The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

Volunteer-driven episode guide for The Joy of Coding

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Episode 104: July 5th, 2017

Links

• Watch this episode on air.mo
• Episode notes on Evernote

Topics

• Talos tests: Noisy tests, performance (tps) test graphs
• Date.now() as a (bad) way to instrument UI operations.
• Clock skew/drift between processes.
• Troubleshooting hung Talos test (locally)
• Triggering remote debugger (chrome) when running a Talos test
• Adjusting test parameters to narrow in on a problem, produce profiles for before/after comparisons
• Push to try tricks/syntax

Resource Links

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• Firefox Source Code Documentation
• mozconfigwrapper: A Wrapper to manage different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly: Mike's addon to track your review queues on Mozilla Phabricator
• Mike's Firefox Color Theme
• Firefox Monitor: Stay informed on new data breach of services you're using online
• Create a free Bugzilla account
• Codetribute: Find a good first bug to start contributing on a Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, and more). See the above link for creating a Bugzilla account first!
• Nathan Baggs livehacking / reverse engineering
• Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
• Emilio hacking on Firefox