Reminder - no plan survives breakfast.
- Feel free to send pull requests to the repo!
- Here’s a contributing guide!
- Here’s the guide for creating pull requests that smurfd used and recommends!
Today
- Firefox Desktop engineering presentation
- Slide deck
- https://projectfluent.org/
- Bug 1724199 - 10.09 - 9.23% sessionrestore_no_auto_restore / sessionrestore_no_auto_restore + 1 more (Windows) regression on Tue August 3 2021
- Questions:
- You're usually working on the Rapid Release of Firefox. If you write an important patch for a bug which is also applicable to Firefox ESR (with a much higher demand of stability), how does Mozilla decide which of these patches will land in the usually much older codebase?
- What books do you want to read/finish reading?
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- 2nd book of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- What are some small things that make your day better?
- Water, coffee, tea
- Going outside
- Shooting hoops
- Reading
- Cooking
- Cleaning
- Hanging out with my partner, and playing games. Broken Age.
- What have you created that you are most proud of?
- Picture-in-Picture
- Electrolysis (multi-process Firefox project)
- Fission project (out-of-process iframes) - honourable mention
- The Joy of Coding!
- People of mentored
Chat
- Join us in the Livehacking room on Mozilla’s Matrix instance! Here’s documentation on how to join. I’m only sorta monitoring the Twitch chat. A bot will try to bridge Matrix and Twitch (joc-bridgebot).
Links
- Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
- emilio hacks on Firefox!
- Compiler Compiler - watch a Mozilla engineer hack on the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine!
- How mconley uses Mercurial
- Fission - what is it, and how does it work?
- Andreas Kling hacks on a custom browser engine for a hand-rolled OS called SerenityOS
- The Joy of Coding: Community-Run Episode guide
- Feel free to send pull requests to the repo!
- Here’s the guide for creating pull requests that smurfd used and recommends!
- Check out Josh Marinacci hacking on Firefox Reality, our nascent VR browser!
- I've been mirroring the episodes to YouTube
- Code Therapy with Danny O’Brien
- Watch a developer put together a Windows game from scratch (no third-part engines) - really great explanations: https://handmadehero.org/
- /r/WatchPeopleCode for more livehacking!
Glossary
- BHR - “Background Hang Reporter”, a thing that records information about when Firefox performs poorly and sends it over Telemetry
- e10s ("ee ten ESS") - short for Electrolysis, which is the multi-process Firefox project
- CPOW ("ka-POW" or sometimes "SEE-pow") = Cross-Process Object Wrapper. See this blog post.
- Deserialize - "turn a serialized object back into the complex object”
- Serialize - "turn a complex object into something that can be represented as primitives, like strings, integers, etc
- Regression - something that made behaviour worse rather than better. Regress means to “go backward”, more or less.
- l10n - localization
- a11y - accessibility
- i18n - internationalization
- k8s - kubernetes
Feedback
- @mconley@mastodon.social on Mastodon
- @mike_conley on Twitter
- mconley in IRC on irc.mozilla.org
- mikeconley.ca/blog
- mconley at mozilla dot com