At Mozilla we share a lot of open source libraries. When you’re using someone else’s library, you might find that an upgrade breaks something in your application — but why? Glancing at the library’s changelog can help. However, manually maintaining … Continue reading
Bedrock, the code behind www.mozilla.org, is a very large Django project. It is mostly large due to the volume and diversity of independent pages it serves. These pages come with a surprising amount of static media (css, js, images, fonts, … Continue reading
I recently acquired a new development laptop and moved a number of local Git repositories from my old machine to my new machine. In doing so I also changed the folder structure, and when trying to run some code I … Continue reading
I recently moved a Django app to Heroku which was using peep, rather than pip, for package installation. By default Heroku will use pip to install your required packages when it sees a requirements.txt file in the root of your … Continue reading
I write a lot of webapps. I like to use Python for the backend, but most frontend tools are written in Node.js. LESS gives me nicer style sheets, Babel lets me write next-generation JavaScript, and NPM helps manage dependencies nicely. … Continue reading
We WebDev contributors at Mozilla often meet face to face over video but we haven’t actually seen each others workspaces. Here is a small sampling of WebDev desks, inspired by those of 37 Signals. Kumar McMillan Location: Chicago, IL, USA … Continue reading
Once a month, web developers from across Mozilla get together to practice our dowsing technique. While we compare the latest models of dowsing rods, we find time to talk about the work that we’ve shipped, share the libraries we’re working … Continue reading
Once a month, web developers from across the Mozilla Project get together to speedrun classic video games. Between runs, we find time to talk about our side projects and drink, an occurrence we like to call “Beer and Tell”. There’s … Continue reading
Once a month, web developers from across Mozilla don our VR headsets and connect to our private Minecraft server to work together building giant idols of ourselves for the hoards of cows and pigs we raise to worship as gods. … Continue reading
September’s Beer and Tell has come and gone. A practical lesson in the ephemeral nature of networks interrupted the live feed and the recording, but fear not! A wiki page archives the meeting structure and this very post will lay … Continue reading
