We recently released Email Tabs in Firefox Test Pilot. This was a project I championed, and I wanted to offer some context on it.
Email Tabs is a browser add-on that makes it easier to compose an email message from your tabs/pages. The experiment page describes how it works …
About ten years ago I got a call out of the blue from Soren. I’d always published my phone number on my website, and it’s only been used a handful of times. Hardly anyone wants to actually call another person.
Soren had come upon a post of mine …
Firefox Screenshots is the first Test Pilot experiment to graduate into Firefox, and it’s been surprisingly successful. You won’t see many people talking about it: it does what you expect, and it doesn’t cover new ground. Mozilla should do more of this.
One of …
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A while back we got our first contributor to PageShot, who contributed a feature he wanted for Outernet – the ability to use PageShot to create readable and packaged versions …
When we were expecting our first, when we couldn’t actually do anything but wait while Emily’s body did all the parenting that could be done, when we spent a lot of time on idle research, I looked up mammary glands on Wikipedia.
The theory is that they began …
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We’re in the process of reviewing the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) for Firefox Hello (relatedly I joined the Firefox Hello team as engineering manager in October). Mozilla is …
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And now for something entirely technical!
We’ve had a contributor from Outernet exploring ways of using PageShot for capturing pages for distribution on their network. Outernet satellite-based content …
At some point in a podcast series by Seth Godin he advises that you never give your house for collateral on a loan for your business. Of course you don’t want to lose your house, but that wasn’t his reason. If you put your house on the line …
Conway’s Law states:
organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations
I’ve always read this as an accusation: we are doomed to recreate the structure of our organizations in the structure of software projects. And further: projects …
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I’ve been reading the Early History Of Smalltalk, notes by Alan Kay, and this small note jumped out at me:
Another late-binding scheme that is already necessary is …