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
- From the form: "You might want to mark https://bugzil.la/1738027 a duplicate of https://bugzil.la/1779280 from this stream, as it has the links back to the Tor bug 25660"
- Reminder - the Joy of Profiling has returned!
- Bug 1655509 - Assertion failure: Request::mDisconnected, at /builds/worker/workspace/obj-build/dist/include/mozilla/MozPromise.h:447
- Bug 1779280 - Still possible to open windows at about:privatebrowsing from the Windows Task Tray menu when in perma-PB mode.
- Bergamot!
- My colleague Aria's blog posts about rust-minidump (which powers some of our crash reporting infrastructure):
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipping-rust-minidump-at-mozilla/
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/fuzzing-rust-minidump-for-embarrassment-and-crashes/
- Thunderbird is, at long last, getting support for Firefox Sync!
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
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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
- Felicia Bacon
- nbp hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
- 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
- You can chat with me on Matrix at @mconley:mozilla.org
- mikeconley.ca/blog
- mconley at mozilla dot com