The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

Volunteer-driven episode guide for The Joy of Coding

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Episode 0098

April 19th, 2017

Watch this episode: https://air.mozilla.org/the-joy-of-coding-episode-98/

Reminder - no plan survives breakfast.

• Self-check: is everything working!
• Reminder: No episode next week (April 26th, 2017)!
• 100th Episode Survey
• Help make Firefox Faster! https://perf-html.io/ Gather a profile, and then Gimme your Performance Profiles!
• Episode guide idea! (Thanks sfoster!)
• Update: Bug 1336763 - Only message for permitUnload on tabs that have indicated that they contain a frame that has a beforeunload handler - Notes
  • Wrote some tests! Let’s polish those off.
• Bug 1352501 - Remove Reader Mode feature promotion panel - Notes
• Oh no! Reflow!
  • Fix Reflow API bug so that we can track reflows in new windows
  • Add signatures thing
  • File a bug and maybe post a patch for getting frame count in nsIReflowObserver notification
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Links

• Facebook Page for The Joy of Coding
• The Joy of Diagnosis!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL44ErfqJXs
• Livehacking on Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/channels/livehacking/
• The Joy of Automation with Armen
• I’ve been mirroring the episodes to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmaFLMwlbk8wKMvfEEzp9Hfdlid8VYpL5
• The Joy of Illustrating - Episode 1 - Watch @mart3ll blow your mind with designs from the Mozilla Creative team!
• Lost in Data - sheriffing performance regressions in pushes for Firefox
• The Hour of Design - watch one of our designers demystify the design process!
• 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!
• Watch @mrrrgn code to techno: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ggHzjP5TepAxkrQyQCyJg
• M8 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cf_tracking_e10s%3Am8%2B&list_id=12396117

Glossary

• 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.
• Serialize - “turn a complex object into something that can be represented as primitives, like strings, integers, etc”
• Deserialize - “turn a serialized object back into the complex object”
• BHR - “Background Hang Reporter”, a thing that records information about when Firefox performs poorly and sends it over Telemetry

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