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tomayac

@tomayac@toot.cafe

Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on WebAssembly and Project Fugu 🐡. Dad-of-3. Alum of Université de Lyon (Postdoc), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (PhD), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (MA).

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rgadellaa, to random
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Hi @tomayac I think I pinged you about this before (back then you asked for patience, which is 👍).

It's about a bug in Chrome that completely crashes PWAs on Android when you open an external link and then "open in browser" - but there's been no movement on getting it fixed since January ☹️: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41495930

Could you look into it / pass this on? Thank you!

tomayac,
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@rgadellaa I've pinged our PWA engineering team. I can reproduce the issue, though wouldn't speak of "crash", but just "reload" (which is still unexpected).

tomayac,
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@rgadellaa @ondra It opens the start URL indeed for me, so looses all state. Maybe, just to be sure, try temporarily switching back to the stock launcher, if you now see what we're seeing.

Edent, to academia
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Hey #academia friends.

If - and it is a very big if - I wanted to start a PhD in about a year's time, what should I do now to prepare?

I got my MSc a year ago. I haven't started looking at any specific programmes yet.

UK-based tips especially appreciated!

tomayac,
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@Edent Find an advisor who's interested in the field you want to explore. Make sure they're okay with the way you want to work on the PhD (full/half-time, present/hybrid/remote). At the stage of your career, make sure you're clear you're doing it for yourself, and yourself alone—this won't give you a salary bump, neither in your old job if you stay working or arrange for an unpaid educational leave, nor in a new job if you switch. Finally, find areas where you can dig a 1m wide, 100m deep hole.

tomayac,
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@Edent If you decide to work out some sort of agreement with your current employer, see my lesson from my PhD: https://blog.tomayac.com/2021/10/02/14-years-at-google/#the-phd-time-2010-2014. This may or may not affect you mentally: prepare for rejection, and prepare for being the oldest PhD student (by a distance) in the room when you submit to conferences. Oh, in Computer Science submit to conferences; submitting to journals means you won't interact with others in person, and that's the most meaningful, fulfilling part. If you can afford it, do it!

tomayac, (edited ) to random
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New bookmarklet 🔖:

// Name this so it's quick to autocomplete  
// in the URL bar, like "Paywall be gone".  
javascript:(function(){window.open('<https://archive.today/'+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)>);})();

Thanks, @paul for documenting how to use bookmarklets on Android Chrome: https://paul.kinlan.me/use-bookmarklets-on-chrome-on-android/.

tomayac,
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@robinbakker @paul Wow, about https://cooked.wiki.

simevidas, to random
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Political billboards for the EU election in Germany.

Notice how with blurred vision, the magenta word is harder to read than the white words.

This political party is probably not getting their message across to some people due to the poor accessibility of their billboards.

tomayac,
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@simevidas (No harm done. )

tomayac, to webassembly
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Be sure to check out Deepti Gandluri's and Austin Eng's talk on and enhancements for faster Web AI: https://youtu.be/VYJZGa9m34w?si=_PPuJQJ9Zor5AyID. Running Al inference directly on client machines reduces latency, improves privacy by keeping all data on the client, and saves server costs. To accelerate these workloads, and WebGPU are evolving to incorporate new low-level primitives.

tomayac, to webassembly
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Our talk is finally online 🎉! Thomas Nattestad and I share how Goodnotes ported their award-winning iPad app to the Web thanks to , and SwiftWasm specifically. Next, we give an overview of how is being used by various product teams at Google, including Google Photos, Sheets, Meet, and others. Lastly, I show how C++ image filters from a fictitious iOS and Android app called Delayedgram (🥁) can be ported to the Web and the filter code be shared!

https://youtu.be/c8hZFtl8EuQ?si=xNEU9zn4ycpLA5YV

tomayac, to random
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When to use tabindex="0": https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/04/04/when-to-use-tabindex-0/. Hint: rarely.

tomayac,
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@abimelex See here: https://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/tabindex#negative-one.

tomayac, to random
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Just finished the presentation of my History of the Web track paper on "Toward Making Opaque Web Content More Accessible: Accessibility From Adobe Flash to Canvas-Rendered Apps":

📄 Paper: https://goo.gle/opaque-web-content-paper
🖼️ Slides: https://goo.gle/opaque-web-content-slides

tomayac, to random
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ECMAScript proposal: Promise.withResolvers()
https://2ality.com/2024/05/proposal-promise-with-resolvers.html. Great overview of the ideas behind this.

aral, to web
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Here’s a niche gotcha with the clipboard API’s navigator.clipboard.writeText() method that’s unique to Safari:

If you access a function from a module within your gesture handler (e.g., click handler), you will get a permission error.

The (sadly hacky and not as robust) workaround is to set a global variable from your module instead.

Full gist:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/clipboard-writetext-permission-error-when-using-modules-in-safari.md

tomayac,
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@aral @raymondcamden The best way to get this fixed is to file a WebKit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/enter_bug.cgi.

jensimmons, to random
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For those of you who make a PWA / Home Screen web app, do you use Fullscreen API inside your web app? Do you need it??

Or as a general web developer, how do you like Fullscreen API?? Do you wish it were different / better?

tomayac,
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@jensimmons I've seen the Fullscreen API feature used for "Zen mode", that is, a view fully focused on one thing, without distractions from other windows of unrelated apps, and even the app UI that's not relevant for the concrete thing.

nikitonsky, to random
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New blogpost: Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem

https://tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

tomayac,
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@kexuyo @nikitonsky That's my question as well. Other than that, with some CSS wizardry (no JS needed) this could be made work super well on mobile, too.

Edent, to random
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Grrrr. Google Slides doesn't support WebP.

Why, yes, my #EMFcamp talk prep is proceeding nicely, thanks!

tomayac, (edited )
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@Edent Wait until you try to paste an SVG 😂.

jensimmons, (edited ) to random
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Safari 17.5 is out today! With
• text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: stable
• light-dark()
• @​starting-style
• @​import &lt;url&gt; supports(&lt;feature&gt;);
• AV1 for WebCodecs
• WebGL EXT_conservative_depth and NV_shader_noperspective_interpolation
and more!

https://webkit.org/blog/15383/webkit-features-in-safari-17-5/

tomayac,
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@jensimmons For "WebKit for Safari 17.5 adds support for AV1 to WebCodecs when an AV1 hardware decoder is available.", could you clarify what this means device-/operating-system-wise?

ricmac, to webdev
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Eleventy is an act of rebellion against the dark forces driving today’s internet, said its creator @zachleat at . Also at the lively event, we discovered that @eleventy does scale! https://thenewstack.io/static-sites-do-scale-eleventy-vs-next-js-at-11ty-event/

tomayac,
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@ricmac MissingEmojiException ✊

raymondcamden, to random
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I've been using Airtable to track conference submissions. Banner year for me... out of 38 submissions so far, I've gotten... 2 acceptances.

Seriously considering just stopping - focusing on writing, video, streaming.

tomayac,
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@raymondcamden One thing worth considering might be to submit to conferences you might have seen as out of scope. For example, I recently learned that our core CSS folks at Google very successfully present on pure CSS stuff at conferences with React in the name, without mentioning a single word of React.

SaraSoueidan, to random
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I get the appeal of email newsletters. I really do.

But nothing gives me as much anxiety as sending out an email and then constantly obsessing about whether I made a typo or messed up a link, because I simply can't just edit it like I can with a post on my blog. 😭

tomayac,
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@voxpelli @SaraSoueidan I'm in the same camp. I love it when people publish their newsletters on the Web, too, with an RSS feed so I don't miss any edition. More often than not, I even link to a specific edition, like to share it on chat ("Hey, congrats, you made it into the Foo newsletter!").

tomayac, to homeassistant
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If you run a #HomeAssistant in your home, give #MusicAssistant a try. It's amazing! The power of starting an AirPlay stream from an Android device alone is gold! Music Assistant 2.0: Your Music, Your Players: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/music-assistant-2/.

tomayac, to random
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Starting my trip to in Singapore 🇸🇬. I'm co-chair of the Resource track (https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/resource) and will present a paper in the History of the Web track (https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/history-web) on "Toward Making Opaque Web Content More Accessible: Accessibility From Adobe Flash to Canvas-Rendered Apps". Anyone else from my timeline at the conference?

tomayac, to random
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Fantastic write-up of how the developer team pulled off 2916 (https://xkcd.com/2916/), "Machine": https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/. The source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/xkcd/incredible. 🌬️🔴

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.

I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17

tomayac,
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@gabrielesvelto Maybe saving someone else a Web search: Error correction code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that uses an error correction code (ECC) to detect and correct n-bit data corruption which occurs in memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory.

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