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I think I found my new favourite thing about Claude Code: using it to upgrade Hugo.

I acquired a copy of Learn to Program with Minecraft from No Starch Press a while ago but only recently decided to crack it open.

Last year I wrote a post for the Shopify engineering blog on the subject of Modelling Developer Infrastructure Teams.

The last Raspberry Pi that I bought (the one that powers my ledweb setup) came with a remote control intended for media servers, one of the official OSMC remotes.

Something I regularly tell my daughter, who can tend towards perfectionism, is that we all fail.

I’ve discussed and linked to articles about the advantages of splitting patches into small pieces to the point that I don’t feel the need to reiterate it here.

This is the last post in a three-part series on A Vision for Engineering Workflow at Mozilla.

In my last post I touched on the history and mission of the Engineering Workflow team, and I went into some of the challenges the team faces, which informed the creation of the team’s vision.

The OED’s second definition of “vision” is “the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.”

Having taken advantage of a Black Friday sale at BuyaPi.ca and picked up a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, I then needed something to do with it.

As the manager responsible for driving the decision and process behind the move to Phabricator at Mozilla, I’ve been asked to write about my recent experiences, including how this decision was implemented, what worked well, and what I might have done diff…

Stuff that landed in 2016 Here’s a sampling of improvements to BMO that were launched in 2016.

For historical reasons (or “hysterical raisins” as gps says) that elude me, the BMO database has been in (ughhh) Pacific Time since it was first created.

It’s been a whole year since my last BMO update, partly because I’ve been busy with MozReview (and blogging a lot about it), and partly because the BMO team got distracted from our goals by a few sudden priority changes, which I’ll get to later in this po…

The other day I read about another new Mozilla project that decided to go with GitHub issues instead of our Bugzilla installation (BMO).

After languishing for a few years, Pulse got a burst of interest and development in 2014.

Everyone loves statistics!

The second half of 2014 was spent finishing up some performance work and shifting into usability improvements, which will continue into 2015.

BMO currently supports five—count ’em, five—ways to search for bugs.

Here’s your mid-year report from the offices, basements, and caverns of BMO!

A large number of external applications have grown up around Bugzilla serving a variety of purposes.

Or, how to migrate to git using only three programming languages Another aspect of Bugzilla has been dragged, kicking & screaming, into the future!

This isn’t a traditional recipe or anything, just something I put together one day.

2013 was a pretty big year for BMO!

I went about the seemingly simple task of sharing a directory in OS X with an Ubuntu VMware box so that I could code in my main desktop and run under Linux.

A lot of people probably don’t know that I manage the team behind BMO, that is, bugzilla.mozilla.org, Mozilla’s Bugzilla installation.

Autophone is an automated system that executes Python test scripts on real user hardware, that is, actual phones.

If you’ve the means to buy an Oban 14 or a Macallan 18 whenever a decanter frees itself, you’ll probably want to saunter on past this post.

I bet that the moment most people decide they actually do like git is when they start using ‘rebase’ regularly.

Keeping wiki pages up to date is a hard problem, but recently we found out that people were having trouble finding out what projects we were working on.

An amusingly frequent pattern: git clone https://github.com/mozilla/new-python-project # ... right, virtualenv mkdir src mv new-python-project src virtualenv new-python-project cd new-python-project mv ..

Thanks to dkl, bmo now has an extension which shows a failure data for intermittent-orange bugs.