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
- Lots of episode guide pull requests to merge in!
- Let's work on center crop for moz-label
- FIRST, let us actually see if xul:label cannot be used. If it CAN be used, then this work is not necessary for the project
- No, cannot use xul:label in HTML documents, as suspected.
- We will re-implement XUL-style center cropping but for
moz-label, with a special property or some special mechanism in `moz-label` to indicate to the engine to use center crop.- Must have `value` and
crop="center"set to work - Getting and setting
textContentdirectly will forward tovaluein this configuration - Multiple text child nodes is not allowed in this configuration, and will warn / bail out of cropping.
- Must have `value` and
- We're going to be re-using much of the XUL center cropping stuff, and all of the l10n problems it entails
- We must guarantee a single text node as the child of moz-label
- FIRST, let us actually see if xul:label cannot be used. If it CAN be used, then this work is not necessary for the project
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
- Nathan Baggs
- 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!
- 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
- https://fosstodon.org/@mconley/ on Mastodon
- You can chat with me on Matrix at @mconley:mozilla.org
- mikeconley.ca/blog
- mconley at mozilla dot com