Saturday, 3 November 2018

On learning Go and a comparison with Rust

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I spoke at the AKL Rust Meetup last month ( slides ) about my side project doing data mining in Rust. There were a number of engineers fr...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

Firefox Media Playback Team Review Policy

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Reviews form a central part of how we at Mozilla ensure engineering diligence. Prompt, yet thorough, reviews are also a critical component...
Friday, 12 January 2018

Not every bit of code you write needs to be optimal

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It's easy to fall into the trap of obsessing about performance and try to micro-optimize every little detail in the code you're wri...
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Sunday, 23 July 2017

How to install Ubuntu 17.04 on Dell XPS 15 9550

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I had some trouble installing Ubuntu 17.04 to dual-boot with Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 15 9550, so documenting here in case it helps others...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Firefox video playback's skip-to-next-keyframe behavior

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One of the quirks of Firefox's video playback stack is our skip-to-next-keyframe behavior. The purpose of this blog post is to document...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

How to prefetch video/audio files for uninterrupted playback in HTML5 video/audio

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Sometimes when you're playing a media file using an HTML5 <video> or <audio> element, or with WebAudio, you really want to ...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Why does the HTML fullscreen API ask for approval after entering fullscreen, rather than before?

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The HTML fullscreen API is a little different from other JS APIs that require permission, in that it doesn't ask permission before ente...
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