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
- Twitch / Matrix bridge appears to be working again. Hooray!
- Winter Holiday episode: December 15th! Ideas for episodes:
- We watch Code Rush together, and I provide commentary
- I play a game I wrote in QBasic back when I was first learning how to program
- SpiderMonkey hacking with BackToTheCode!
- Needinfos:
- Bug 1742491 - DevTools Toolbox inappropriately creates new MessageHandlerFrameChild instances
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/dom/ipc/jsactors.html
- Bug 1742585 - PIP button z-index not respected with semi-transparent div
- Bug 1741694 - browser.search.search() doesn't work reliably with fission enabled
- Bug 1733580 - PiP toggle glitch in High Contrast Mode
- Bug 1575379 - [meta] Make it possible to capture non-warm startup times using frame recording
- Bug 1741634 - The search box moves left and right every you type.
- Bug 1742491 - DevTools Toolbox inappropriately creates new MessageHandlerFrameChild instances
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