Bsmth, the bsmth guy

Web Speech API - Web APIs | MDN The Web Speech API enables you to incorporate voice data into web apps. The Web Speech API has two parts: SpeechSynthesis (Text-to-Speech), and SpeechRecognition (Asynchronous Speech Recognition.)

playing with the Web Speech API synthesiser to narrate my blog posts,

not sure how to stop it speaking over the native screen reader 🤔

anyone know the trick?

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

WhatsApp is officially getting ads The end of an ad-free WhatsApp.

www.theverge.com/news/687519/...

Ads are coming to WhatsApp

Broad Cloudflare service outages Cloudflare's Status Page - Broad Cloudflare service outages.

Cloudflare Investigating Incident | www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25...

Something tells me the cloudflare incident is because they rely on some GCP services

GCP Outage | status.cloud.google.com

Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technol...

Lot of clouds down

Have we considered rolling our own crypto for this?

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.

Thank you 🙏 I fear it may be too late for my poor algo, though.

Recommend calling it "toddler mode"

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

Feature request: Spotify containers to isolate your profile algo from this

Well I guess that's my Spotify algo destroyed.

I also did a double-take on that one

A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar  | The Mozilla Blog Firefox’s address bar just got an upgrade, and it’s all about putting you in control. It’s faster, easier to use and built to support how you search

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

HTMLDialogElement: closedBy property - Web APIs | MDN The closedBy property of the HTMLDialogElement interface indicates the types of user actions that can be used to close the associated <dialog> element. It sets or returns the dialog's closedby attribu...

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

It's version 139 that's just landed as stable www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

But it's awesome 🙏 thanks to community contributions, it's here!

Jump into Firefox Labs: A place to try new features and help shape Firefox | The Mozilla Blog Ever thought, “I wish I could try that new Firefox feature early?” Good news – we’ve been trying out new features and now, you can try them out, to

Custom wallpapers. Link previews. Tab control.

Try experimental features straight from your browser settings 🔥 blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/f...