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bsmth

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About bsmth

Staff Product Manager, Enterprise @ Mozilla

I work on Enterprise Firefox, helping organizations deploy and manage Firefox at scale. Previously, I documented web platform technologies at MDN Web Docs, and before that Head of Content at QuestDB (YC S20).

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    I have an LG at home and I seem to remember it being the top device that appears in my pihole client list by number of blocked requests.

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    I can imagine if it's deeply nested data, your markup might get complex, but the structure of the HTML doesn't have to mirror the JSON. There's other examples here which might illu…

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    You might be interested in data attributes for this use case https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/How_to/Use... although it depends on the shape of the JSON data you h…

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    Thanks for sharing. The best place to raise issues now is the content repo: https://github.com/mdn/content

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    Oh hi! Thanks for the great quiz

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    Post by the author Sam Rose about it: https://bsky.app/profile/samwho.dev/post/3ltpdkr3bmk2o

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    If you're shipping a JS bundle, for instance, that has small, frequent updates, this should be a good use case. There's a test site here that accompanies the explainer which looks …

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    Nice to see this posted, this is something I occasionally have to look up. If you find it interesting, Mozilla has an equivalent here: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions…

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    Blog author here, I have to admit I enjoyed your comment. This is because it's mostly reference documentation, so each method of each class has it's own page, for example: https://…

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    It might be worth trying the moderation tools that prevent interactions from accounts less than 24 hours old. Docs here https://docs.github.com/en/communities/moderating-comments-a…

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    I understand, thanks a lot for the context. The bug titles aren't always very descriptive, so we try to make a good TL;DR on this page. The prose should describe each change as a c…

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    Heya, MDN technical writer here. Do you want to share a little more details about what you expect to see on the page? Thanks!

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    That's a good idea. I'll have a think about a JS only example, although the reference pages have some, they log results to the console and so I thought some HTML might be interesti…

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    Blog post author here in case there's any feedback or questions. Thanks for sharing :)

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    Blog post author here (thank you for sharing). I agree, unskippable ads are one of the not-so-nice uses of this API, and considered a dark pattern by most people. That's something …

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    Thanks, I was restricted by the character limit :)

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    That's quite cool. How are feeds added? Is it all manual curation and submissions?

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    I'd also add a link here to `dirname` which is an interesting one for including text directionality of text input in form submissions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/…