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#Canadian, #Mozillian, Software mechanic. I help to make #firefox fast + smooth. I mentor folks hacking on #reviewboard. Also: sound designer/musician, and haunted […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@mconley, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 432! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !
We're going to try to get the patches for the remote newtab renderer prototype ship-shape for review today. We might find some more places for writing tests too, while we're at it.
Starts at 1PM ET! […]
If you weren't already aware, Gorillaz recently released a new album, and it's pretty great.
I also _love_ the artwork in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRulNQsuYQ
Maybe I've been watching too much Pitt, but "See One, Do One, Teach One" can also translate to various software engineering team duties.
A "Emergency Assistance" intercom mechanism in an underground parking lot has been subtly vandalized, with the "I" removed, so it reads "Emergency Ass Stance"
Exquisite
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 431! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !
I have a rough prototype of the remote newtab UI downloading mechanism that we've been tinkering with the last few weeks. Let's clean it up a bit and try to make it more robust!
Today will be a […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/116123227412288110
What the hell
Welp, time to go shovel some snow.
Jack Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player.
It's also a great name for a French detective character, if anybody is looking for one.
I find this so soothing:
https://youtu.be/wO61D9x6lNY?si=fPaDgeBjpCvTC0M7
https://www.filfre.net/2026/02/gabriel-knight-3-blood-of-the-sacred-blood-of-the-damned/
Pretty good day for #Canada, honestly.
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 430! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !
I'm going to try to walk through a hack-y prototype patch I've written to get the newtab UI code from our Remote Settings service. I also want to describe a new strategy for getting the cached streams […]
New music from #Failure! Excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Z5OXxLRRQ
A note that "confidently incorrect" is not just an LLM problem. It is also a human problem.
I see it all of the time, particularly in nerdier spaces like here on the Fediverse, Reddit or Hacker News.
Marshall McLuhan wrote about how a communications medium _biases and shapes_ the messages […]
Frodo: "If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring."
Galadriel: "You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.
In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a QUEEN!
[epic winds]
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the SEA! […]
Some people don't know about Pouding Chômeur, and that's such a shame! It's a French-Canadian classic! This is the recipe I use:
https://youtube.com/shorts/KEYYdKHrOCI?si=Jo0s8EN0uZnnu_SW
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/air-transat-suspending-all-flights-to-u-s-as-of-this-spring?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ca
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 429! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !
I'm going to answer a viewer question about testing, and then let's dig deep into options for updating the UI of Firefox's New Tab more frequently!
Starts at 1PM ET:
https://mikeconley.ca/joc/
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcottawa_mirror/116037982932210861
End of an era.
Rock out with your holoprojector out
More punk music
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbccanada_mirror/116035729876282693
I was _convinced_ humans would have returned to the Moon before the Eglinton Crosstown was finished. Close, but no cigar!
If you want a cool, visual, interactive, webby summary of the tragedy that is the Eglinton Crosstown, here ya go:
https://www.thestar.com/interactives/timeline-of-the-eglinton-lrt/article_a054861a-6ae8-439e-b20a-af9b76f14fb8.html
(I cannot vouch for the accessibility of sites like this) […]
The Joy of Coding returns with Episode 428! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !
The activation window patches we've been working on for a few weeks have landed, but there's some follow-up automated testing to write. Let's try that today! Or maybe we'll do something completely different […]
Also, how did I miss this bonus track? Feels like a Hail to the Thief B-Side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuHVXgR8dA
HT to @ddurst who convinced me to give King of Limbs another listen. I'd mostly dismissed it with a "welp, I don't understand this album I guess" - but I think he's right; at least for me, it kinda needs to be watched to be appreciated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCYzXDYN_vk
I'm thinking of building and releasing a game engine, called Theseus' Engine.
Every release is version 1.0.
A tale as old as time.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
I was reminded of this over the weekend when talking to some people about Catherine O'Hara. It's worth listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rj-Pz1vag&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv
