The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 214: Apr 29th, 2020

Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out
Going back to no background music. Better?
Bug 1630234 - About:newtab does not maintain the scroll position after navigating back to the page - Notes
Telemetry network request during tests
Bug 1633913 - Eliminate re-construction of Top Sites and Pocket stories when about:home startup cache loads before Activity Stream initializes
Gecko as a web application framework
- Positron
- Qbrt
rr and gdb debugging
gdb tips, Ctrl+x+a will give you a GUI. Ctrl+x+a again will get you back to normal
./mach xpcshell-test /path/to/test.js to run xpcshell tests
./mach try fuzzy –pernosco –rebuild 5
Pernosco is a web frontend for rr that makes it so you can debug a build with rr from within a CI system as if it where run on a physical machine
Landed some revisions
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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
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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