The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 310: Dec 21st, 2022

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• News: Mozilla and the Fediverse
• Still hacking on WindowsJumpLists!
  • 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
    • Add WebIDL for JumpListShortcutDescription and add populateJumpList method to JumpListBuilder.
    • Custom List (this is the Frequently Visited stuff) - Frequent is ENABLED by default - Recent is DISABLED by default - Don’t need separators
    • Tasks
    • Figure out how to make the above testable.
    • Make populateJumpList work to create jump list items all in one shot
    • Implement clearJumpList
    • See if the above works. If it does, get rid of old changes that we don’t need and merge patches down
    • Update WindowsJumpList.jsm to use the new API instead of the old one.
    • Update WindowsJumpList.jsm to be simpler so that it doesn’t try to do so much lazy stuff since now it’s all off of the main thread
    • Remove the old implementation! Hooray!
    • Migrate off of dedicated lazy thread to background thread pool
• Let’s look at Delores for fun to close out the year!
  • Frank Cifaldi from the Video Game History Foundation talks to Ron Gilbert about Monkey Island and shows off some of the source code and tools used to make the game work!
  • delores dev
• Questions:
  • “What is easiest way to succeed with applying an old patch, bump it to tip and deal with merge conflicts? To handle review feedback. Is it best to apply somewhere close in the Mercurial tree where it was committed?”
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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