Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

March 2017

aemkei What a beautiful and super detailed article about the Mandelbrot set by @jeffowler: medium.com/dailyjs/the-ma…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:13 PM, Mar 31st, 2017 via Echofon)

poshaughnessy “Why don’t we test on iPad 1?”
“Our analytics show no traffic from it”
[Load site on iPad 1]
[Crash]
[No analytics]
webperf.ninja/2017/analytics…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:50 PM, Mar 31st, 2017 via Echofon)

umaar Dev Tips: DevTools: Git-style code diffs ✍ for your CSS/Sass/JavaScript in the new Changes panel - umaar.com/dev-tips/137-c… - Try in Canary pic.twitter.com/gxtrIP0c3O

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:44 PM, Mar 31st, 2017 via Echofon)

@emschec @trivago_tech have a great HTTP→HTTPS success story to share.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to emschec

kaycebasques Now in @ChromeDevTools (Canary): Capture a full-page screenshot, from top of viewport, allllll the way to the bottom youtu.be/r_6_9eFPhxI

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:27 AM, Mar 31st, 2017 via Echofon)

Twitter stops counting user names in replies against the 140 chars👏. Justice, no matter the handle—11 years late🤦‍♀️blog.twitter.com/2017/now-on-tw…U0

via Twitter for iPhone

@fgnass Probably not the one you saw, but maybe still helpful: github.com/ChromeDevTools….

via Echofon in reply to fgnass

Progressive Web Apps in native app stores? 🛍 Yes, @olivtassinari has built one, published it on Web, Android, iOS; and even open-sourced it! twitter.com/olivtassinari/…

via Twitter Web Client

grorgwork That WebKit post didn’t mention the DOM JIT. It’s not a Web-facing feature, but it’s still very cool. We now have JITs for JS, CSS and DOM.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:24 AM, Mar 30th, 2017 via Echofon)

Amazing set of new features rolling out to Safari users on both macOS & iOS. Still missing: 👷‍♀️ Service Workers and 📹 getUserMedia. 🙏 twitter.com/webkit/status/…

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kentcdodds TIL: if you hold down the <shift> key while hovering over @ChromeDevTools network tab resources, it’ll highlight related resources for you! pic.twitter.com/IyB7n2ft10

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:50 PM, Mar 29th, 2017 via Echofon)

Potrace, a powerful tool to convert bitmap images to vector format: potrace.sourceforge.net. Via @rodono’s post mobiforge.com/design-develop….

via Twitter for iPhone

wesbos Huge Safari 10.1 Update!

→ Async + Await
→ Fetch()
→ Input Validation
→ CSS Grid
→ <a download=”filename.jpg”>

developer.apple.com/library/conten…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:19 PM, Mar 29th, 2017 via Echofon)

intenttoship Blink: Intent to Experiment: GetInstalledRelatedApps API ift.tt/2mOfXxq

via IFTTT (retweeted on 8:07 PM, Mar 29th, 2017 via Echofon)

Added legacy pagecounts support to my lil’ Wikipedia pageviews.js library today, building on @fdans’s work (merci👏): github.com/tomayac/pagevi…

via Twitter for iPhone

Huxpro I just published “How does SW-Precache works” medium.com/p/how-does-sw-…

via Medium (retweeted on 9:11 PM, Mar 28th, 2017 via Echofon)

firt PhoneGap is finally making a difference from Cordova. It’ll now be a set of tools for creating PWAs or Cordova apps. phonegap.com/blog/2017/03/1…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:07 PM, Mar 28th, 2017 via Echofon)

umaar Web Discoveries - github.com/GoogleChrome/d… Lessons learned exploring Sustainable Loading for the web. A well written performance study here ⚡ pic.twitter.com/YtFvAPumbg

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:55 PM, Mar 28th, 2017 via Echofon)

👌Brilliant @smashingmag study where they look at recent Mobile Web trends around responsive design, PWA, & @AMPhtml: smashingmagazine.com/2017/03/buildi…

via Twitter for iPhone

addyosmani New: Loading performance pro-tips for <link rel=”preload”>, prefetch & priorities in Chrome: medium.com/@addyosmani/pr… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/DpDmlNIedO

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:20 AM, Mar 28th, 2017 via Twitter Web Client)

newsycombinator How to Extract Data from Wikipedia and Wikidata linktosheets.com/extract-data-f…

via newsycombinator (retweeted on 9:46 PM, Mar 27th, 2017 via Echofon)

Wow, compelling overview of things to do with my add-on “Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets” by @RobinRozhon: linktosheets.com/extract-data-f… 💯 pic.twitter.com/M1zHKMJZjI

via Twitter Web Client

A tech friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer and writes about his story: mycancernotes.wordpress.com
PS: Fuck cancer! xkcd.com/931/

via Echofon

agektmr I just published “Improving mobile web conversions just by optimizing web forms” medium.com/p/improving-mo…

via Medium (retweeted on 10:26 AM, Mar 26th, 2017 via Echofon)

The timeline in @nelson’s blog post about ads in the LA Times summarizes all what is wrong with today’s Web: nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/la-….

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justmarkup Polyfill for `:focus-ring` - based on the proposed CSS :focus-ring pseudo-selector github.com/wicg/focus-ring

Demo: wicg.github.io/focus-ring/dem…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:59 AM, Mar 25th, 2017 via Echofon)

aaranged My latest > An Open Letter to @bing Regarding JSON-LD bit.ly/2nfox5r

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:58 AM, Mar 25th, 2017 via Echofon)

Interesting idea: @github introduce a first-time committer L-plate analog (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-plate). twitter.com/CoralineAda/st…

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rob_dodson Super excited for this video on :focus-ring. Differentiate mouse and keyboard focus for improved a11y styles 👍

youtube.com/watch?v=ilj2P5…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:06 PM, Mar 24th, 2017 via Echofon)

gauntface A cheeky look at pretty printing in the console.

medium.com/@gauntface/pre…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:56 PM, Mar 24th, 2017 via Echofon)

alistapart Good stuff and the gotchas—how to convert existing designs to Grid, via@meyerwebb:alistapart.com/article/practi…MdSv

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:47 PM, Mar 24th, 2017 via Echofon)

Great deck by @aaranged on running successful SEO with structured (linked) data: slideshare.net/mobile/SearchM… 👍🏻 twitter.com/aaranged/statu…

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I was running really low on disk space on my Linux box today (0 bytes left), ncdu to the rescue: dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu.

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ChromiumDev 🔥 Fancy! Using scale transforms to make performant expand-and-collapse effects! developers.google.com/web/updates/20… (also 💯 on promoting my stuff) ^AERO

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 5:58 PM, Mar 23rd, 2017 via Echofon)

Remotely playing media from the Web over Chromecast, AirPlay,… is now possible—Spew3c.github.io/remote-playbac…6CO Samplgooglechrome.github.io/samples/media/…jTr

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If you’re into weird 8 bit era tricks, I recommend “The 8-Bit Guy” YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/adric22. (CC: @DasSurma @codepo8)

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Brilliant tech article that explains how the C64 created “impossible” (at 8 bit) colors: aaronbell.com/secret-colours… (via @DasSurma) twitter.com/DasSurma/statu…

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umaar Accessibility Style Guide for the Web - cehfisher.github.io/a11y-style-gui… - Covers best practices for various site components + includes code examples pic.twitter.com/sUhrOoA05m

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:40 PM, Mar 23rd, 2017 via Echofon)

aaranged Since people seem to have found this useful, here’s a clean version of my table of structured data capabilities by data consumer pic.twitter.com/P2jL5Hf0vT

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:41 AM, Mar 23rd, 2017 via Echofon)

@MSEdgeDev Minor cosmetic thing, but did someone look at twitter.com/tomayac/status… yet? Thanks.

via Twitter Lite in reply to MSEdgeDev

Chrome 58 Beta adds support for a “display”: “fullscreen” manifest property, allowing for truly immersive Web apps: blog.chromium.org/2017/03/chrome….

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alisonmf . @github Adds Plain English Explanations to License Pages for Open Source Projects buff.ly/2n6sT0j pic.twitter.com/rYgCH4iHXf

via Buffer (retweeted on 7:46 PM, Mar 21st, 2017 via Echofon)

For , “vomiting” should be a combining modifier xkcd.com/1813/, and why does gender matter for emoji blog.emojipedia.org/what-is-gender….

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umaar CSS Protips - github.com/AllThingsSmitt… - Huge list of CSS tricks. Full of code examples, explanations and external posts for extra reading. pic.twitter.com/wwstBMB6aG

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:45 PM, Mar 2nd, 2017 via Echofon)

In Manifests, URLs need to be parsed relative to a base URL w3c.github.io/manifest/#src-…. TIL that new URL() has 2 params developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/AP…

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@chrisdwheatley_ @googlechrome @pwaweekly Thanks :-) The manifest parsing was probably added after the fact… Subscribed to the newsletter.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to chrisdwheatley_

@chrisdwheatley_ Thanks for doing the research, I was about to conduct a test. +1, clarification as to why this exists in the spec needed.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to chrisdwheatley_

: You can register a Service Worker via a Web App Manifest: w3c.github.io/manifest/#serv…

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A Link: rel=preload analysis from the Chrome Data Saver Team: medium.com/reloading/a-li….

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