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
- https://mikeconley.ca/joc/
- /r/WatchPeopleCode, crosspost to /r/firefox/
- Reddit has recently expressed that they're going to compute link karma (Reddit karma) using blockchain technology.
- Congratulations shirshak55 on your patch for this bug!
- Code review: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D129326
FINALLY, answering:
WebExtensions and how they interact with DocShells / BrowsingContexts
- Reading up on DocShells
- A stream where I talked about DocShells and BrowsingContexts
nsISupports.QueryInterface vs nsIInterfaceRequestor.getInterface
QueryInterface ~= dynamic cast. "If you implement this interface, then expose these methods / properties / attributes to me"
GetInterface: "Get me something that implements a particular interface that is relevant to you, but is not necessarily you"
Next time:
- How a patch gets into Firefox, from start to finish!
- Other questions:
- Are you actively learning to draw on your new graphics tablet?
- Yes! Following YouTube tutorial on using Krita to do a Bob Ross painting.
- Are you actively learning to draw on your new graphics tablet?
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