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
- keanu.codes - HTTP code 412
- Update the episode guide
- A lot of permalinks are broken in the episode guide! Not all of them, but a lot of them.
- Shout-out to Canova, who streamed himself hacking on Firefox Profiler things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-oFRnS0M4
- Advice / tips for people who want to start livehacking (Mozillians or otherwise)
- Practice. This takes muscle!
- See if you can do 1 hour, 1.5 hours, and see what it does to your voice. See if you can concentrate and actually do things. Watch the recording afterwards - were there big periods of silence where you were thinking in your head and not speaking?
- Do a pilot episode and don't make a big deal out of it.
- Hardware
- Get a good microphone. A Blue Yeti is a classic USB mic that podcasters use. I'm using a Rode NT-1 with a USB interface. Roland UA-25EX.
- Get a decent camera - I'm using an OBSBot Tiny.
- Use OBS and explore. OBS = Open Broadcaster Software
- Have a separate display for OBS.
- Turn off notifications on your software when streaming!
- Shut down non-necessary software that you don't streamed!
- Have a consistent schedule if you can
- Reduce how much overhead there is to produce an episode.
- Practice. This takes muscle!
- Another moz-cached-ohttp image bug!
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