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The personal blog of Thomas Steiner

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2026 5

  1. Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR
  2. Refueling an EV be like
  3. Guest blog post on Cross-Origin Storage in Transformers.js
  4. Your MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant
  5. A polyfill for the HTML switch element

2025 8

  1. Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit
  2. Running Node.js in a Hugging Face Space
  3. Prompt API color sensitivity
  4. For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please?
  5. What a diff'rence a semicolon makes
  6. Setting the COOP and COEP headers on static hosting like GitHub Pages
  7. Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions
  8. Testing browser-use, a scriptable AI browser agent

2024 6

  1. Eleventy (11ty) year, year-month, and year-month-day indexes
  2. My response to the UK Competition and Markets Authority
  3. The Web Conf 2024, Singapore: Trip report
  4. So, what exactly did Apple break in the EU?
  5. Lenovo ThinkVision P27h-20 screen randomly turns off when connected to MacBook Pro
  6. Wasm meetup Munich: A Wasm New Year! trip report

2023 6

  1. W3C TPAC 2023 Trip Report
  2. Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
  3. Getting my domain tomayac.de back
  4. Cross platform software frameworks
  5. iOS Continuity Camera not working in Chrome
  6. Not everyone's currently building for the Web, but probably more people should

2022 6

  1. Project Fugu 🐡 on the JS party podcast
  2. Modern Frontends Live
  3. Reflections about Project Fugu 🐡
  4. Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
  5. Announcing the Project Fugu API Showcase
  6. iOS Browser Engine Choice

2021 7

  1. Releasing SVGcode
  2. Things mode and strings mode in Google Trends
  3. 14 years at Google
  4. Public statement of support for Annalena Baerbock and Die Grünen for #BTW21
  5. Dark Mode Web App Manifest App Icons
  6. Excalidraw and Project Fugu 🐡 at Google I/O
  7. <ruby> HTML footnotes

2020 9

  1. Releasing Joy-Con WebHID
  2. Submitting and Distributing a Safari App Extension
  3. Learning from Mini Apps—W3C TPAC Breakout Session
  4. Play the Chrome dino game on your Nintendo Switch
  5. The requestVideoFrameCallback API
  6. My Working From Home Setup During COVID-19
  7. Multi-MIME Type Copying with the Async Clipboard API
  8. Brotli Compression with mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed
  9. Progressive Enhancement In the Age of Fugu APIs

2019 14

  1. Same same but different: Unicode Variation Selector-16
  2. Inspecting Facebook's WebView
  3. Animated SVG favicons
  4. The redesigned Blogccasion is live
  5. prefers-color-scheme in SVG favicons for dark mode icons
  6. Project Fugu 🐡 at W3C TPAC
  7. Not All Is Nothing—Finding Out If the Browser Supports a Given Media Query
  8. A Quick Look At WeChat's Mini Programs
  9. Re-Colorization for Dark Mode
  10. Let there be darkness! 🌚 Maybe…
  11. What Does Dark Mode’s “color-scheme” Actually Do? 🤔
  12. Two HTTP headers related to Service Workers you never may have heard of
  13. Engaging in Web Standards—The “Compatible with Most Web Developers” Approach
  14. Progressive Web App Progress in iOS 12.2 Beta 1 (Build 16E5181f)

2018 11

  1. Experimenting with the Wake Lock API
  2. Why Build Progressive Web Apps: If It’s Just a Bookmark, It’s not a PWA!—Video Write-Up
  3. Why Build Progressive Web Apps: Push, but Don’t be Pushy! — Video Write-Up
  4. Why Build Progressive Web Apps: Never Lose a Click-Out!—Video Write-Up
  5. Why Browsers Download Stylesheets With Non-Matching Media Queries
  6. New top-level HTTP Archive Report on Progressive Web Apps
  7. Service Worker Caching Strategies Based on Request Types
  8. Submitting a Microsoft Edge extension to the Microsoft Store
  9. Progressive Web Apps in the HTTP Archive
  10. Linux on a Mid 2007 iMac
  11. AMP cache adding an external CSS style sheet?

2017 1

  1. Service Worker Detector Chrome Extension Released

2016 1

  1. World Wide Web Conference (WWW2016): Trip Report

2015 3

  1. International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2015): Trip Report
  2. Mediterranea.JS: Trip Report
  3. World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015): Trip Report

2014 4

  1. International Semantic Web Conference 2014: Trip Report
  2. PhD thesis successfully defended
  3. WS-REST 2014 and Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data
  4. Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia: A Case Study of the 2014 Winter Olympics

2013 5

  1. Bots vs. Wikipedians—Who edits more?
  2. Batch-convert PDFs to JPEGs and extract raw text from PDFs
  3. PDF Archive of All My Published Papers
  4. Disabling Blog Comments
  5. What I do for a living in my PhD

2012 7

  1. Shutting down the Open Knowledge Graph
  2. SEKI@home, or Crowdsourcing an Open Knowledge Graph
  3. Knowledge Graph Socializer Chrome extension
  4. AVM FRITZ!Box 7270 Wi-Fi Router
  5. Enabling on-the-fly Video Shot Detection on YouTube
  6. Nil Steiner Torrent has arrived
  7. A Chrome extension that actually implements xkcd #37. Yeah, for real.

2011 11

  1. Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos
  2. Next Generation Web Services Practices NWeSP
  3. Generating the ellipsis character on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  4. JSON Emergency Brake
  5. Thesis Proposal Passed
  6. Dear Google+
  7. Facebook Swarm NLP Chrome Extension
  8. W3C RDF Working Group - JSON Syntax Options
  9. Slides from my talk at WS-REST 2011 at WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India
  10. Twitter Whom To Follow Chrome Extension
  11. Foto ABC for iPhone by Esquimal Apps launched on the AppStore

2010 11

  1. Breadcrumb Navigator Google Chrome Extension
  2. GoodRelations Amazon Checker Google Chrome Extension
  3. RDFa Triple Lister Chrome extension released
  4. RDFa API-based Creative Commons Laser Highlighter Chrome Extension Released
  5. JRON - From JSON to RDF by Sandro Hawke
  6. New Job: Switching From Part-Time Customer Solutions Engineer to Full-Time Research
  7. Regarding mca's The Cure for URI Construction in your Web API is URI-Templates
  8. BTstack Keyboard & BTstack Mouse Live Demo on an iPhone 3G
  9. Attending Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010
  10. Nachmieter gesucht für 3-Zimmer-Wohnung in der Gryphiusstr. 1, Hamburg Winterhude (Update: Wohnung vergeben)
  11. iPhone 3.1.2 Update Hints and Reminders

2009 22

  1. AdWords API PHP Client Library is the new APIlity
  2. Still loving Google
  3. Feed URL has changed
  4. An SEO presentation EVERYONE should know
  5. The story of our stroller ramp
  6. Offener Brief an die Vermieter und Mitmieter in der Musterstr. 1 in Hamburg (German)
  7. Why day-trading on eBay does not work if you are a human
  8. Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt als Google Logo (German)
  9. The story of a short night
  10. Sleepless in Hamburg
  11. Welcome to this wonderful world, Emma Steiner Torrent
  12. Having a baby the Mediterranean way…
  13. Contractions are back
  14. Birth on hold
  15. Groundhog day
  16. Recap of today's events
  17. It's a…
  18. Still waiting in vain
  19. Waiting for the forth member of the family
  20. iPhone 3G: Firmware Download Links, Search Engine Tweaks, Bookmarking Hacks, slide to unlock Customization
  21. Google Web Toolkit (GWT): Casting an Element retrieved with DOM.getElementById()
  22. A Keffiyeh is a lot more than a Fashion Accessoire from H&M

2008 17

  1. Death Prevails - Hackneyed
  2. Two good JavaScript Books
  3. DIE ZEIT erklärt die Finanzkrise für Normalsterbliche (German)
  4. APIlity Agua 1.13.0 Released
  5. Error: uncaught exception: [Exception…
  6. Tobias Bandh über Living in the Cloud (German)
  7. APIlity 1.13.0 Final Version released
  8. APIlity 1.13.0 Preview Version released
  9. Official Tour de France iGoogle Gadget Released
  10. Persistent Storage JavaScript Library
  11. Note to myself regarding JSON
  12. APIlity 1.12.0 finally released
  13. Löwenzahn-Parodie - Wie man auch ohne die Börse reich wird
  14. Did you think that you were dreaming? - Sometimes I don't know…
  15. Google Tech Talk on REST Describe & Compile
  16. Single Awareness Day
  17. Sweet 1000 Miles Away Melancholy

2007 27

  1. Firefox on Mac OS X and LiveHTTPHeaders Alt L Hotkey Annoyance
  2. Why Google is on the
  3. Back from parental leave, back to business
  4. Welcome to life, Lena Steiner Torrent
  5. On Parental Leave…
  6. Power is back in Barcelona
  7. Parts of Barcelona still without power
  8. Barcelona power outage
  9. Auto-generate the Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP 5 Wesabe API client code
  10. HOWTO make a screencast on Mac OS X
  11. REST Describe & Compile Screencasts
  12. REST Describe & Compile in practice
  13. REST Describe & Compile in feature freeze for France release
  14. Liebe ist grenzenlos (Love has no limits)
  15. Generate Java from your WADL REST API Descriptions with REST Describe & Compile
  16. Dog food in REST Compile & Describe
  17. Generate Python from your WADL REST API Descriptions with REST Describe & Compile
  18. Generate Ruby from your WADL REST API Descriptions with REST Describe & Compile
  19. Generate Code from your WADL REST API Descriptions with REST Describe & Compile
  20. REST Describe in the news and Road Map
  21. REST Describe first working Beta released
  22. REST Describe and why WADL is so god damn German
  23. REST API Code Generation project in the news…
  24. Automatic Multi Language Program Library Generation for REST APIs
  25. Political will is also a renewable resource in Germany
  26. The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. (Douglas Crockford)
  27. Das Leben der Anderen - Eine DDR jenseits der Sonnenallee

2006 31

  1. Proxima Estación: Esperanza
  2. French-German Quaero project no longer French-German
  3. Too old to die young…
  4. The French Way of Solving Problems
  5. Interesse am Informatikstudium sinkt weiter
  6. Forum PHP 2006 Paris
  7. Subject for my Final Year Project
  8. Über das Schöngerede von VoIP
  9. R.I.P. Alturo - Switching my web hoster
  10. Five things about Europe I miss while in the US
  11. State of Fear
  12. APIlity 1.4.5 released
  13. Spam ist nicht sooo übel
  14. Mashup Camp 2
  15. Independence Day - Eine Nation feiert.
  16. APIlitAx 0.9.0 released. An Ajax GUI for Google AdWords
  17. How Google really works
  18. Dynamically created tables in Internet Explorer
  19. Living on a jet plane… NASA Ames Research Center
  20. APIlity 1.4.4 released
  21. Cantamos para no llorar. The Orishas
  22. Kurioses rund ums J1 Visum für die Einreise in die USA
  23. Welttag des Buches, Sant Jordi und das deutsche Reinheitsgebot
  24. Pandora and the Music Genome Project
  25. APIlity 1.3.0 released (obligatory upgrade)
  26. This account is empty => Hotfix for APIlity 1.1.0
  27. Gmail is great!
  28. 8-Bit May Never Die!
  29. Doing things the last time…
  30. Updating my CV, amerikanischer Musterlebenslauf, modèle de CV américain
  31. APIlity 1.1.0 released

2005 20

  1. Blog-Spam On My blogccasion Software
  2. Common RSS logo in browsers
  3. Drogué de la poudreuse - Skiing at Les Deux Alpes
  4. At length and at last I have reached the land of plenty
  5. Do not modify the divine world order
  6. Updated APIlity Reference released
  7. La France en état d'urgence
  8. Verlan für Erfängan und Fipros
  9. Des émeutes en France arrivent à un nouveau niveau
  10. APIlity 1.0.1a released
  11. Paris Riots November 2005
  12. Some thoughts about Apple's iPod 4G
  13. Zimmer mit Bergblick in gastlicher Atmosphäre
  14. Karlsruhe, Moltkestraße 3. Krebsgefahr durch Schimmelpilze
  15. Die Franzosen und die englische Sprache
  16. Why I started to blog
  17. APIlity 1.0.1 released
  18. Grenoble ist mehr ein Weltteil als eine Stadt.
  19. Working at Google for the APIlity PHP project
  20. Connection ADSL avec Alice et son noveau AliceBox