Bsmth, the bsmth guy

Testing ads in ChatGPT OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Testing Ads in ChatGPT | openai.com/index/testin...

Very pleased to have helped out as an editor on the Cookies chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac, which had 70 contributors this year. Congratulations to everyone who worked on it, and a massive thanks to @tunetheweb.com who does so much behind the scenes to get it published.

Calls to fast track Bill to criminalise harmful misuse of someone’s voice or image The Protection of Voice and Image Bill would target AI deepfakes and identity ‘hijacking’

Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse | www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 | refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn...

Ruby 4.0.0 Released | Ruby We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.

🎁 Ruby 4.0.0 | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left | twitter.com/ffaebi/statu...

Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2025.

Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review | radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...

Remember that shipping just before Christmas vacation is the ultimate Friday deployment.

When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em

When a video codec wins an Emmy | blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...

GPTZero uncovers 50+ Hallucinations in ICLR 2026 GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions | gptzero.me/news/iclr-20...

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) - About Netflix

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros | about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.

What will enter the public domain in 2026? | publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...

Bun is joining Anthropic Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Anthropic acquires Bun | bun.com/blog/bun-joi...

From the RedditEng community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the RedditEng community

Reddit migrates comment backend from Python to Go. Good read about the switchover

www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...

webR - R in the browser Interactive R environment running in your browser. Execute R code, create plots, and analyze data without installing anything.

WebR – R in the Browser | webr.sh

Last Issue of "ECMAScript News" | ecmascript.news/archive/es-n...

Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 Released | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours — worm slithered out and sparked a new era in cybersecurity The Internet contracted worms a year before the World Wide Web was even a thing.

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm | www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Launching MDN's new front end | MDN Blog MDN is getting a facelift 🎉 Discover what's changed, what's improved, and how navigating the site just got smoother.

MDN just got a glow-up! 🌟

We’ve completely rebuilt our front end, redesigned, reengineered, and ready to help you find what you need.

✨ New search
✨ Improved typography & code rendering
✨ Sleeker nav & icons

Read more 👇
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Screenshot of MDN Web Docs page for Array.prototype.findLastIndex() method. The page shows a browser compatibility section with a green checkmark indicating "Baseline Widely available" status, along with icons for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari browsers all showing checkmarks. Below this is explanatory text stating the feature has been available across browsers since August 2022, with links to "Learn more", "See full compatibility", and "Report feedback".

I don't know whose idea this "Baseline" stuff was, but man — it's *so* useful.

(Context: when you look up docs on MDN, it shows tells you if the feature is "natively supported in the core browser set for at least two major versions" - developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...)

Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

MDN is 20 years old! 🥳

🙏 A huge thank you to...
The devs who read and trust MDN
The contributors who improve it
Everyone working on the web platform who shares our mission.

Here's how we celebrated with the web.dev team! 🧁
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

You wouldn't download a compression dictionary

Oh yeah, that's pretty good. So I can track your beers now!

On Hacker News front page at the moment:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446...

For the last few months I've been curating a list of interesting links on this page instead of reposting them on socials. What do you think?

bsmth.de/links/

Dueling linters

I reviewed the pull request that adds this and I personally believe it's responsible advice. Here's the PR for the discussion and context: github.com/mdn/content/...

Smart Layouts, Gap Decorations, and a few links Hey friends, Welcome to a new issue of ishadeed.com newsletter. Speaking at CSS Day First, I spoke at CSS Day conference in Amsterdam. My talk was about...

✍️ I published a new issue of my newsletter.

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