The Joy of Coding

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Episode guide

• 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

• WindowsJumpLists! Let's keep going!
• TODO
  • [x] Rename nsIJumpListBuilder to nsILegacyJumpListBuilder
  • [x] Add createLegacyJumpListBuilder to nsIWinTaskBar to use the old mechanism
  • [x] Update WindowsJumpList to use the legacy interface
  • [x] Create a new nsIJumpListBuilder
  • [ ] Populate nsIJumpListBuilder using the code we developed in the previous iteration
  • [ ] Have createJumpListBuilder in nsIWinTaskBar use that
  • [ ] Update WindowsJumpLists to choose the right builder based on the pref and treat them correctly based on that pref.
  • [ ] Make a note to migrate the new jump list builder off of the dedicated lazy thread and use the IO thread pool instead.

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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
• 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!
• 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@fosstodon.org 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