The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 148: September 5th, 2018

Links

• Watch this episode on new Air Mozilla
• Evernote Agenda

Shoutouts

• Les Orchard Hacks on Firefox Color
• Josh Marinacci Hacks on Firefox Reallity

Topics

• Mikes Firefox Color Theme
• Went over how Firefox Color compresses some JS object into a string with lzma.js, and we decompressed it
• Themes can be decompressed and turned into a WebExtension theme
• Insecure HTTP padlock and label (enable these prefereces in about:config):
• security.insecure_connection_icon.enabled
• security.insecure_connection_text.enabled
• Bug1480951 - Cleared sessionStorage is resurrected when reopening Firefox
• File a bug for how crazy DevTools was today, graphically. Super-flashy!
  • Update: This got fixed here!
• No stream next week

Episode 150 ideas?!

• Got ideas? Submit them in the Episode Rating form!
• AMA
• Work on some kind of user voted bug?
• Build a WebExtension to do something from scratch?
• Explore some other Mozilla project?
• Explore a non-Mozilla project and try to understand it?
• Explain some part of the codebase?
• Normal episode? (But wear a funny hat)?

Submit your ideas via Rate this episode

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