Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

May 2016

RT @tkurz: going to present the next level of Linked Media Fragments URI now at #lime216 #linkedmedia #ESWC2016 https://t.co/c9kOpoZRAU

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@cirzen Happy to have re-established your inner peace :-D
Pedantically yours,
Tom

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The #ES2015 101: https://t.co/uL6kAzbNeU. If you’re short on time, this is a great summary chapter. https://t.co/RalzivZPKC

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@cbpuschmann Just absolute edits w/o any qualitative evaluation of edits: arxiv.org/abs/1303.4702, arxiv.org/abs/1403.4289 Much future work…

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@cbpuschmann Sports events tend to have a “sudden” & “simple” result/ending, which makes them easy to add to a Wiki, whereas news develops.

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@cbpuschmann The simple explanation is people editing sports-related articles. The more complex “why” explanation: paper topic…

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RT @rem: “State of the gap” between native, hybrid and web (with progressive web apps). https://t.co/KSWEe3D0QP

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@olafhartig @jimkont @RubenVerborgh And now imagine the sh!t you get when you tell people you work at The Google ;-)

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Interesting paper on ad blocking and ad blocker detection: arxiv.org/abs/1605.05841 The cat & mouse game has started: pagefair.com

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AmpMe syncs music across iOS and/or Android devices incl. Bluetooth speakers to create one powerful virtual speaker: https://t.co/0RBEDBVcMK

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@RubenVerborgh @pietercolpaert For excessively long titles, there’s always <marquee> to the rescue! Pro-tip: LaTeX’s \em is HTML’s <blink>!

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@Telekom_hilft All fine, thanks. My point was that bloated websites are bad & that bloat is an issue in “developed” countries w/ LTE, too.

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@jrbsu Well, I guess @WikiLiveMon and @mediagalleries simply reflect people’s reactions to it :-)

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Good thoughts on how much Web is preserved in Progressive Web Apps: https://t.co/iiIVFmCuz1 (via https://t.co/xUgi94e8go)

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RT @dalmaer: I bet you will learn something from @grigs great piece on auto fill https://t.co/9y37o89khV

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RT @mahemoff: Google beats Oracle, open source turns out to be fair for reuse https://t.co/1bHfbRD8Lg

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RT @duhroach: Take a look at how WebP’s lossy image compression mode works, and why it gives you ~25% wins over JPG. #perfmatters
https://t…

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RT @borismus: Browsing Wikipedia, reimagined for WebVR: https://t.co/ooxNqw2G1p

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RT @fnielsen: “Page rank of scientific papers with citation in Wikidata — so far” https://t.co/3NRL2ornYe #wikicite

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Interesting browser fingerprinting library called fingerprintjs2: https://t.co/Gxaz2RohPw Be aware. (via @jure https://t.co/H0nA2IV61s)

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RT @ReaderMeter: The single, most important outcome of #WikiCite (thanks @tobias47n9e) https://t.co/1n9LXsgAIV

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Cool stuff, gotta love the <marquee> and <layer> rules… It’s been a while. https://t.co/0aUbHUuXSe

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I’ve exceeded my @deutschetelekom 6GB data plan. Mobile Web performance matters, everywhere—despite the LTE in the status bar, I’m on GPRS.

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RT @WikiEval: Data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in your Google spreadsheet. #LearningPattern by @subhapa on @tomayac’s browser addon: https://…

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The Fetch API is coming to Microsoft’s Edge browser, and full Service Worker support is anticipated: https://t.co/bfof3gNKUl +1!

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Cool demo of the Cloud Vision API—meet the Cloud Vision Explorer: https://t.co/Cc9CTOI1SC Accompanying blog post: https://t.co/qXloNGh7Tt

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Half-baked, but nevertheless welcome change to char counts in tweets: https://t.co/yEToiNgdIY Still situations where long handles suffer :-/

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somebitsLinks Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow: Taking the piss out of tech interviews dlvr.it/LNWmW5

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How to forecast demand with Google BigQuery, public datasets, and TensorFlow with the example of NYC taxi data. https://t.co/xPfNSCJrHV

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@csarasuagar Thanks for the pointer. Hmm, they say they have analyzed HTTP traffic. Too bad that YouTube has gone HTTPS by default. Strange.

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RT @aemkei: ☠

ES6 tagged template literals are the new eval:

`${alert`xss`}` https://t.co/KLxpSq1rbX

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@kwelle @PolarBearby what does the number in the right half of the bubbles mean? Usage in research publications?

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heikopaulheim From student report: “Another lesson we have learned is that real life problems can be really frustrating.” Non scholae sed vitae discimus!

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I wonder if we have stats for Lie-Wi?! https://t.co/zvfHAV0l07

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RT @whtouche: This is a great / quick read. There’s more to ES6 than just learning the syntax - new features === new possibilities https://…

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Honest and constructive feedback by Microsoft’s @codepo8 on #io16 (speaking as the private Chris): https://t.co/wPutV9OyeZ

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RT @wsREST: WS-REST 2016 is going to be an open conference, check out https://t.co/oQojtkpaoT for initial info. more details coming early n…

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RT @owencm: Tips and tricks to create great UX in Progressive Web Apps. https://t.co/BxDa49F5nK /cc @slightlylate @adityapunjani

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n2women These Girls Perfectly Explain Why Women Make Terrible Coders elitedai.ly/1svzMYv via @EliteDaily

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Lebab transpiles “legacy” JavaScript code from ES5 code to ES2015. It’s Babel reversed, what a genius name lebab.io/try-itb5m0

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@dalmaer Hah, genius minds read and tweet alike ;-) https://t.co/Qg4arFTPdk

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Interesting article by @martinfowler on refactoring options in JavaScript with code examples for each: https://t.co/gkVd7sD3Zk.

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RT @random_forests: New episode! Feeling good about this one / think the pacing is right. https://t.co/hCeDm71Mnm

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How rectangles with rounded corners became an elementary part of the Macintosh’s UI: https://t.co/4S8rDnPBG4. Great Steve Jobs anecdote.

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@TomDeNies Woohoo, congratulations! 🎔🎉

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RT @ChromiumDev: Practical advice from @notwaldorf after a year of building Web Components #io16

https://t.co/ooHH7MVr2R

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Wow, @subhapa has created an animated GIF that shows how to get started w/ Wikipedia Tools. https://t.co/7JEWtBpzKF https://t.co/S2j5iEnZC9

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Darn #JavaScript facepalm moment du jour: unknowingly had “$’” in my replacement string: “foo”.replace(/o/g, “u$’”); https://t.co/ndREPrc8ld

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RT @notwaldorf: I wrote down everything I know about how an emoji gets rendered! 💁✨🎨

https://t.co/35y2pEPi5W

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The best summary of the Google I/O announcements that you’ll read today: bonkersworld.net/confusement/ (via @lmanul) pic.twitter.com/ldjyUnHDGf

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@mahemoff My thoughts put into beautiful words…

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@rauschma It just feels like there should be a native flag, à la

const x = `indented
multiline string
${a ? a : b}`oneLineNoIndent;

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@rauschma Including a library for just this purpose seems overkill, I’m aware of https://t.co/emdycHx13D. How about directly .replace()-ing?

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@rauschma What’s your recommendation for removing line breaks/white space in
const x = `ex.org
?longKey=${longValue}`

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RT @MarkusLanthaler: Fantastic idea and a low hanging fruit to optimise the performance of websites “Cache-Control: immutable” https://t.co…

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arkaitz The Media Verification Assistant, a tool for verification of pictures, by @RevealEU reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/

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RT @simevidas: Looks like CSS hyphenation has finally arrived to Chromium https://t.co/bso6VYMCAm I’ll test once it lands in Canary https:/…

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Introducing the evolution of Google’s rich snippets—rich cards—initially for recipes and movies: https://t.co/ncr3OEyMOD. JSON-LD powered…

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@dret @apiacademy @mamund @mitraman Dream job surrounded by great people! Glückwunsch! Where will you be based?

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@jhuber Brilliant, Jeff. Thanks for pursuing this research and going a better way by finding purpose and meaning from things that happen!

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Brilliant, emotional, and inspiring commencement speech by @jhuber https://t.co/UISzvl2Q6y (Seriously, fuck cancer https://t.co/bIFArI8xuR)

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Late-night banana moment in Ghent with the great Team Belgium. 🍌pic.twitter.com/48PVHCTIqK8PVHCTIqK

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googleresearch What does one name an English language parsing model built with an open-source NN framework? goo.gl/VDL7VW pic.twitter.com/lHvJ9KA0bL

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RT @WikiResearch: Wikipedia Navigation Vectors: a semantic embedding of @Wikipedia learned from 370M sessions https://t.co/fySrgEBBYZ https…

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Hope it was informative & fun! The code’s open source https://t.co/0o9IxI6EMs, stand on my dwarf shoulders! #ITech16 https://t.co/4043zR1acT

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Common misconception: Google Sheets/Docs/Forms add-ons _don’t_ depend on Chrome, they run within Sheets/Docs/Forms: https://t.co/NlCy2ru3Q4.

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There’s now an on-wiki place to discuss Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (https://t.co/ZGhEe0k0hf)….

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sstephenson 12 years of progress? pic.twitter.com/uOQ7ine7LV

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newsycombinator The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe’s Thing Explainer [pdf] arxiv.org/abs/1605.02457

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Amazing hack that lets you play Oculus Rift games w/ a Google Cardboard viewer: riftcat.com/vridge Demo video: youtu.be/9slTcsF3pTE

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@RubenVerborgh Check this forum post for details: https://t.co/Ox2jaKH7f6

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lmatteis We did it guys! We’ve gone full circle: JVM in the browser - javapoly.com

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RT @chi2016: Full #chi2016 conference proceedings are up on the ACM Digital Library: https://t.co/VRPIHx2vHH

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@noffle Wouldn’t this render the tool useless if everyone writes their own template? Do you mean a fixed “head” README w/ flexible “body”?

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Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction: https://t.co/Vlc1HjF9EG Interesting mobile UX demo by @MSFTResearch

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@noffle Fair enough… I tend to use it like a curated https://t.co/ujtVmQxglW list. It could cold-start with just the repo owner themselves!?

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@noffle I use Contributors is to list/acknowledge people who’ve contributed by committing directly, raising non-trivial Issues & making PRs.

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@noffle Great idea! (i) Needs a link to an example README that was created through it. (ii) Consider a Contributors section. (iii) s/—/—/g.

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RT @feross: Getting Started With Node For Distributed Systems https://t.co/wowjOmmTJv

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q3k Idea from IRC: `Stalint` - a code linter that rewrites Git history to make it look like things were always great.

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Proposal for a mobile data plan API that would allow apps to act accordingly (e.g., SD video if <1GB): https://t.co/HO68g6Qt4N (via @sw12)

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RT @feross: Target=”_blank” — the most underestimated vulnerability ever https://t.co/kifMQb8hja

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RT @housecor: Handy: Update all npm packages to the latest version: 

npm install npm-check-updates -g
Then: ncu -u https://t.co/gKfPZMPR4D

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RT @JonathanDeamer: Easy creation of Wikipedia articles for under-represented languages via Wikidata https://t.co/wiU0rz6ykd #CSVconf https…

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RT @CrossrefOrg: ~100 edits to @Wikipedia per sec @joewass capturing Event Data from that stream #csvconf

https://t.co/pfVMR7hHOB https://…

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Came across ESDoc for documenting ES2015, the FAQ covers the obvious q. about the differences to JSDoc: https://t.co/VjL4V1rTcx #JavaScript

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Three out of four keynote speakers are women: csvconf.com/#keynotes. Way to go, @CSVConference organizers!

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From @JennyBryan’s #CSVConf talk https://t.co/qCxutpXNO3: the Google Sheets R API https://t.co/mJDT6lzpEX started w/ a weight-loss battle…

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@tomayac @csvconference Thanks everyone involved in the search, got the laptop sleeve back this morning :-)

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random_forests Working on lightweight tutorials to introduce developers to ML. goo.gl/KewA03

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Two iframe RPC libraries I came across recently: (i) https://t.co/EvUt1t88Pl by @izuzak, (ii) https://t.co/OJFGEt9dlV by my colleague Garan.

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Some iOS-specific mobile Web app optimization tips for a greater user experience on Apple devices by @afterpad: https://t.co/y4aNNoDu7R

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@CSVConference My gray 15 inch laptop sleeve w/ docs went MIA :-( If anyone has a pointer, that’d be great! Thanks.

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@paregorios I’m the developer, looking forward to hearing how it works out for you, should you try’em… Intro slides: https://t.co/W9aCpk51pN

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@johl The full comic is here: https://t.co/XQEdvWR37t :-)

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Slides from my #csvconf talk on Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets: https://t.co/W9aCpk51pN. CC: @CSVConference https://t.co/0VEfUQ1fO4

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Shoutout to the Primary Sources Tool in @johl’s #csvconf talk on @Wikidata data donations: https://t.co/sEBJ5sWiii

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Some interesting answers from Ricardo Baeza-Yates in his recent Quora Q&A session: https://t.co/oy38QL0wok (via @mounialalmas)

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At csvconf.com and watching @mafintosh present dat dat-data.com/about, a tool for distributing versioned datasets.

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somebitsLinks iStat Menus: MacOS system monitor dlvr.it/LCXV7C

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RT @benward: Coming soon to an entire internet near you: Embedded Tweets will use fast Shadow DOM containers instead of iframes. https://t.…

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The URL freebase.com now redirects to the Freebase dumps. RIP, @fbase; and here’s to a bright future of @wikidata!🍾

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RT @katecrawford: Where did all the cities go? Nice analysis of Google maps’ cartography shift. https://t.co/PMmZj12qE5

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@sjoerddebruin @JonatanGlad @MagnusManske This is fixed now, we were using the old module loading system. Apologies, and thanks for the PR!

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