The Joy of Coding

Reminder - no plan survives breakfast.

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

• Failing tests:
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browseraboutdownloads.js
    • Why doesn't about:downloads have root.head??!
    • According to darktrojan: "XUL documents don't have an HTML head element, and about:downloads is a XUL document"
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browserblockedanddeletedstatus.js
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browserdownloadfailedmsg.js
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browserdownloadscontextmenudeletefile.js
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browserdownloadskeynav.js
  • browser/components/downloads/test/browser/browserpdfjspreview.js
  • Noticed that the <img> tags for dangerous downloads have a weird border around them. Please investigate.

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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

• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.

• • First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.

• Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor

• MyQOnly Mikes Addon for showing how many reviews are in your review queue - Source at Github

• mozconfigwrapper - A Wrapper to keep different mozconfigs

• Fission - Read more about it

• 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!

• 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

• 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