On the process to code

gps blogs a bunch about his vision on how coding on Firefox should evolve. Sadly there's a bunch of process debt in commenting, so I'll put my comments in a medium where I already have an account. A lot of his thinking is based on Code First....

git-merge 2013

I spent Friday and Saturday on git-merge, an unconference on git. Thursday was developer day, for core contributors to git itself, and libgit2/jgit. I didn't go there. Friday was "user" day, and Saturday was hackday. I figured it might be useful...

Let me shake your hand

Timely for the 15 years of mozilla, let me share this with you. I was wearing my Firefox hoodie in a store in San Francisco last week. I was trying to find out what to buy, and a young guy came by. I did let him pass, but he didn't …

Notes on SemWiki

Semantic Wiki is nice, but it's hard to wrap one's head around. Thus, writing down some notes-to-non-self. Most importantly, start with paper. SemWiki isn't very forgiving if you reconsider. Once you've made some headway with paper, set up...

Why I deleted my account on facebook

I opened a facebook account a good while ago to be present in communication channels where our community is. I've closed that account, with a host of pending "friend" requests from community members, and here's why. On one hand, there's all the...

Mozilla Europe and Mozilla in Europe

The message below has been communicated to MozCamp Berlin attendees and Mozilla employees via email, signed by Mitchell Baker and Tristan Nitot, but this should be public, so it has been posted to mozilla.governance. We also wanted to put it on a...

Ask Pike at MozCamp Asia 2011

I'll be at MozCamp Asia 2011, and as I haven't been to Asia outside of India, I figured I should talk about the things you want me to talk about, and not about what's on my head. Thus, the session is gonna be titled "Ask Pike", and I'm fielding...

... sung to the tune of ...

Everytime I redesign I cry a little Everytime I change my mind I wonder why a little Sung to the tune of that song that Simply Red covered andbug 650816.

Why I hate git

wokbok:django-durationRel axelhecht$ git push -f Counting objects: 7, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 560 bytes, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)...

Coming soon: cross-repository network graphs for hg.m.o

Did you miss the ability to look at our source code and figure out who's working on what where? Thought that only github can do that? Let me give you a sneak peek at what I've been hacking on over the weekend. What's the big picture of our mainline code …