Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

July 2016

Evergreen dash showing always yesterday’s top Wikipedia pages by Desktop, Mobile App & Web. https://t.co/CBxA1fwodS https://t.co/iAUWrdC2Xg

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Ahoy WIKIPAGEVIEWSPERARTICLE, WIKIPAGEVIEWSAGGREGATE, WIKIPAGEVIEWSTOP, WIKIUNIQUEDEVICES 🔥 https://t.co/hiE9rDnuaM https://t.co/dwYj2yMisU

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@samwalton9 I toyed around w/ it a bit and it’s fascinating as a dataset. Just added a protocol parameter for https. pic.twitter.com/Q9EjDK1GHU

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Thanks to @samwalton9’s feature request, Wikipedia Tools (https://t.co/p9HBIljpft) now have a WIKILINKSEARCH method. https://t.co/DG8HlytCPt

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Email password recovery steps of both @WEBDE & @GMX consist of hints for recovering passwords stored in browsers or a 3.99€ hotline.#Fail

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Rainy 🌧 lonely Sunday, but on the bright side time to fix GitHub Issues w/ my Node.js local-reverse-geocoder: 🌍 https://t.co/cn6WNh5h6B 🗺

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random_forests Really enjoying this excellent book by @michael_nielsen neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com - many thanks for this!

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@ChromeDevTools @addyosmani Why is type of Service Worker scripts “javascript”, vs. “script” for regular scripts? ðŸpic.twitter.com/wtqLl1c0KB0KB

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@slidrio Duh, indeed. Seems like I picked the worst-possible random example ;-) It’s working fine with https://t.co/T9iPqNNaAr 💍 Thanks!

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@RobinDrexler @slidrio ?embed https://t.co/gtZviBXqAE. 😀 portrait/landscape, 😕 suboptimal screen real estate use. https://t.co/hOTLXeZzYl

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@RobinDrexler @slidrio Thanks for the hint, but I fail to find an “embed” functionality; crucial for my use case (https://t.co/mHD2Ez6gB6).

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Of all popular slide hosting sites (LinkedIn’s SlideShare, Google Slides, GitHub’s Speaker Deck), Speaker Deck works the least on mobile 😥.

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RT @marissamayer: Thank you, @jelenawoehr! I follow you, miss working with you, and miss your posts on d-r :)
https://t.co/c3jcfITxQS

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“Man is to […] Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings”—Paper on Machine-Learned sexism https://t.co/nTgySeKMDZ [PDF]

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Microsoft’s @codepo8 on why ChakraCore—Microsoft’s alternative (to V8) JavaScript engine for Node.js—matters: https://t.co/FXWfOxF50Q +1

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RT @methode: If you’re a news publisher, we put together a short FAQ that might be in your interest when you move to HTTPS.

https://t.co/N…

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Academic Paper Title: Should It Contain Questions—Behold Semicolons; Or Even Dashes? [cf recursively quoted tweets…] https://t.co/ZCoJ1IcoFj

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@RubenVerborgh It’s great fun. Downside is that it’s using an elderly WebKit, so -webkit-* & webkit*()it is. But: https://t.co/zyxz6p1EUM 💌

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RT @notwaldorf: I made a thing that turns an image into emoji pixels! Which you can upload to a gist! 🙆🎉

❤️ https://t.co/y8Anrm1biB https:…

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@YahooResearch Confirmed working now, before https://t.co/pntBIkuONJ didn’t redirect to https://t.co/W5J0HW8MFL as it does now. Thanks :-)

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@YahooResearch Your form action link on https://t.co/pntBIkuONJ is wrong, the link that works is https://t.co/W5J0HW8MFL.

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A 💧-in (quite literally) Web Component @notwaldorforf that adds emoji rain to sitemeowni.ca/emoji-rain/2jA. Because we can. <emoji-rain>

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.@notwaldorf on building cross-platform consistent <input>s (think type=”range”) w/ Web Components: https://t.co/vK5Oqe4jtj. Crucial: #A11Y

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RT @mathias: 🎉 Unicode property escapes are coming to JavaScript regular expressions! https://t.co/G9OsSSbmhQ https://t.co/pinBJuix4k

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Great and accessible for newbies (like me) intro to neural networks and how to make use of them in TensorFlow: https://t.co/5ubNnzw2ai

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@andreapernici @cramforce @pbakaus Not yet, but the relevant people have been pinged.

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RT @jeffposnick: Keep Google Analytics working, even when your web app is offline:

https://t.co/yNdnfN3Ugp https://t.co/reDcL2HhxG

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RT @zeynep: Instead of “AKP emails”, Wikileaks dumped private info of ALMOST EVERY WOMAN in Turkey Yes. https://t.co/oteB3xwPLX https://t.c…

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The academic travel ban—@RT_Erdogan—is a shame! The RT in the Twitter handle stands for ReTweet, so the world knows. https://t.co/2rrtK7Wl5R

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WebKit to finally allow muted autoplaying inline video, as animated GIF is the possibly worst video codec ever… #iOS https://t.co/7StUHmSh3r

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Apart from everything is awesome & tremendous corp speak, the core bit is that @marissamayer is “planning to stay”. https://t.co/gJWmXK7WPB

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TL;DR for change <content>→<slot> needed, but @shadow_hayato’s v0→v1 Shadow DOM doc is top: https://t.co/EYLZiiyVvB. https://t.co/HOyxWLC0of

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How SOASTA & Google used Machine Learning to Predict Bounce Rate & Conversions https://t.co/DDFLOQpNS7 #velocityConf https://t.co/o31HVjSHmk

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igrigorik how many bytes do we need to encode a 1px image? too many: bit.ly/29R3RNw - interesting under the hood peek at different containers

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🤔 Am I the only one missing emoji predictions that were introduced in iOS 10 Beta 2, but gone again in Beta pic.twitter.com/jufvo7OFgPFgP

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RT @smashingmag: Dominant Colors for Lazy-Loading Images? Solved. A detailed article. https://t.co/T5uPO5EVmu

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@RubenVerborgh I guess Facebook want to annoy people out of clicking thru to YouTube videos (= loose context) in favor of FB-hosted videos.

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@RubenVerborgh WTF? Coming from Echofon (my Twitter client of choice) and opening it inline & Safari all worked OK. pic.twitter.com/PrljLadq5Z

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Fascinating to follow the 8-Bit Guy as he explains how old school floppy disks worked https://t.co/4U8ljjSCWY 💾 Highly recommended channel.

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In the future, you might want to add rel=”noopener” to your outbound links for improved performance and security: https://t.co/fBuJ45jT4p.

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igrigorik WebP team has been quietly plugging away at improving quality and speed.. e.g: bit.ly/2a2i8qG - great to see it paying off!

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If you’re into @AdWords API reporting, my latest Node.js library might be for you: https://t.co/EWcgUOVpCV. https://t.co/Y5Gz7NogsN

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Two new exciting Cloud APIs released: https://t.co/CVq9HZZXs0 for Natural Language Processing & https://t.co/ZmWsOaRciX for Speech to Text.

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Share URLs w/ a Mac by broadcasting them as a Physical Web Eddystone URL Bluetooth Beacon (w/o a physical beacon): https://t.co/zIXWhDvc3i

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rachelnabors Motion Detection with JavaScript: buff.ly/29FmCDE pic.twitter.com/4IiccdBTDC

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Interesting news coming from @AMPhtml today: @WashingtonPost success story https://t.co/e2rn7O72m7 and AMP for Ads https://t.co/juZ1cBaa4P.

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RT @aemkei: Releasing…

/// AUREBESH.js

→ https://t.co/XwV0oO8hw5

Translate JavaScript to other writing systems!

# ΔYロIᗐコΞ 💾 https://t.c…

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RT @CloudFour: The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps https://t.co/qhN4gvSl91 https://t.co/e3W8VnrkK9

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RT @ponyfoo: 🔰 Extra! Extra!
🍰 ServiceWorker: A Basic Guide to BackgroundSync
✍ By @DeanoHume
➡️️ https://t.co/RJjPG0GLlp
https://t.co/gaRP…

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Happy that theWikipedia Tools (https://t.co/ZGhEe0k0hf) have served you well :-D https://t.co/5HUEgPd29d

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An ESLint configuration enforcing the Google JavaScript style by guide (https://t.co/hVOEchvCVn) by @sindresorhus: https://t.co/UDSdC7Hwh0

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RT @rasbt: Colorizing b/w photos with a deep convolutional neural nets: useful (and impressive). https://t.co/mTTGpIdbAp https://t.co/oOSM6…

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Portrait of some of Yahoo!’s earliest ”Surfers“, the team who organized the company‘s Web directory: https://t.co/ZgrwdQaJjg (via @informor)

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ReoCities archives the remainders of GeoCities https://t.co/rDnIM2BmeE, e.g., this note to Yahoo! for adding a page https://t.co/73BhbhSDB1.

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Great post by @Paul_Kinlan on some of his Web dev visions. WRT more bug reports: I like https://t.co/4sSgMX1jLk. https://t.co/6XfHTIEjWY

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There is no such thing as free lunch, not even with HTTP/2: https://t.co/SuzLt1l9QO (via @andreapernici, CC: @igrigorik)

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Alexei_Simakov The profound irony of (in hiding) using Twitter to call on his supporters to take to the streets, after trying to ban it for years

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:08 PM, Jul 16th, 2016 via Echofon)

somebitsLinks Facebook diversity comment: More details of disappointment dlvr.it/LpgX0X

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Moved to Web Sockets w/ the Wikipedia screensaver: https://t.co/EnifHAugGY. Speech synthesis depends on getVoices(): https://t.co/APhzqTRqYr

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Improved compatibility of my 💬 Wikipedia screensaver: https://t.co/QgzcwwwLVW. Talking fine now on iOS/Android/PC. https://t.co/1S3IWd5oC7

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Interesting @zackbloom post again on the history of image maps: https://t.co/OWow1E4rhn Subscribe to their RSS feed: https://t.co/UrUOsZnppv

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The <details> #HTML5 tag’s so useful: https://t.co/LZ0DldtlzK. See it live: https://t.co/hB8TBkBOnd. Solid support: https://t.co/8UFUwVZkiv.

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@ericlaw @igrigorik Duh, thanks. It’s straight in the FAQ even… To me defense, I was on mobile, on desktop now…

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Fun game by @flukeout to learn basic to very advanced selectors: flukeout.github.io (via html5weekly.com/issues/248 [subscribe!])

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igrigorik using Zopfli to optimize PNG images: bit.ly/29T9YP3 - hooray compression!

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@igrigorik Do you happen to know if this is implemented in ImageOptim (imageoptim.com)?

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RT @ericclemmons: 🔥 Clean up @github issues with the HTML5 <details> tag — https://t.co/poNw69GO9s https://t.co/QEXZgk4LJx

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CSS variables put to creative use: @zackbloom’s “Communicating Between JavaScript and CSS Using CSS Variables”: https://t.co/NiN4x924Cb

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Custom Elements v1 is seriously upping the ante, and browser support is coming along nicely. https://t.co/F0qI3Okx2I

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The Primary Sources Tool (initially focused on migrating @fbase to @wikidata) has a new owner—Wikidata! Background: https://t.co/ggjYb3bT5Q.

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#TIL: TreeWalker (https://t.co/r4y94g5B93) unlike NodeIterator (https://t.co/0ofDMkKo0Q) only considers visible nodes. Added to @mozdevnet.

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@pietercolpaert “Train occupancy”, according to https://t.co/PNue3sfwT4.

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@RubenVerborgh Maybe @github favored speed(!) (everyone’s issue) over cross-system look & feel consistency (few’s issue [citation needed]).

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RT @addyosmani: ChromeLens helps develop for the visually impaired. ❤️ the keyboard-navigation flow tracing https://t.co/9ftBl8fnzv https:/…

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RT @sfeir: [Interview] : Google’s @addyosmani discuss tools & workflows for developers : https://t.co/NgC7QIt4Lo https://t.co/VG97dt42iI

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nicolastorzec Politwoops can display deleted tweets from Politicians but PostGhost can’t display those from popular Verified Users postghost.com/Home/Shutdown/

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The Apollo 11 lunar landing code is now on GitHub: https://t.co/eJ5QRg6ITM. Cool accompanying background story: https://t.co/K9DV13PtT5.

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Finally managed to read “The languages which almost were CSS”: https://t.co/LTZjngxo9G. A great(!) history lesson on how standards are made.

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Thanks, @maguay, for mentioning my Google Sheets add-on Wikipedia Tools. Very useful list of add-ons! https://t.co/GY5ma6R2Ck

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Good reminder blog post on the mighty console API in Web browsers to ease your debugging: https://t.co/jqN13cf2kd

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RT @DasSurma: A good infinite scroller has a few technical challenges. So we wrote one in vanilla JS and blogged about it!

https://t.co/AX…

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Interesting detail of the Firefox search deal struck by @marissamayer in case Mozilla don’t like the buyer of Yahoo: https://t.co/1yjbw0RVfA

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@Paul_Kinlan You meant VoiceXML apps @Business_Kinlan was building I guess?!

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“On modern hardware GIF is the slowest and most expensive video codec. Can we please allow it to be obsoleted?kornel.ski/efficient-gifs4345N5

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Turning Progressive Web Apps into @ElectronJS desktop apps: https://t.co/mSKusekhDj. @dalmaer’s dream come true?! https://t.co/fCKr66hULb

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Heavy metal lyrics examined w/ #NLProc techniques: https://t.co/qxmleFV1ik. Paging @apassant. (via @brucel’s https://t.co/ogAWMgzlbr)

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Blog post by @mikegbabb on data saving opportunities w/ <picture> and WebP: https://t.co/MQqZSzlXDN (via @brucel’s https://t.co/ogAWMgzlbr)

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RT @kdzwinel: I made a webpage showing off our small library of UI components. They are pretty, they are open and they are fast 🤘

https://…

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Use cases for the :target CSS pseudo-class, e.g., combined w/ <mark> (https://t.co/MgIxYYDER2) to highlight searches https://t.co/XBYuAFaQod

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100% #ES2015 support in the latest Safari Technology Preview Release 8: https://t.co/SVWki56IdS. Come on, Apple, you can do Service Worker!

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igrigorik handy ServiceWorker 101 infographic! source: bit.ly/28XAo0n pic.twitter.com/dhzbLax829

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mozhacks “It works on my machine” isn’t good enough. 43% of your visitors aren’t using Chrome. mzl.la/29wApgz pic.twitter.com/ArL24MzaYI

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Great write-up by @DasSurma’s on his quest of getting HTTP/2 Server Push (https://t.co/1n6GKOoHlO) to work: https://t.co/v3b1nhEVoY

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I have a hard time remembering some more obscure #CSS3 selectors. Turns out the cheat sheet is right in the spec: https://t.co/BhyiqRHFdB

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@andreapernici @pbakaus Shouldn’t you be able to implement Audiweb tracking (https://t.co/z8HhMigbtP) via https://t.co/eVvvCRS2KI, like IVW?

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@andreapernici @pbakaus 🤔 Define “owned”? [offline now, but would like to continue the discussion later]

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@andreapernici @pbakaus +1. An often forgotten aspect of @AMPhtml is its cache: developers.google.com/amp/cache. Common denominator, not downgrade.

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@andreapernici @pbakaus All that being said, @AMPhtml is still limited, e.g., I can’t have <base> iblog.tomayac.comYk (or comments).

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@andreapernici @pbakaus The issue isn’t basic static pages, but devs using poorly implemented code, e.g., greedily loading image carousels…

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RT @pbakaus: About that “mobile” in Accelerated Mobile Pages: Embracing AMP to build a single, canonical responsive site. https://t.co/W3R4…

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Maybe not running for “shortest paper”, but @RubenVerborgh & I’re up for “shortest abstract” https://t.co/lcOXcWYiFM https://t.co/2kUM4nieNQ

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googledevs New ep. of Machine Learning Recipes: “Train Your Own Image Classifier” by @random_forests: goo.gl/1aCVND pic.twitter.com/TfzC0cElcf

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RT @addyosmani: Catch the @ChromeDevTools

Dark Theme 🕶
Security Panel 🛡
& whats new in Elements 🖌

in a new Totally Tooling Tips https://t…

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RT @codinghorror: Super impressed with the Win10 emoji set https://t.co/PZvfQbbe1Y — can anyone at MSFT tell me if we can distribute it un…

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