Bsmth, the bsmth guy
@bsmth.de
Technical writer on the MDN Web docs team at Mozilla. I document the Web at developer.mozilla.org ✍️
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Testing Ads in ChatGPT | openai.com/index/testin...
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.
openai.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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.
The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀
We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible!
Check out the full report here: almanac.httparchive.org
We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible!
Check out the full report here: almanac.httparchive.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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.
Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse | www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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’
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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 | refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn...
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?
refactoringenglish.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 | refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn...
🎁 Ruby 4.0.0 | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...
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.
www.ruby-lang.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🎁 Ruby 4.0.0 | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...
iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left | twitter.com/ffaebi/statu...
twitter.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left | twitter.com/ffaebi/statu...
Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review | radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
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.
radar.cloudflare.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review | radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
Remember that shipping just before Christmas vacation is the ultimate Friday deployment.
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Remember that shipping just before Christmas vacation is the ultimate Friday deployment.
When a video codec wins an Emmy | blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
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
blog.mozilla.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
When a video codec wins an Emmy | blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions | gptzero.me/news/iclr-20...
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.
gptzero.me
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions | gptzero.me/news/iclr-20...
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros | about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...
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
about.netflix.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros | about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...
What will enter the public domain in 2026? | publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...
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.
publicdomainreview.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What will enter the public domain in 2026? | publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...
Anthropic acquires Bun | bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
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.
bun.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Anthropic acquires Bun | bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
Reddit migrates comment backend from Python to Go. Good read about the switchover
www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...
www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...
From the RedditEng community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the RedditEng community
www.reddit.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reddit migrates comment backend from Python to Go. Good read about the switchover
www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...
www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...
WebR – R in the Browser | webr.sh
webR - R in the browser
Interactive R environment running in your browser. Execute R code, create plots, and analyze data without installing anything.
webr.sh
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
WebR – R in the Browser | webr.sh
Last Issue of "ECMAScript News" | ecmascript.news/archive/es-n...
Last issue of "ECMAScript News"
ecmascript.news
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Last Issue of "ECMAScript News" | ecmascript.news/archive/es-n...
Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 Released | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...
Ruby 4.0.0 preview2 Released
www.ruby-lang.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 Released | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...
This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm | www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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.
www.tomshardware.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm | www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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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 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
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 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
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.
developer.mozilla.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
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 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
Reposted by Bsmth, the bsmth guy
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/...)
(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/...)
July 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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/...)
(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/...)
Reposted by Bsmth, the bsmth guy
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/...
🙏 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/...
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.
developer.mozilla.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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/...
🙏 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
July 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
You wouldn't download a compression dictionary
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/
bsmth.de/links/
Links and bookmarks - bsmth
Links to interesting articles, tech news, web dev features, and general good reads.
bsmth.de
July 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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/
bsmth.de/links/