Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

February 4th, 2022

RT @elvin_not_11: Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today. Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for…

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“WebXR combines the power of immersive VR with the convenience of the web. The web is the platform of least friction, with nothing to install. Sharing an experience is one click away. It allows for easy updates to the software[.]”— https://t.co/WtNh

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@AnaestheticsApp @diekus @kennethrohde Nice selection of apps you got there! 😂

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retro_gerry found a great wee tool for converting images to SVG vectors.
its not perfect but its good and very fast.
svgco.de
so of course i rattled a pile of ultimate play the game zx spectrum loading screens into it. they turned out nice in a blocky looking way
alien 8
/1 pic.twitter.com/2CodqExZD9

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@AaronGustafson @ebidel @ChromiumDev @diekus I have a proposal regarding Install Time Permissions Prompt: https://t.co/NGPfQFCZhH.

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@dgrammatiko @ChromiumDev Are you referring to https://t.co/fsi6QBTV0g, and https://t.co/kLpEm27liB specifically?

Temporal is implemented in Chrome:

“`js
Temporal​.Now.instant()
// Instant {_repr_: ‘Temporal.Instant <2022-02-04T12:53:48.571201114Z>’

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RT @ChromiumDev: 🔢 Announcing Chrome 99 beta:

💉 CSS Cascade Layers
💉 New `showPicker()` method for `<input>` elements
💉 Window Controls Ov…

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@RichFelker @steren @ebidel @ChromiumDev I imagine a prompt UI where they would be presented together and could be accepted with one click, but where the prompt UI would still allow users to unselect individual permissions they don’t want to grant.

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@edent It’s essentially a placeholder `div` where, in case of an error, an HTML document’s being injected and the placeholder’s then via CSS “promoted” to visually replace the erroring page with just the error message document. The HTML document’s generic

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RT @blakeaburge: 12 Google Sheets formulas guaranteed to 🔈 your productivity today:

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@dannymoerkerke I have realized this as you can see in https://t.co/c8bYA8Agp9. Full credits to @int32_t via https://t.co/hHXpx2aF2P, where I have seen this used the first time.

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jeffposnick I built this at a recent team hackathon: yt-playlist-notifier.web.app

You subscribe to updates to YouTube playlists, and get a list of the all the latest videos.

If you install the PWA using Chrome, periodic background sync will send you notifications of any new videos daily.

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 8:01 AM, Feb 4th, 2022 via Echofon)

@jeffposnick Starting to rely on this more and just submitted two issues that would make it a little easier to use. Cool project for sure!

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RT @slightlylate: If you live or do business in the UK, what @AshleyGullen has done is exactly what you and your org should do THIS WEEK:…

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@RichFelker @steren @ebidel @ChromiumDev Think about video conferencing: these apps will always ask for notifications (so you are made aware of incoming calls) and camera and microphone (so you can, you know, videoconference). What if we minted a new sema

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RT @argyleink: How to query a database from CSS
✅ SQLite
✅ Houdini

“`#css
.query-display {
background: paint(sql-css);
}

main {
—sq…

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@briankardell @openuicg LOL, I didn’t know what I expected. But thanks! 😆

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@zachleat @SaraSoueidan Oh the modesty 😃. And I assure you of yourself.

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@briankardell @openuicg What’s the start URL of the landing page here? Safari conveniently hides the path…

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@SaraSoueidan @zachleat Thanks for the reminder, Sara! Happy birthday, Zach, and thanks for sharing so much of what you know, learn, and produce! The Web’s a better place for folks like you. (In the last sentence and the second half of the penultimate,

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