The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

Volunteer-driven episode guide for The Joy of Coding

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Episode 179: Jun 5th, 2019

Links

• Watch this episode on new Air Mozilla
• Evernote Agenda

Topics

• Patch review for Bug 1505909
• Enhanced Tracking Protection started rolling out at 4th June.
  • Enable manually by going to Menu and Content Blocking then choosing the Strict option.
• Mercurial mojo :
  • hg rebase --dest tip to move that revision to the top of the tree
  • hg rebase :: --dest tip to move those revisions on top of the tree
  • hg rebase –abort if things doesnt go as expected
  • hg update -r tip switch to tip, then build and export the patch
• Prompter is a way to show alerts within a tab
• Aukkras was suggested to file a bug in Core::Widget:GTK for Restore Previous Session not working in Linux
• Mozilla will in the future, stop using IRC as public chat platform, follow the subject
• Mike is thinking of trying out Matrix for #Livehacking, get in touch with @mconley if you have used it

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