Wow! I’ve been a way from this blog for too long. I also haven’t posted any new episodes for The Joy of Coding. I also haven’t been keeping up with my Things I’ve Learned posts.
Time to get back in the saddle. First thing’s first, here are 6 episodes of The Joy of Coding that have aired. Unfortunately, I haven’t put together summaries for any of them, but I’ve put their agendas near the videos so that might give some clues.
Here we go!
A few months back, I started publishing my bug notes online, as a way of showing people what goes on inside a Firefox engineer’s head while fixing a bug.
This week, I’m upping the ante a bit: I’m going to live-hack on Firefox for an hour and a half for the next few Wednesday’s on Air Mozilla. I’m calling it The Joy of Coding1. I’ll be working on real Firefox bugs2 – not some toy exercise-bug where I’ve pre-planned where I’m going. It will be unscripted, unedited, and uncensored. But hopefully not uninteresting3!
Anyhow, the first episode airs this Wednesday. I’ll be using #livehacking on irc.mozilla.org as a backchannel. Not sure what bug(s) I’ll be hacking on – I guess it depends on what I get done on Monday and Tuesday.
Anyhow, we’ll try it for a few weeks to see if folks are interested in watching. Who knows, maybe we can get a few more developers doing this too – I’d enjoy seeing what other folks do to fix their bugs!
Anyhow, I hope to see you there!
Specifically, I’ll be working on Electrolysis bugs, since that’s what my focus is on these days. ↩
I’ve actually piloted this for the past few weeks, streaming on YouTube Live. Here’s a playlist of the pilot episodes. ↩
