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Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️
@mconley.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
#Canadian, #Mozillian, Software mechanic. I help to make #firefox fast + smooth.

I mentor folks hacking on #reviewboard.

Also: sound designer/musician, and haunted […]

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That crash bug I've been investigating?

Cache invalidation. Again.
January 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Did you buy anything from Canada Computers recently using their website? Your credit card may have been skimmed! Best to get a new card issues. Watch your statements!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bapccanada/comments/1qk4axy/canada_computers_online_card_skimmer/

#canada #canadacomputers #toronto
January 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Did you buy anything from Canada Computers recently using their website? Your credit card may have been skimmed! Best to get a new card issues. Watch your statements!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bapccanada/comments/1qk4axy/canada_computers_online_card_skimmer/

#canada #canadacomputers
January 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 426! Come join me while I #Livehack on #firefox !

I'm going to give updates and tour you through some of the code I've written for the "activation window" thing we've been hacking on for the last few episodes. And I might review some patches! It'll […]
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January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The NATO Slack must be awkward as hell these days.
January 20, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Gang, I just spent a few hours using a mixture of Fedora and Ubuntu to reproduce and debug a Firefox bug. The huge strides that Desktop Linux has made in usability and stability since I was using it as my primary OS in uni is really impressive!

But holy cow it still has a lot of rough edges and […]
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January 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I just installed Fedora KDE Plasma in a VM to investigate a Firefox bug. I haven't used Fedora in... more than a decade, I think? Wow, things have changed.
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Computer, freeze program.
January 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 425! Come join me while I #Livehack on #firefox !

We're going to continue with the mechanism we started planning last week, to hide / change various New Tab settings during the first 48 hours of a profile's lifetime. Let's see if we can get some […]
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January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
ICE agents getting absolutely swarmed and harassed on the street in Minneapolis until they flee!

"Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon." from jan 12th
from https://bsky.app/profile/wedge.live/post/3mcb6afwogs2b

#ice #minneapolis
January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I'm very pleased to mention that today's release of #firefox 147 for desktop includes an opt-in feature that automatically opens Picture-in-Picture for videos when the tab playing that video gets backgrounded!

You can enable this in Firefox 147 by visiting […]

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January 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I wish I'd learned way sooner how easy it is to make soup from scratch. Like, from what I can tell, the error tolerances on a big pot of soup are humongous.

It's like long-form improv in a bowl.
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I can't help but be reminded of JavaScript and web engine speed competitions:

https://youtu.be/PnN4E9TlBsQ?si=szHrGmD0pEtC8G0U

#firefox
January 8, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Ooooh TVO just put out a documentary on 102.1 CFNY (I grew up calling it The Edge). Along with MuchMusic, this was basically how I discovered bands and music I liked when I was young.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/oFu0S8tETE8?si=FnlcwuE1hMisC0vK

Full documentary […]
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January 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 424! Come join me while I #Livehack on #firefox !

I'm getting back to hacking on newtab again - this time, I want to experiment with some logic for hiding top sites and stories by default during the first 48 hours of a new install's lifetime. I'm not […]
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January 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
It's that time of year again - when I crack open my work laptop at the start of the new year and check to see if I remember how to do my job.
January 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
A chronological list of revolts organized by peasants, and then colour-coded based on outcome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts
List of peasant revolts - Wikipedia
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January 4, 2026 at 3:34 AM
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115815452386070969

I think there are perhaps parallels here with how people perceive changes in software that they enjoy - especially as it becomes less niche / "power-user-y", and more accessible / understandable to others.
The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black

h/t @gruber
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I was reminded over the holiday about this music video made by some friends from highschool. It also features a very good doggo that we used to be roommates with.

https://youtu.be/VZQXruXGi1w?si=Dr3WNHerryLgsWa4
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you or someone you know happened to get a new computer recently to replace a Windows 10 machine, and you need to move your #firefox data over, a Mozilla Account and Sync does a fairly good job of securely moving your data from machine to machine.

OR, if you don't want an account, the new […]
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December 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you like Tom Cardy's music, you might also like this:

https://youtu.be/9-96YTHPlgU?si=ATeJNNx_WuXMNxCz
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We replaced our 15 year old air conditioner with a heat pump this past summer, and have been using it to heat our home this winter.

We still have a gas furnace as a backup, and it's only needed to kick in a few times so far. Our gas bill for November / December just came in, and we've cut our […]
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December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Days in the northern hemisphere are gonna start getting longer, y'all!
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Inside of you are two wolves.

Sometimes they're outside of you, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK20cYuFmbM
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM