The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 299: Aug 31th, 2022

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• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Next week is Episode 300!
  • I’m going to see if I can contribute a fix to Thunderbird!
    • I started as a contractor working on Thunderbird for a subsidiary of Mozilla called Mozilla Messaging
    • MZLA Technologies now runs Thunderbird
  • Failing that, in anticipation for the upcoming Monkey Island game, I thought we could examine the ScummVM implementation of the SCUMM engine!
• No episodes on September 21st or September 28th due to travel
• Let’s review a patch!
• Goal: I want the JumpListManager to only ever be accessed off of the main thread, so that the main thread in the parent process never has to await a lock.
  • Get rid of maxListItems, since it doesn’t appear to be used
  • Get rid of isListCommitted
  • Make .available return a Promise
  • Make abortListBuild return a Promise
  • Make deleteActiveList return a Promise
  • Make SetAppUserModelId return a Promise
  • Make addListToBuild return a Promise
  • Make commitListBuild return a Promise instead of using that old callback mechanism
  • Update all of the callers of the above methods!
  • Remove locks and monitors
  • Migrate off of dedicated lazy thread to background thread pool
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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