co/3iwf7yziiG

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arkaitz Trump Twitterbot (@DeepDrumpf) uses AI to train itself on transcripts from Trump speeches csail.mit.edu/deepdrumpf

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RT @ReaderMeter: How to get real-time data from Wikipedia’s production DBs and export the results into a Google spreadsheet. https://t.co/3…

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@kdzwinel This sounds weird indeed. I have reached out to the person in charge internally and hope for an answer.

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@yuvipanda @ReaderMeter Carrying the discussion over to GitHub Issue #3: https://t.co/b756rJ7IBr. Thanks.

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@kdzwinel The best is its filter_third_party_resources: https://t.co/R2xU0siRnn, currently impossible in the UI, although I have a bug open…

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Quarry (quarry.wmflabs.org) is mighty: “Run SQL queries against Wikipedia & other databases from your browser” (& from Wikipedia Tools)

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@ReaderMeter @WikiResearch Is there a better way than scraping to translate from query_id (ID in URL) to qrun_id? https://t.co/ysYZgDy8vL

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.@Wikimedia analysts rejoice: Wikipedia Tools (https://t.co/nfplt2W8zZ) now has a WIKIQUARRY function. @WikiResearch https://t.co/W5ZXOnJpnu

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RT @Paul_Kinlan: https://t.co/9jHfYH1i9H - send your android screen to local machine. Amazing.

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RT @johnregehr: “Everything I did wrong as a professor” — yep!
https://t.co/gEBmeVVxw9

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@felipehoffa Cool! I saw a talk by @puf on @Firebase the other day. The three of us should talk. On my list of things to try out.

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@felipehoffa Thanks. Obviously aware of that. I thought maybe you had a shortcut to more realtime data. I use my https://t.co/nvHaTroKsK.

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@felipehoffa Cool stuff! What’s the lag time for pageviews in your Big Query table? How realtime-ish does it get?

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googleresearch Learn about some research aimed at bringing route planning to the next level - goo.gl/ja3AaT pic.twitter.com/3FTCz03Umg

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dret this is definitely much smaller than a regular person! m.xkcd.com/1650/ pic.twitter.com/MO2jfKGChW

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RT @felipehoffa: Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most pageviews on Wikipedia https://t.co/R5ntIiUSrY (playing with BigQuery and @wikidata,…

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RT @jimmy_wales: John Oliver on Donald Trump. The best thing you can do for the next 21 minutes. https://t.co/XAa8eT0u8f #MakeDonaldDrumpf…

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DROWN: Breaking TLS using SSLv2: https://t.co/mDIwYXWIbf [PDF]

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Thanks @pantojacoder for noticing a glitch in pageviews.js where getAggregatedPageviews didn’t allow ‘all-projects’: https://t.co/J10uTEOD00

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Turns out w/ all corner cases finding a Node.js app’s root is hard. @inxilpro’s App Root Path Module to the rescue: https://t.co/q7pzYVfMq0.

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