Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

April 2016

RT @taylorhughes: Also there’s an enormous set of amazing, undocumented parameters for this service: https://t.co/fJ5zYT34J5 https://t.co/7…

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

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Academic paper pirate hub Sci-Hub’s access logs analyzed: https://t.co/BWP27KR0xw (via @danbri)

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RT @mahemoff: The dark side of front-end performance. @mathias on JS timing attacks https://t.co/3IWuAIjPS3 via HN

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RT @WikiResearch: Wikipedia Clickstream data refreshed: 25m (referer,resource) pairs from 7bn webrequests https://t.co/7zJkBlwjDA https://t…

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

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RT @ingmarweber: Slides & material from Computational Social Science tutorial at @www2016ca now online: https://t.co/uXxeZ6FMOm w/ @mstrohm…

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Two great posts: ideal HTTP performance by @mnot https://t.co/ThLz0kvKHf and caching best practices by @jaffathecake https://t.co/PxtEBgaAco

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Unique devices data now avail for Wikimedia projects—Thanks to marcelrf in pageviews.js, too https://t.co/6sYXM7nolL https://t.co/FCLDxkHFtg

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RT @bobdc: New blog entry: Playing with a proximity beacon.” https://t.co/Ov8LDy9fif

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, 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

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@rauschma Use the Crop Sheets add-on to crop automatically: https://t.co/n0sOtx6eYn

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@natadimou RML.io needs a mobile site :-) Use flexbox, super easy to create a responsive design: https://t.co/LdeutfANeM

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@natadimou Congratulations :-) Happy for you!

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These spikes are what led to the development of @WikiLiveMon and @mediagalleries: https://t.co/WVQACGIbpP [PDF] https://t.co/MIL0qm520s

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Added namespace support to Wikipedia Tools, e.g., German user pages (ns: 2) containing “bot”—https://t.co/ZGhEe0k0hf https://t.co/bxNL3f4NVg

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RT @sw12: Random shout out to https://t.co/kW80ex0x2S — brilliant site, thank you to all who made and maintain it. https://t.co/xZF47LLPBA

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

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

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RT @miha_jlo: Here are slides of my recent talk at @Microposts2016 at #www2016 on Tumblr audience targeting https://t.co/hiuArKYp5p

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The tweet network around the #WWW2016 hashtag visualized via NodeXL: https://t.co/cRJgj5zBsz. https://t.co/q5XxLHIH74

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Freeing this old #WWW2014 banana moment pic from the walled garden of Facebook for https://t.co/IsxCeAJGRm to work. https://t.co/xuCov9suHv

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Dug out the paper https://t.co/WFcT84m75d and slides https://t.co/3PIRS0ufw7 mentioned in @mzurko’s #WWW2016 talk on SSL warnings in Chrome.

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RT @addyosmani: Preview of <link rel=”serviceworker”> in Chrome. Installs a Service Worker declaratively in a document 🔥 https://t.co/Vv4xG…

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RT @niggi: When The Times introduced a paywall, number of people dropped by 98.7%, yet the switch was a huge financial success. https://t.c…

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@cgutteridge @mnot @www2016ca Sounds great, apart from user experience, speed also matters. https://t.co/UJZmYacHrE

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

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RT @igrigorik: <link rel=preload> is now in stable! some examples to get you started: https://t.co/QjHPfEXTDk https://t.co/zzW7fBgqSU

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@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 . ðŸpic.twitter.com/3CLgPA7kEmkEm

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A different kind of Freebase to Wikidata migration story for concept tagging at @ylenews: https://t.co/TgPVanRNe1 (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

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“Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation”—https://t.co/FY6t1ThAbW [PDF] Wikipedia GapFinder: https://t.co/bK6hgbqZrc #WWW2016

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Strong +1. Releasing one’s data (whenever possible, not always an option) should be a requirement. #WWW2016 https://t.co/BRPfoTamzx

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Slides from our #WWW2016 paper “From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration”: https://t.co/01358kZdqf https://t.co/cys0X7kRlJ

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Learning about the QWERTY effect hypothesis in a #WWW2016 paper by @dgarcia_eu et al.: https://t.co/t12uDNHJ8u [PDF] https://t.co/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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RT @WikiResearch: We’re now publishing real-time @Wikipedia #performance data by region (powered by @grafana)
https://t.co/si5r8dtEVK https…

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RT @bkeegan: Today in entirely predictable consequences of Streisand Effect: https://t.co/0idakOXcVO https://t.co/xACIHWBt8v

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RT @mounialalmas: The slides as presented by Ke Zhou on #www2016 Predicting Pre-click Quality for Native Ads #adpreference #adquality https…

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@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!

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Google booth demo: (i) unfiltered.news/about.html Things the world’s reporting on; (iiuproxy.orgL2 Anti censorship proxy.

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RT @WikiEval: How painful it is to run a query to for Wikimedia metrics? Learn how do it all in Google spreadsheet. |by @tomayac https://t.…

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“As a security person, I [@mzurko] want people to stop using insecure languages like C.” #WWW2016 https://t.co/ikGbNEZOKl

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

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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 gra #WWW2016

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“Tracking the Trackers”—interesting privacy-related paper at #WWW2016. https://t.co/zi6YPCb3Ck

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

https://t.co/8E…

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@subhapa Check out the writable demo that you can freely modify: https://t.co/vGxExMuJJr. Click Add-ons→Wikipedia Tools→Show documentation.

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

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Thanks :-) Combined w/ @sklaporte’s https://t.co/k0fi7tMmOD it’s absolutely spherical. +1, needs links & iOS fixing. https://t.co/EZ8vveyms5

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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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@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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Wikipedia Screensaver from my #WikiWorkshop2016 talk https://t.co/EnifHAugGY Best viewed on desktop browser https://t.co/wbCQyMYShb #WWW2016

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Slides for my Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets paper at #WikiWorkshop2016 at #WWW2016 https://t.co/W9aCpk51pN https://t.co/thaTTrGTIc

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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.

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@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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RT @dirkahlers: The #www2016 Proceedings & Companion are online: https://t.co/hasYCFFmeS (workshops in the companion https://t.co/1U3ORhg3aâ…

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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: https://t.co/CK96wme2fI. 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? https://t.co/srLtLOzMKo

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RT @agektmr: Just tried the Vibration API on Chrome. This is rad as a physical feedback for web apps! https://t.co/L4EQAWmNNw

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Someone called bloodfire91 on GitHub just made my local reverse geocoder better: https://t.co/E4p66xuir7. Thank you :-)

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Great collection of free resources made by designers at Facebook: https://t.co/Uzq3MVD5zB

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

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RT @KingstonTime: I love how @jaffathecake is always on hand when a ServiceWorker post goes down. https://t.co/9lSql2l9wC Dev outreach +100

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WebTorrentApp Announcing WebTorrent Desktop webtorrent.io/desktop

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Seems like browsers should disallow Application Cache completely over HTTP (raises a warning only today on Chrome): https://t.co/NyUc123obh

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RT @informor: You keep using that emoji. I do not think it means what you think it means.
https://t.co/ya39Ym8Q1w (great work from @lorent…

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RT @ChromiumDev: The Background Sync API landed in Chrome 49 stable! 🔢 🔵🔃 Defer actions until the user has stable connectivity

https://t.…

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

https://t.co/3ybrFcRa9C 😻 Service Worker https…

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RT @addyosmani: @ChromiumDev Canary experiments w/support for Visual Viewport API: https://t.co/cMzcLBmXNU props of visual viewport https:/…

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RT @mahemoff: “HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO” acc to to Google. Nothing to hold you back. https://t.co/FytNg2ASaA

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RT @tylermcginnis33: If you’re new to CSS and overwhelmed with all the selectors, learn what’s used most first. https://t.co/tIG8OZnP9d htt…

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The mentioned API catalog can be found here: https://t.co/L9Imjz6Uje. Pleased w/ the new MicroSoftâ„¢ :-) Well done! https://t.co/QOqTaDd9cu

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RT @umaar: #DevTools: Line Level Profiling - Find out how long a piece of JavaScript took to execute: https://t.co/se7xApfYVN https://t.co/…

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