The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

Volunteer-driven episode guide for The Joy of Coding

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Episode 110: August 23rd, 2017

Links

• Watch this episode on air mozilla
• Evernote Agenda

Topics

• Troubleshooting mochitest perma-orange caused by bug 1385453
• Stepping through the test, cross-referencing logs to understand where the test fails.
• mach mochitest path/to/test.js –run-until-failure
• Identifying culprit: mouse pointer position in automation, tab hover state and the new warm-up tabs on hover
• sendNativeMouseMove and friends.
• Moving the mouse pointer out of the way in mochitest/browser-test.js,

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