Blog Posts

• Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral (2024-12-03)
• My Shifting Open Source Priorities (2024-03-17)
• My User Experience Porting Off setup.py (2023-10-30)
• Achieving A Completely Open Source Implementation of Apple Code Signing and Notarization (2022-08-08)
• Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner (2022-05-10)
• Expanding Apple Ecosystem Access with Open Source, Multi Platform Code Signing (2022-04-25)
• Bulk Analyze Linux Packages with Linux Package Analyzer (2022-01-09)
• Rust Implementation of Debian Packaging Primitives (2022-01-03)
• Why You Shouldn't Use Git LFS (2021-05-12)
• Pure Rust Implementation of Apple Code Signing (2021-04-14)
• Rust is for Professionals (2021-04-13)
• Modern CI is Too Complex and Misdirected (2021-04-07)
• Surprisingly Slow (2021-04-06)
• Announcing the 0.9 Release of PyOxidizer (2020-10-18)
• Announcing the 0.8 Release of PyOxidizer (2020-10-12)
• Using Rust to Power Python Importing With oxidized_importer (2020-05-10)
• PyOxidizer 0.7 (2020-04-09)
• Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 (2020-01-13)
• Problems with Pull Requests and How to Fix Them (2020-01-07)
• C Extension Support in PyOxidizer (2019-06-30)
• Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer (2019-06-24)
• On Algorithms and Interviewing (2019-01-17)
• What I've Learned About Optimizing Python (2019-01-10)
• Seeking Employment (2019-01-07)
• PyOxidizer Support for Windows (2019-01-06)
• Faster In-Memory Python Module Importing (2018-12-28)
• Distributing Standalone Python Applications (2018-12-18)
• Absorbing Commit Changes in Mercurial 4.8 (2018-11-05)
• Global Kernel Locks in APFS (2018-10-29)
• Benefits of Clone Offload on Version Control Hosting (2018-07-27)
• Deterministic Firefox Builds (2018-06-20)
• Scaling Firefox Development Workflows (2018-05-16)
• Revisiting Using Docker (2018-05-16)
• Release of python-zstandard 0.9 (2018-04-09)
• High-level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them (2017-12-11)
• Good Riddance to AUFS (2017-12-08)
• from __past__ import bytes_literals (2017-03-13)
• Better Compression with Zstandard (2017-03-07)
• Mercurial, SHA-1, and Trusting Version Control (2017-02-28)
• MozReview Git Support and Improved Commit Mapping (2016-02-08)
• Making MozReview Faster by Disregarding RESTful Design (2016-01-13)
• Investing in the Firefox Build System in 2016 (2016-01-11)
• hg.mozilla.org replication updates (2016-01-05)
• Mozilla Mercurial Extension Updates (2015-12-16)
• hg.mozilla.org Updates (2015-11-05)
• Cloning Improvements in Mercurial 3.6 (2015-10-22)
• Append I/O Performance on Windows (2015-10-22)
• Lowering the Barrier to Pushing to MozReview (2015-10-14)
• Serving Mercurial Clones from a CDN (2015-09-01)
• JSON APIs on hg.mozilla.org (2015-08-18)
• moz.build metadata on hg.mozilla.org (2015-08-04)
• hg.mozilla.org Operational Workings Now Open Sourced (2015-08-04)
• Mercurial 3.5 Released (2015-07-31)
• My Contributions to Mercurial 3.5 (2015-07-31)
• Prompting to Run mach mercurial-setup (2015-07-17)
• MozReview Statistics July 2015 (2015-07-16)
• Cloning From S3 (2015-07-08)
• Publish When Pushing to MozReview (2015-07-07)
• Changeset Metadata on hg.mozilla.org (2015-06-04)
• Important Changes to MozReview (2015-05-29)
• Faster Cloning from hg.mozilla.org With Server Provided Bundles (2015-05-29)
• Firefox Mercurial Repository with CVS History (2015-05-18)
• Notes from Git Merge 2015 (2015-05-12)
• Dropping Explicit Support for Mercurial 3.0 (2015-05-07)
• Reporting Mercurial Issues (2015-05-04)
• Mercurial 3.4 Released (2015-05-04)
• Automatically Redirecting Mercurial Pushes (2015-04-30)
• My Current Thoughts on System Administration (2015-04-17)
• Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk (2015-03-28)
• New High Scores for hg.mozilla.org (2015-03-19)
• Network Events (2015-03-18)
• Lost Productivity Due to Non-Unified Repositories (2015-02-17)
• Branch Cleanup in Firefox Repositories (2015-01-28)
• Commit Part Numbers and MozReview (2015-01-27)
• Automatic Python Static Analysis on MozReview (2015-01-24)
• End to End Testing with Docker (2015-01-24)
• Bugzilla and the Future of Firefox Development (2015-01-16)
• Modern Mercurial Documentation for Mozillians (2015-01-15)
• Major bzexport Updates (2015-01-13)
• Utilizing GitHub for Firefox Development (2015-01-12)
• Code First and the Rise of the DVCS and GitHub (2015-01-10)
• Firefox Contribution Process Debt (2015-01-09)
• Style Changes on hg.mozilla.org (2015-01-09)
• Mercurial Pushlog Is Now Robust Against Interrupts (2014-12-30)
• Firefox Source Documentation Versus MDN (2014-12-30)
• Why hg.mozilla.org is Slow (2014-12-19)
• mach sub-commands (2014-12-18)
• A Crazy Day (2014-12-04)
• The Mozlandia Tree Outage and Code Review (2014-12-04)
• Test Drive the New Headless Try Repository (2014-11-20)
• Mercurial Server Hiccup 2014-11-06 (2014-11-07)
• Soft Launch of MozReview (2014-10-30)
• Implications of Using Bugzilla for Firefox Patch Development (2014-10-27)
• The Rabbit Hole of Using Docker in Automated Tests (2014-10-16)
• Robustly Testing Version Control at Mozilla (2014-10-14)
• Deterministic and Minimal Docker Images (2014-10-13)
• Mozilla Mercurial Statistics (2014-09-30)
• On Monolithic Repositories (2014-09-09)
• Reproducing Mozilla's Mercurial Server (2014-09-05)
• New Job Role (2014-09-05)
• Submit Feedback about Mercurial (2014-08-19)
• Mercurial hooks move and testing Mercurial (2014-08-18)
• Please run mach mercurial-setup (2014-07-25)
• Repository-Centric Development (2014-07-24)
• Updates to firefoxtree Mercurial extension (2014-07-16)
• Python Packaging Do's and Don'ts (2014-07-15)
• Update Bugzilla Automatically on Push (2014-06-30)
• Track Firefox Repositories with Local-Only Mercurial Tags (2014-06-30)
• Please Stop Using MQ (2014-06-23)
• Using Mercurial for Status Reports (2014-04-01)
• How Promises and Tasks are Improving Tests (2014-03-30)
• New Repository for Mozilla Version Control Tools (2014-02-05)
• The Mercurial Revlog (2014-02-05)
• Review Board at Mozilla (2014-01-27)
• Aggregating Version Control Info at Mozilla (2014-01-21)
• Things Mozilla Could Do with Mercurial (2014-01-17)
• mach now lives in mozilla-central (2014-01-09)
• Why do Projects Support old Python Releases (2014-01-08)
• On Multiple Patches in Bugs (2014-01-07)
• Python Package Providing Clients for Mozilla Services (2014-01-06)
• Importance of Hosting Your Version Control Server (2013-11-13)
• Mercurial 2.8 released (2013-11-08)
• Using Mercurial to query Mozilla metadata (2013-11-08)
• MacBook Pro Firefox Build Times Comparison (2013-11-05)
• Distributed Compiling and Firefox (2013-10-31)
• OS X Mavericks and the Firefox Build System (2013-10-22)
• Alternate Mercurial Server for Firefox Development (2013-10-17)
• The State of the Firefox Build System (2013 Q3 Review) (2013-10-15)
• Phabricator is Awesome (2013-10-14)
• Why Firefox builds are slow (2013-10-01)
• Important Ubuntu bootstrap update (2013-09-12)
• Hosting Mozilla services with Stackato (2013-09-04)
• Visualizing Mozilla's release infrastructure machine efficiency (2013-08-30)
• Mercurial setup wizard for Firefox development (2013-07-29)
• Track pushes and train riding with Mercurial (2013-07-25)
• Mercurial Extension for Gecko Development (2013-07-22)
• Analysis of Firefox's Build Automation (2013-07-16)
• Quantifying Mozilla's Automation Efficiency (2013-07-14)
• The Importance of Time on Automated Machine Configuration (2013-06-24)
• Using Docker to Build Firefox (2013-05-19)
• Build System Status Update 2013-05-14 (2013-05-13)
• Mozilla Build System Brain Dump (2013-05-13)
• The State of Mercurial at Mozilla (2013-05-13)
• Thoughts on Mercurial (and Git) (2013-05-12)
• Mozilla Automation Load Over Time (2013-05-06)
• SQLite.jsm - SQLite Done Betterer (2013-04-14)
• Making hg-git Faster (2013-04-14)
• Bulk Analysis of Mozilla's Build and Test Data (2013-04-01)
• Omnipresent mach (2013-03-03)
• moz.build Files and the Firefox Build System (2013-02-28)
• Thoughts on Logging - Part 1 - Structured Logging (2012-12-06)
• Changes to How mach Loads mozconfigs (2012-12-05)
• Firefox Build System Presentation (2012-11-30)
• Mach Has Landed (2012-09-26)
• Bootstrap Your System to Build Firefox (2012-09-18)
• Visual Studio Project Generation for mozilla-central (2012-08-28)
• Build Firefox Faster with Build Splendid (2012-08-15)
• mozilla-central Build Times (2012-07-29)
• Mozilla Build System Overview (2012-07-29)
• Makefile Execution Times (2012-07-28)
• Mozilla Build System Plan of Attack (2012-07-25)
• One Year at Mozilla (2012-07-18)
• Improving Mozilla's Build System (2012-06-25)
• Finding Oldest Firefox Code (2012-06-18)
• Smaller Firefox Build Logs (2012-05-23)
• Python Bindings Updates in Clang 3.1 (2012-05-14)
• Better Sharing of Test Code in Mozilla Projects (2012-05-10)
• Improving the Mozilla Build System Experience (2012-05-07)
• Comparing the Security and Privacy of Browser Syncing (2012-04-08)
• Gone with the Wind Thoughts (2012-02-26)
• Blogging Again (2012-01-28)