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.

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...

🎁 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 | 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 | blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...

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...

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

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/...

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...

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

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/...

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/...)

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

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 published a new issue of my newsletter. buttondown.com/ishadeed/arc...

Great to see @atopal.bsky.social talking Baseline yesterday along with Natalia and Michael at #GoogleIOConnect Berlin 👏

www.theverge.com/news/687519/... Ads are coming to WhatsApp

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technol... Lot of clouds down

Chrome browser releases in a 4-week cadence powered by Blink engine which shares the browser release version. So I'd estimate that in November 2028 (180 weeks), we'll see the release of Blink 182, finally.

is the fly dot io blog going to weigh in on the trump-musk feud

Well I guess that's my Spotify algo destroyed.

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a... You can search in the address bar with keywords like @bookmarks, @tabs, @history, and @actions, pretty cool

Well done 👏👏

Missed opportunity tbh

Hey friends, did you know you can make a modal <dialog> element dismissible by clicking outside (aka light dismiss) by adding `closedby=any` to it. That's it. That's all there is to it. <dialog closedby=any> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Chrome 134+, Firefox 140+, coming soon to Safari.

ECMAScript Excitement 🎉 Today, TC39 advanced these proposals: 4️⃣ Explicit Resource Management 4️⃣ Array.fromAsync 4️⃣ Error.isError 1️⃣ Keep trailing zeros in Intl.NumberFormat and Intl.PluralRules

Custom wallpapers. Link previews. Tab control. Try experimental features straight from your browser settings 🔥 blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/f...

10 Things I Learned Applying to 200 Positions in 1 Year: One of many stories about a tech market undergoing transformation. (If you’re out there on the market, don’t lose sight of your strengths. You are awesome.)

How do I build an accessible color palette? Well, I usually start with my default color. Then, I'm trying to make sure that I can always use the dark shade, with a light shade, with enough contrast for text on background (4.5:1). I used to do this manually, but, a color ramp tool / plugin can help!

EU enters with its own security bug database | www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/e...

github.com/mdn/content/... CSS View Transitions on the way in Firefox

Do color differences on devices matter for developers? 🤔 In our guest blog by @pgurtovaia.bsky.social, we cover: 👀 How humans perceive it 💻 How devices render it, and 🧑‍💻 What you, as a developer, need to know Dive deep 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

Is 512Kb a good sweet spot for balancing page weight and good UX? bsmth.de/joining-the-...

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." | blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/f...

🥳 We added new attributes to HTML to enhance <input type=color>: webkit.org/blog/16900/p...

Current vibe

Hardening GitHub Actions: Lessons from Recent Attacks | www.wiz.io/blog/github-...

Knowing when it's time to move on is really important. Kudos to Kev 🙏 kevquirk.com/blog/my-thou...

Ever wondered why colors look different across devices? 🌈 In the new blog by @pgurtovaia.bsky.social, you will learn, 👀 How humans perceive it 💻 How devices render it, and 🧑‍💻 What you, as a developer, need to know Dive deep 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...