The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 215: May 13th, 2020

Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out
Bug 1622088 - Write automated tests for the about:home caching mechanism
Bug 1633913 - Eliminate re-construction of Top Sites and Pocket stories when about:home startup cache loads before Activity Stream initializes
- (Short description, activity stream flickers when opening about:home)
Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
- First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.
Talked about how the http cache works.
Talked about how the omni.jar file works.
Explained the difference between ‘mach try’ and add a patch to Phabricator.
Mozilla has Code coverage
If you ‘hg amend’ and get Orphaned changesets, you can fix that with ‘hg evolve’
Hit the escape key in Browser toolbox to get the terminal at the bottom
You can not json encode a undefined value
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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
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