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Thomas Steiner

Personal blog · blog.tomayac.com · on HN as tomayacwebprogramming

Thomas Steiner writes Blogccasion, a personal blog at blog.tomayac.com about web and programming. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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26mentions?
9HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Thomas Steiner's posts on progressive enhancement and Progressive Web Apps. The one HN comment links his progressive enhancement post as a parallel to the 'P' in PWA, with no judgement of the writing.

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The personal blog of Thomas Steiner

The author on HN?

tomayac · 259 karma · member since 2012

https://blog.tomayac.com/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-17
  2. Progressive Enhancement in the Age of Fugu APIs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
  3. Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. The "P" in Progressive Web App: https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t... Reminds me of the "P" in Progressive Enhancement: https://blog.tomayac.com/2020/01/23/progressive-enhancement-... There are many valid reasons to support the full "PWA experience" and have fallbacks that works without JavaScript, and it is attainable. I have personally built PWAs that work offline with JavaScript enabled,…

    Comment linking /2020/01/23/progressive-enhancement-in-the-age-of-fugu-apis/

    on “All Programming Is Web Programming (2009)”
  2. Submitted Things not available when someone blocks all cookies as a story · 538 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please? as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted 14 Years at Google as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Refueling an EV Be Like as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted An evergreen template for running Node.js in a Hugging Face Space as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted So, what did Apple break in the EU? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Play the Chrome dino game on your Nintendo Switch as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Multi-MIME Type Copying with the Async Clipboard API as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Progressive Enhancement in the Age of Fugu APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Why browsers download stylesheets with non-matching media queries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted A polyfill for the HTML switch element as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted iOS Continuity Camera only works in “magic pose” as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Cross Platform Software Frameworks as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Not everyone's currently building for the Web, but probably more people should as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Reflections on Project Fugu as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted `prefers-color-scheme` in SVG favicons for dark mode icons as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Animated SVG Favicons as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Inspecting Facebook's WebView as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Brotli Compression with Mod_pagespeed and Ngx_pagespeed as a story · 1 points

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