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
- Vertical tabs stuff!
- Close buttons on vertical tabs
- Keyboard shortcut for vertical tabs
- Ctrl-Z on macOS
- Alt+Ctrl+Z on Linux and Windows
- Looks like it might ride out as an option in Firefox 136 (March?): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1936379
- Continuing to document CustomizableUI!
- What to do for the 400th episode??!
- Do a SPICY HACKING EPISODE. This is where I work on code while eating very spicy food on a regular interval (10 minutes per wing or something)
- We can examine some video game source code
- We could try to fix a Thunderbird bug
- We could try to fix the oldest possible Firefox bug during the episode (so find a really old bug, try to fix it in a one-shot)
- Write a simple add-on to do... something
- Try to do something with AI? How would we feel about that?
- We could write a tool that tries to pipe the transcript of past episodes into an LLM to produce video title suggestions.
- Revive Adso, and attempt to hand-roll our own captions using newer models
- Try to write... something in Rust?... I've done this before, but we could try again. Try to port a JS module to Rust for use with application-services.
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@mozilla.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