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
- Bug 1707582 - Intermittent /modules/test/browser/browser_UsageTelemetry_interaction.js | Expected to see the correct value for bookmark-item in bookmarks_bar. - "undefined" == 1 - JS frame :: /browser/modules/test/browser/browser_UsageTelemetry_interaction.js :: assert
- Plug for Replay (https://www.replay.io/)
- Let's look at a memory report
- Let's bump some probe expiries
- Questions:
- What are your thoughts on Proton redesign?
- I like it!
- When I was tinkering with Firefox I found a way to zoom text only: Menu Bar -> View -> Zoom -> Zoom text only. I find it extremely useful. Is there a reason why this could not be additionally accessed using "Zoom controls" or activated with some shortcut? + What is the process for deciding which items to select in menu bars/toolboxes?
- Have you ever read a book on e-ink paper?
- Yes
- I have a Kobo
- Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
- Some companies/teams once in a while have a time period when they focus solely on fixing bugs - what do you think about this approach? have you ever discussed this with your colleagues?
- Yes, I like this approach. We do this approach! It's a great way to fix papercuts and also to pay down technical debt.
- What are your thoughts on Proton redesign?
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