Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

April 2016

taylorhughes Also there’s an enormous set of amazing, undocumented parameters for this service: stackoverflow.com/questions/2514… twitter.com/igrigorik/stat…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 5:58 PM, Apr 30th, 2016 via Echofon)

igrigorik a little known “power feature” of Google App Engine.. image resizing and cropping: bit.ly/1N4TYKq - good stuff.

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 5:52 PM, Apr 30th, 2016 via Echofon)

Academic paper pirate hub Sci-Hub’s access logs analyzed: sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/w… (via @danbri)

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mahemoff The dark side of front-end performance. @mathias on JS timing attacks dev.opera.com/blog/timing-at… via HN

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WikiResearch Wikipedia Clickstream data refreshed: 25m (referer,resource) pairs from 7bn webrequests dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig… pic.twitter.com/lpv6lYLvkY

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 9:24 AM, Apr 29th, 2016 via Echofon)

ReaderMeter Article recommendations: Find missing content across over 80K @Wikipedia language pairs recommend.wmflabs.org pic.twitter.com/KAyeql5Crj

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:35 PM, Apr 27th, 2016 via Echofon)

ingmarweber Slides & material from Computational Social Science tutorial at @www2016ca now online: sites.google.com/site/csswwwtut… w/ @mstrohm @lajello @clauwa

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:29 PM, Apr 27th, 2016 via Echofon)

Two great posts: ideal HTTP performance by @mnot mnot.net/blog/2016/04/2… and caching best practices by @jaffathecake jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-b…

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Unique devices data now avail for Wikimedia projects—Thanks to marcelrf in pageviews.js, toogithub.com/tomayac/pagevi…Ltwitter.com/WikiResearch/s…g

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bobdc New blog entry: Playing with a proximity beacon.” snee.com/bobdc.blog/201…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:35 PM, Apr 26th, 2016 via Twitter Web Client)

, too: telling (and offering to fix it) a blind coder that what through a screen reader reads [A] [B] to a seeing user looks like [AB].

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jaffathecake I get this in my head every time I call a group of people “guys” youtu.be/Im3Zj9ZBsyU

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:34 AM, Apr 25th, 2016 via Echofon)

@natadimou RML.io needs a mobile site :-) Use flexbox, super easy to create a responsive design: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

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@natadimou Congratulations :-) Happy for you!

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Added namespace support to Wikipedia Tools, e.g., German user pages (ns: 2) containing “bot”-bit.ly/wikipedia-tool…fpic.twitter.com/bxNL3f4NVgg

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sw12 Random shout out to developer.mozilla.org — brilliant site, thank you to all who made and maintain it.pic.twitter.com/xZF47LLPBAA

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:18 PM, Apr 22nd, 2016 via Echofon)

IAugenstein “X wants to attend , thus would like their name on the paper”
On adding co-authors after paper acceptance goo.gl/2anpXF

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:58 PM, Apr 22nd, 2016 via Echofon)

@mickhinds Likewise responded to yours. Hope this helps. Great work you’re doing there with your company :-)

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kdzwinel 🖊 Notes from my recent research about animating on the web - SVG, CSS, Canvas.

github.com/kdzwinel/progr… pic.twitter.com/GZlIYhC6rh

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:00 AM, Apr 22nd, 2016 via Echofon)

miha_jlo Here are slides of my recent talk at @Microposts2016 at on Tumblr audience targeting slideshare.net/MihajloGrbovic…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:49 AM, Apr 22nd, 2016 via Echofon)

The tweet network around the hashtag visualized via NodeXL: nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Graph.as…. pic.twitter.com/q5XxLHIH74

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Freeing this old banana moment pic from the walled garden of Facebook for tomayac.com/tweets/search?… to work. pic.twitter.com/xuCov9suHv

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Dug out the paper static.googleusercontent.com/media/research… and slides docs.google.com/presentation/d… mentioned in @mzurko’s talk on SSL warnings in Chrome.

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addyosmani Preview of <link rel=”serviceworker”> in Chrome. Installs a Service Worker declaratively in a document 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Vv4xGU2I6x

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:03 PM, Apr 20th, 2016 via Echofon)

niggi When The Times introduced a paywall, number of people dropped by 98.7%, yet the switch was a huge financial success. medium.com/fluxx-studio-n…

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 7:58 PM, Apr 20th, 2016 via Echofon)

@cgutteridge @mnot @www2016ca Sounds great, apart from user experience, speed also matters. twitter.com/tomayac/status…

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@bkeegan Congratulations on the new endeavor! Sounds great :-)

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igrigorik <link rel=preload> is now in stable! some examples to get you started: w3c.github.io/preload/#use-c… twitter.com/ChromiumDev/st…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:17 PM, Apr 19th, 2016 via Echofon)

@www2016ca Any chance you could fix the anchor IDs in the proceedings? ToC links don’t work, as all id attributes look like id=”1”. Merci!

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Last minute surprise banana moment with @natadimou on the way back from . 🍌 pic.twitter.com/3CLgPA7kEm

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timbray Hjson, the Human JSON - hjson.org

via Fenix for Android (retweeted on 2:15 PM, Apr 16th, 2016 via Echofon)

A different kind of Freebase to Wikidata migration story for concept tagging at @ylenews: wikimedia.fi/2016/04/15/yle… (via @nightrose)

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dret KISS semantics: why schema.org is successful and easy to use: lightweight and useful semantics. pic.twitter.com/u1aqP4mBTD

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:42 PM, Apr 15th, 2016 via Echofon)

“Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation”-www2016.net/proceedings/pr…W [PDF] Wikipedia GapFinder:recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommendc6

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cgutteridge Meet Rube. blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2016/0… @mzurko @tomayac @codenamedmitri (possibly a new Dilbert character?)

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 5:30 PM, Apr 15th, 2016 via Twitter Web Client)

Strong +1. Releasing one’s data (whenever possible, not always an option) should be a requirement. twitter.com/halani/status/…

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Slides from our paper “From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration”: bit.ly/freebase-to-wi… pic.twitter.com/cys0X7kRlJ

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Learning about the QWERTY effect hypothesis in a paper by @dgarcia_eu et al.: www2016.net/proceedings/pr… [PDF] pic.twitter.com/N3uhhykoWX

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Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, & Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes by @srijankedia et al. cs.umd.edu/~srijan/hoax/

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WikiResearch We’re now publishing real-time @Wikipedia data by region (powered by @grafana)
grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/n… pic.twitter.com/ScFkQc1xig

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 6:24 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

bkeegan Today in entirely predictable consequences of Streisand Effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand… twitter.com/_cingraham/sta…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 6:23 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

mounialalmas The slides as presented by Ke Zhou on Predicting Pre-click Quality for Native Ads slideshare.net/mounialalmas/p…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:20 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

@mzurko It may obviously be true in (the majority of) personal cases, but it has become too much of a general cliché… Thanks for the 👌talk!

via Echofon in reply to mzurko

Google booth demo: (i) unfiltered.news/about.html Things the world’s reporting on; (ii) uproxy.org Anti censorship proxy.

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WikiEval How painful it is to run a query to for Wikimedia metrics? Learn how do it all in Google spreadsheet. |by @tomayac github.com/tomayac/wikipe…

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“As a security person, I [@mzurko] want people to stop using insecure languages like C.” twitter.com/fabien_gandon/…

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sw12 Excellent list of Progressive Web Apps: pwa.rocks. Suggestions welcome!
Thank you @ODevRel. pic.twitter.com/WTJsjTjc94

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:19 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

ChromiumDev Web Page Test enables you to assess your site’s performance. Whose page loaded first? goo.gl/n4onK9 pic.twitter.com/DH7XQrXBYc

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Can we stop calling the cliché inexperienced Web user “our mom” or “our grandma”?

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sympap TrackMeOrNot: flexible control of web tracking www2016.net/proceedings/pr… pic.twitter.com/o9to8BwsjL

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:51 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

“Tracking the Trackers”—interesting privacy-related paper at6.twitter.com/sympap/status/…k

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juliaferraioli While no one likes an outage, this post-mortem makes me pretty proud to have worked with the GCP team.

status.cloud.google.com/incident/compu…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 3:46 PM, Apr 14th, 2016 via Echofon)

@subhapa Check out the writable demo that you can freely modify: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…. Click Add-ons→Wikipedia Tools→Show documentation.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to subhapa

IgorBrigadir So much fun: Mess with a Neural Net Interactively in your Browser! playground.tensorflow.org cc @explorables pic.twitter.com/YUrmyKzG59

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:52 PM, Apr 13th, 2016 via Echofon)

Thanks :-) Combined w/ @sklaporte’s listen.hatnote.com it’s absolutely spherical. +1, needs links & iOS fixing. twitter.com/rtroncy/status…

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WikiEval Running Wikimedia queries is cumbersome? Here’s something that could do all in a Google spreadsheet: github.com/tomayac/wikipe… | @ReaderMeter

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@sympap @seenco @informor @snow_workshop Sorry, missed the talk due to involvement. Are the slides available somewhere?

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laroyo @tomayac nice talk, useful links to services using bit.ly/wiki-firehose at snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop20…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:06 AM, Apr 13th, 2016 via Echofon)

@mariadelmas A mi em passava sovint que els Catalans tenien l’instinct de respondre en espanyol tot i que jo els hi parlava amb català…

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Slides from my Wikipedia & Wikidata Firehose talk at at : bit.ly/wiki-firehose pic.twitter.com/wbCQyMYShb

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@aemkei It works, but maybe at 10fps on iPhone 6s. Too many serial DOM operations it seems. Nevertheless cool stuff :-)

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igrigorik how to determine dominant colors for image placeholders: bit.ly/1Tx6mnE - nice tutorial.

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:34 PM, Apr 11th, 2016 via Echofon)

@aemkei Cool stuff! Runs a lot less smoothly on mobile than in pic.twitter.com/bf5KlXLV7G, do you know why? Also: “A<del>n</del> water” ;-)

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dirkahlers The Proceedings & Companion are online: www2016.net/proceedings/ (workshops in the companion www2016.net/proceedings/fo…) @www2016ca

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:19 PM, Apr 11th, 2016 via Echofon)

Just in time for & brought back @mediagalleries (accompanies @WikiLiveMon), which was down after a server update.

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Solving ReCaptcha w/ reverse image search: blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/m…. Clever, but fixed by now after disclosure. (via @MarcosBL @BorjaBalle)

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@kdzwinel Top-ace, this one runs at 60fps. Amazing work and dedication to detail :-)

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@kdzwinel It worked fine (and smoothly) on desktop, but didn’t animate at all on iOS. Intended? rawgit.com/kdzwinel/progr…

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agektmr Just tried the Vibration API on Chrome. This is rad as a physical feedback for web apps! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

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Someone called bloodfire91 on GitHub just made my local reverse geocoder better: github.com/tomayac/local-…. Thank you :-)

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Great collection of free resources made by designers at Facebook: facebook.github.io/design/index.h…

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@csarven @pietercolpaert Well, not necessarily payload-wise…

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KingstonTime I love how @jaffathecake is always on hand when a ServiceWorker post goes down. scirra.com/blog/ashley/27… Dev outreach +100

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:24 AM, Apr 7th, 2016 via Echofon)

WebTorrentApp Announcing WebTorrent Desktop webtorrent.io/desktop

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 2:53 AM, Apr 7th, 2016 via Echofon)

Seems like browsers should disallow Application Cache completely over HTTP (raises a warning only today on Chrome): twitter.com/domenic/status…

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informor You keep using that emoji. I do not think it means what you think it means.
grouplens.org/blog/investiga… (great work from @lorenterveen @bhecht)

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:36 AM, Apr 7th, 2016 via Echofon)

ChromiumDev The Background Sync API landed in Chrome 49 stable! 📢 📵🔃 Defer actions until the user has stable connectivity

developers.google.com/web/updates/20… ~ao

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ChromiumDev Learn how to build your 1st Progressive Web App in our free online codelab

codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/your-… 😻 Service Worker pic.twitter.com/UV3gnVu3aT

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 3:12 PM, Apr 6th, 2016 via Echofon)

addyosmani @ChromiumDev Canary experiments w/support for Visual Viewport API: github.com/WICG/ViewportA… props of visual viewport pic.twitter.com/jZOwcOGYXZ

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:27 PM, Apr 6th, 2016 via Echofon)

mahemoff “HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO” acc to to Google. Nothing to hold you back. plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMuell…

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steveworkman HTTPS is Hard blog.yell.com/2016/03/https-…

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tylermcginnis If you’re new to CSS and overwhelmed with all the selectors, learn what’s used most first. developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsof… pic.twitter.com/bFciZHSuni

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:45 AM, Apr 5th, 2016 via Echofon)

The mentioned API catalog can be found here: developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…. Pleased w/ the new MicroSoft™ :-) Well done! twitter.com/SampsonMSFT/st…

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umaar : Line Level Profiling - Find out how long a piece of JavaScript took to execute: umaar.com/dev-tips/99-li… pic.twitter.com/xcieiHCzQo

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:32 AM, Apr 5th, 2016 via Echofon)

WikiLiveMon Candidate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p… [Edits: 5, Editors: 3, Langs: 2, Stories: twitter.com/OccupyCoscienz…]

via Wikipedia Live Monitor (retweeted on 7:43 PM, Apr 4th, 2016 via Twitter for iPhone)