Thomas Steiner
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Thomas Steiner
@tomayac.com
Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web, WebAssembly, and Project Fugu 🐡. Dad-of-3.
Super relieved that eventually all of my live demos at my #JSNation talk "AI Right in the Browser With Chrome’s Built-in AI APIs" worked. Here are the slides with links to all demos: goo.gle/jsnation-bui.... (Photos courtesy of @tunetheweb.com.)
June 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📢 New article on Chrome's built-in #WebAI effort: Best practices for AI session management with the Prompt API. This post introduces best practices for session management with the Prompt API 🧠: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/ai-s.... The demo was fun to build and shows a few independent AI sessions.
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🤩 I'm extremely excited to release episode 1 of my monthly podcast 🎧 #WasmAssembly!

From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai (@azakai.bsky.social):

wasmassembly.libsyn.com (See there for links to Spotify, YouTube,…)

Learn about the early #WebAssembly history from a #Wasm co-creator!
April 26, 2024 at 9:03 AM
So, what exactly did Apple break in the EU 🇪🇺? A new blog post in which I analyze the current situation for Home Screen Web Apps on iOS 17.4 in the European Union: blog.tomayac.com/2024/02/so-w....
#Apple #iOS #DMA #PWA #EuropeanUnion
February 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Just tried to close this ad by clicking the close ‘X’ button when reading www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23.... I’m not making this up.
September 4, 2023 at 5:08 AM
People who have a smart watch but use a "minimalist" watch face. I have questions… https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pixel-watch-2-watch-face-accessible-just-time.png.webp
August 1, 2023 at 9:14 AM
📢 Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta:

https://blog.tomayac.com/2023/06/07/web-apps-on-macos-sonoma-14-beta/

With macOS Sonoma, Apple goes all-in on the concept of installable web apps. They're highly integrated in the overall macOS experience and don't give away their web roots.
June 7, 2023 at 12:55 PM
🙋 My browser…

👉 `Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1` 👈

…is 🟩 26% Fugu 🐡!

How Fugu 🐡 is yours? Find out at https://howfuguismybrowser.dev and share on #HowFuguIsMyBrowser!
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June 6, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Messing around in Settings (https://staging.bsky.app/settings), I just stumbled upon Storybook (https://staging.bsky.app/sys/debug). Interesting… 👀
June 2, 2023 at 8:57 AM