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2023

December

• Rees-Dart Track 2023
• Caples/Routeburn Track 2023
• Abel Tasman Kayaking

November

• Mount Pirongia 2023
• Blog Migrated

April

• Why I Signed The "Pause" Letter
• Auckland Waterfront Half Marathon 2023

2022

December

• Travers-Sabine Circuit 2022
• Paparoa Track

September

• Aotea Track 2022
• Success, Privilege And God

July

• Tūrangi Road Trip

May

• Round The Mountain Track: Ups and Downs and a Twist Ending

April

• New Zealand's COVID Strategy Worked (But It Could Have Been Better)

March

• Motutapu Island Camping Trip

January

• Motatapu Track
• Hump Ridge Track
• The End Of The Runway

2021

December

• Mt Pirongia 2021
• Do We Really Need A Link Step?

November

• Some Observations On The NZ CovidPass System

October

• How WHO Failed

September

• Emulating AMD Approximate Arithmetic Instructions On Intel
• rr Trace Portability: Diverging Behavior of RSQRTSS in AMD vs Intel

June

• Spectre Mitigations Murder *Userspace* Performance In The Presence Of Frequent Syscalls
• Tama Lakes Winter Tramp 2021

May

• Forward Compatibility Of rr Recordings
• Lake Waikaremoana 2021

April

• Print Debugging Should Go Away
• Demoing The Pernosco Omniscient Debugger: Debugging Crashes In Node.js And GDB
• Visualizing Control Flow In Pernosco

March

• On-Premises Pernosco Now Available; Reflecting On Application Confinement
• What Would Jesus Do ... About Vaccination?

February

• Mercer Bay

January

• Dehydration
• Tongariro Northern Circuit 2021

2020

December

• Rees-Dart Track
• Kepler Track 2020
• Exploiting Precognition In Binary Instrumentation Of rr Replays

November

• rr remix: Efficient Replay-Only Binary Instrumentation
• DOM Recording For Web Application Demos
• Debugging With Screenshots In Pernosco
• rr Repository Moved To Independent Organisation
• Pernosco Now Available For Individual Developers
• Auckland Half Marathon 2020

October

• Pouakai Circuit 2020
• The Parable Of The Two Bus Drivers

September

• New Zealand's Long Term COVID19 Strategy

August

• Surprising Words In Luke 1:16-17
• What's So Amazing About Mark 10:32
• Scaling Debuginfo For Zero-Cost Abstractions
• What Is The Minimal Set Of Optimizations Needed For Zero-Cost Abstraction?

June

• Cape Brett 2020
• My Google Maps Disaster

May

• Why Forking HTML Into A Static Language Doesn't Make Sense
• Omniscient JS Debugging In Pernosco

April

• Have Some Humility, Mike Hosking

March

• What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
• Debugging Gdb Using rr: Ptrace Emulation

January

• Static Customization Of Function Signatures In Rust
• Updating Pernosco To Rust Futures 0.3

2019

December

• A Risk Of Transactional Politics For Christians
• Nelson Lakes Tramping: Lessons And Observations
• Nelson Lakes Tramping: Travers-Sabine Circuit
• Nelson Lakes Tramping: Angelus Basin

November

• Your Debugger Sucks
• Supercharging Gdb With Pernosco
• The Power Of Collaborative Debugging
• Omniscient Printf Debugging In Pernosco
• The BBC's "War Of The Worlds"
• Explaining Dataflow In Pernosco

October

• Improving Debugging Workflow With Pernosco
• Auckland Half Marathon 2019
• Pernosco Demo Video
• Food In Auckland 2019
• Pouakai Circuit
• Is Richard Dawkins A Moral Realist?

September

• Dissatisfied With Docker

July

• Cape Brett 2019
• Auckland Rust Meetup: "Building An Omniscient Debugger In Rust"

June

• Stack Write Traffic In Firefox Binaries
• Winter Tramp: Waihohonu Hut To Tama Lakes

May

• A Few Comments On "Sparse Record And Replay With Controlled Scheduling"
• Microsoft's Azure Time-Travel Debugging
• Don't Call Socially Conservative Politicial Parties "Christian"
• Debugging Talk At Auckland Rust Meetup

April

• Goodbye Mozilla IRC
• Update To rr Master To Debug Firefox Trunk
• Mysteriously Low Hanging Fruit: A Big Improvement To LLD For Rust Debug Builds
• Rust Discussion At IFP WG2.4

March

• Marama Davidson And The Truth About Auckland's History

February

• Banning Huawei Is The Right Decision
• Rust's Affine Types Catch An Interesting Bug
• Mt Taranaki 2019

January

• Experimental Data On Reproducing Intermittent MongoDB Test Failures With rr Chaos Mode

2018

December

• Vox On Nietzsche
• Hollyford Track
• Milford Track 2018

November

• Capitalism, Competition And Microsoft Antitrust Action
• Raglan
• Comparing The Quality Of Debug Information Produced By Clang And Gcc
• What Is "Evil" Anyway?
• Comments on "REPT: Reverse Debugging of Failures in Deployed Software"

October

• Auckland Half Marathon 2018
• Problems Scaling A Large Multi-Crate Rust Project
• Harmful Clickbait Headline About IT Automation
• The Fine Line Between Being A Good Parent And A Bad Parent
• The Costs Of Programming Language Fragmentation

September

• More Realistic Goals For C++ Lifetimes 1.0
• The Danger Of GMail's "Smart Replies"
• "Crazy Rich Asians"
• Rangitoto Fog

August

• Long Live The Desktop Computer
• ASAN And LSAN Work In rr
• Diagnosing A Weak Memory Ordering Bug
• The Parallel Stream Multiplexing Problem

July

• Gerv
• Why Isn't Debugging Treated As A First-Class Activity?

June

• Yosemite: Clouds Rest And Half Dome
• Bay Area Visit
• Crypto-Christians In Tech

May

• rr 5.2.0 Released
• Intel CPU Bug Affecting rr Watchpoints
• Update: Pernosco
• rr Chaos Mode Improvements
• Research Wishlist: A Filesystem For Efficient Host-Guest File Sharing
• Priority Is Overrated

April

• rr Trace Portability: x87 "Data Pointer" Broken On Skylake
• CPUID Features, XSAVE, And rr Trace Portability
• Heaphy Track #2
• Payment Express's "Account2Account" Is Bad For Security

March

• Speeding Up `dwarfdump` With Rust
• Too Many DWARF Packaging Options
• "Zach": AI Fraud In Christchurch
• Tongariro Northern Circuit #2

January

• Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" (Mild Spoilers)
• Long-Term Consequences Of Spectre And Its Mitigations
• Captain Sonar
• Hooray For cargo build --all-targets
• The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
• Ancient Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified
• On Keeping Secrets
• Meltdown/Spectre Needs Better Disclosure

2017

December

• Mixed Blessings Of Greenfield Software Development
• Marriage On Credit
• Routeburn-Caples
• rr 5.1.0 Released
• Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive

November

• In Praise Of Rust's structopt For Command Line Parsing
• Tararua Southern Crossing

October

• Auckland Half Marathon 2017
• Microsoft's Chrome Exploitation And The Limitations Of Control Flow Integrity
• "Slow To Become Angry"
• Type Safety And Data Flow Integrity
• Legacy Code Strikes Again
• Thoughts On Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger
• Building On Rock, Not Sand
• Microsoft Using Chromium On Android Is Bad For The Web

September

• Complaining About Twitter Again
• Dreaming The Singularity
• Facebook's "Explaining React's License" Doesn't
• Some Opinions On The History Of Web Audio
• Sonny The Prophet
• rr 5.0 Released
• rr Trace Portability

August

• Fedora/Ubuntu Kernels Work With rr Again
• Igloos Are Hard
• Epsom Electorate Town Hall Meeting
• Public Service Announcement: "localhost" Is Not Necessarily Local
• When Virtue Fails
• Stabilizing The rr Trace Format With Cap’n Proto

July

• Selecting A Compression Algorithm For rr
• Upstream Stable Kernels Work With rr Again
• Let's Never Create An Ad-Hoc Text Format Again
• Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer
• Usenix ATC 2017
• An Inflection Point In The Evolution Of Programming Langauges
• Bay Area Progress Report

June

• Patch On Linux Kernel Stable Branches Breaks rr
• Rising Tolerance For Static Analysis False Positives?
• Lazy Religion Tropes In Mass Media
• Is The x86 Architecture Sustainable?
• New "rr pack" Command
• How I Found A 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug
• Another Case Of Obscure CPU Nondeterminism
• WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

May

• Should Debuggers Report Idempotent Writes?
• A Couple Of Papers About Commodity Multicore Record And Replay, And A Possible Way Forward
• rr Usenix Paper And Technical Report
• Obscurity Inhibits Persuasion
• Perceptions Of Violent Crime

April

• Call Out China For Their Treatment Of NK Escapees
• One Does Simply Walk Into Mordor
• Rust Optimizations That C++ Can't Do (Version 2)
• Rust Optimizations That C++ Can't Do
• Pararaha Valley
• Let's Make NZ More Expensive For Tourists

March

• The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard Really Is About Grace
• Blogging Vs Academic Publishing
• Thoughts On "Java and Scala’s Type Systems are Unsound" And Fuzz Testing
• Deterministic Hardware Performance Counters And Information Leaks
• Using rr To Debug Go Programs

February

• Against Online Voting
• 306 Points In "Lords Of Waterdeep"
• "New Scientist" And The Meaning Of Life
• What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't, In Six Short Lines
• rr 4.5.0 Released
• I Really Admire Jehovah's Witnesses

January

• A Followup About AV Test Reports
• Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting
• Rustbelt Is Hiring
• rr Talk At Auckland C++ Meetup, February 21
• Really, Please Stop Booking International Conferences In The USA
• Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)
• Browser Vendors And Business Interests
• Browser Vendors Are Responsible For The State Of Web Standards
• Parenting Notes
• Cheltenham Beach
• How China Can Pressure North Korea
• Is CMS Software Generally Really Bad?

2016

December

• On "Arrival"
• October rr Talk Online
• Disemploy The Middle/Upper Class
• Some Comments On "Sapiens"

November

• Overcoming Stereotypes One Parent At A Time
• Stop Saying "Xs Do Y" Disingenuously
• Handling Hardware Lock Elision In rr
• Misinterpreting Close Contests
• Welcoming Richard Dawkins
• Dangerous Permissions

October

• Auckland Half Marathon #4
• Implications Of ASLR Side-Channel Attacks
• Valuing America
• Dell, Your Website Security Is Broken
• Pivoting To Cyber-Forestry
• Ironic World Standards Day
• Tawharanui Revisited
• rr Paper: "Lightweight User-Space Record And Replay"
• Bay Area Talks About rr And Beyond, October 2-7
• rr 4.4.0 Released

September

• Is Apple A Christian Environment?
• Theism And The Simulation Argument
• Auckland Food 2016

August

• Avoiding Cache Writebacks For Freed Memory
• Random Thoughts On Rust: crates.io And IDEs
• Saga Of The Exiles
• False Accusations
• Why I Don't Watch "Game Of Thrones"
• Changing Attitudes To Pornography

July

• The True Story Of "Amazing Grace"
• Further Improving My Personal Digital Security
• Ordered Maps For Stable Rust
• Itanium Zombie Claims Another Victim

June

• rr 4.3.0 Released
• Nexus 5X vs Wettest June Hour In Auckland's History
• Relearning Debugging With rr
• Handling Read-Only Shared Memory Usage In rr
• Dear Ubuntu, Please Fix Your Debuginfo Packaging
• Democracy Is Impressive
• PlayCanvas Is Impressive
• Managing Vast, Sparse Memory On Linux
• Nastiness Works
• "Safe C++ Subset" Is Vapourware
• Mt Pirongia
• Whanganui River Journey
• Some Dynamic Measurements Of Firefox On x86-64
• Are Dynamic Control-Flow Integrity Schemes Worth Deploying?
• How To Track Down Divergence Bugs In rr
• The Diving Bell And Twitter
• Research Needed: A Meta (Dis) Assembler

May

• Men Behaving Badly
• Stop Booking Conferences In The USA
• Data > Personal Anecdotes > Media Anecdotes
• x86-64 SSE/AVX Register Usage
• Autonomous Vehicles: I Want To Believe
• Data On x86-64 Register Usage
• Pain Management
• History Rhymes

April

• Android's Update System Is Ridiculous
• Leveraging Modern Filesystems In rr
• Skylake Erratum Affecting rr
• GNOME High-DPI Issues

March

• Using rr To Debug rr
• Obituary
• Running Firefox For Windows With rr
• SIGKILL And PTRACE_EXIT_EVENT
• Digital Spring Cleaning
• My Self-Identification
• Leaving Mozilla

February

• "These Bugs Are Impossible To Fix Without rr"
• Deeper Into Chaos
• Rewrite Everything In Rust
• Introducing rr Chaos Mode
• rr Talk At linux.conf.au
• rr 4.1.0 Released
• Reflecting On The The Lord Of The Rings Movies
• Rakiura Track
• Kepler Track

January

• Making Honest Money With The Internet Of Things
• Kereru
• innerText: Cleaning A Dark Corner Of the Web

2015

December

• Feelings Versus Facts At Christmas
• Abel Tasman Track
• CppCast rr Podcast

November

• Even More rr Replay Performance Improvements!
• rr Replay Performance Improvements
• Debugging Leaks With rr
• TPPA Protest
• Perfection In Imperfection
• rr In VMWare: Solved!
• An Extraordinary Sunday

October

• Research Projects That Should NOT Be Funded
• KPMG Gets It Totally Wrong About Pittsburgh And Auckland
• rr 4.0 Released With Reverse Execution
• Hobbiton
• Heaphy Track

September

• Apple's Next Frontier: Fusion
• Booting Fedora 22 On A Lenovo ThinkCentre M53

August

• Hooray For WebExtensions
• Parenting

July

• Two Reverse-Execution Optimizations
• Midwinter Road Trip
• rr Talk Video From TCE 2015

June

• Whistler Hike
• Bug In Newer Linux Kernels Affecting rr
• Israel, Part 3
• Israel, Part 2
• Israel, Part 1
• Small Change To rr Behavior

May

• rr Performance Update
• BlinkOn 4
• Using rr To Debug Dropped Video Frames In Gecko
• Piha Night Walk

April

• rr 3.1 Released
• Another VMWare Hypervisor Bug
• Reverse Execution And Signals

March

• Eclipse + Gecko = Win
• Paper Titles
• Auckland University rr Talk Next Week
• The Problems Of Significance Testing (aka What's Wrong With Computer Science)
• Debugging Gecko With Reverse Execution
• What Is The Endgame Of Weak Computer Security?

February

• Great Barrier Island
• Computer Industry T-Shirt Museum

January

• Routeburn-Greenstone

2014

December

• Is Human Immortality Possible?
• Queen Charlotte Track
• rr 3.0 Released With x86-64 Support
• Portland
• We Aren't Really Going To Have "Firefox On iOS"

November

• The Rise Of "Versing"
• Mount Te Aroha
• Relax, Scaling User Interfaces By Non-Integer Scale Factors Is Okay
• Sci-Fi
• HTML5 Video Correctness Across Browsers
• Auckland Half Marathon --- Barefoot

October

• Are We Fast Yet? Yes We Are!
• Pinnacles Tramp #2
• Photos From North America
• Back In New Zealand

September

• Upcoming rr Talk
• rr 2.0 Released
• VMWare CPUID Conditional Branch Performance Counter Bug

August

• Milestones On The Road To Christianity
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• Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

July

• Multiverses And Anthropic Reasoning
• Implementing Scroll Animations Using Web Animations

May

• Unnecessary Dichotomy
• Against The "Internet Of Things"
• Milford Track

April

• Getting Back To Work
• Fighting Media Narratives
• Mozilla Matters
• Responsible Self-Censorship

March

• Conflict
• Introducing rr
• Mozilla And The Silicon Valley Cartel
• Taroko National Park
• Maokong
• Introducing Chaos Mode
• My Linkedin Account Is Dead, And Why Is Google Being Stupid?
• Fine-Tuning Arguments
• Internet Connectivity As A Geopolitical Tool
• Te Henga Walkway
• Q&A Panel At ACPC This Friday

February

• 3 Mile Limit
• World Famous In Newmarket
• Implementing Virtual Widgets On The Web Platform
• Mozilla At Motuihe
• Camels

January

• Lake Waikaremoana
• Web Specifications And The Frame Problem
• Tiritiri Matangi Island
• Boating

2013

December

• We Need A "Dumb Device" Movement
• Blood Clot
• Why I Don't Worry About Global Warming (Much)
• One Day The Luddites Will Be Right
• WebRTC And People-Oriented Communications
• Another Knee-Jerk Reaction To International Rankings
• Does John Banks Only Do Good?
• Wanaka

November

• Mozillians At The Tongariro Crossing And Orakei Korako
• A Tale Of Two Cities

October

• Summit Day Zero
• Prescriptive Vs Descriptive Frameworks
• Avoiding Burnout
• Travel Madness

September

• The Forge Of Disappointment
• A Tip For The Surivial Of Humanity
• Unexpected Visitors
• Debugging Transient Rendering Issues With GNOME Shell Screencasts
• Servant Leadership

August

• Indoi
• Creating Screencasts On Linux
• SVG-In-OpenType Progress Update
• Mozilla Code Reviews Talk On Air Mozilla
• Prepare To Stop
• Mozilla Engineering Culture Talk Now Online

July

• A Shock Of The Ordinary
• Happy Days
• Avoiding Copies In Web APIs
• Movie Picoreviews
• Contributing Advocacy

June

• Gradual Changes Afoot
• Developer Parallelism
• Meeting Absenteeism

May

• Blink, PNaCl, And Standards
• Taiwan Travelogue
• Travel
• The Direct Route
• Web Audio Progress

April

• Rotorua
• Hunuas Tramp
• Upcoming Travel Plans
• Google Vs New Zealand
• The Chris Problem
• The Future Of Cheating
• Blink

March

• Mitigating Control-Flow Exploits With x86 ISA Extensions
• RIP Crazy Noodle
• Getting The Facts
• Why I Work
• Seeking Relevance
• There Is No Such Thing As Computer Security
• Technical Advantages Of A Web-Only Platform

February

• A Small Example Of The Value Of Browser Engine Diversity
• And Then There Were Three
• Waiheke Island Sculpture Trail
• SVG In OpenType: A New Approach To SVG Fonts

January

• Mount Taranaki
• Optimizing Bugzilla Usage

2012

December

• Great Barrier Island

November

• More Movie Reviews
• What To Do When Visiting New Zealand

October

• Trouble Ahead For SVG Stacks (Maybe)
• Motutapu Camping
• Karekare

September

• Web Audio In Firefox
• Blast From The Past

August

• Granularity Of Import Directives In Programming Languages
• A Confession Of Sorts
• Attention NZ TV Sports Interviewers

July

• In-Flight Movies
• North Head To Takapuna
• Tawharanui
• Muriwai

June

• Bolo
• Computer Science In Beijing
• Google Plus Spam
• Experiencing Beijing
• To Beijing
• Leaving Linkedin
• The City And The City
• Mangawhai

May

• The Canvas getContext() Mistake
• Firefox Vs The New York Times
• Crosbie's Hut
• Accelerated Scrolling In Firefox: Past, Present And Future
• Sad And Pathetic Machines

April

• Korea
• The Internet Experiment Has Failed

March

• Retrospective On Our Trip To Europe
• Wakaraanga Creek
• I'm Back
• Retro Movie Showcase
• Requiring Planet Mozilla Content To Be Mozilla-Project-Related

February

• Movie Overdose
• Upcoming Travel
• Foo Camp, ECOOP, And Conferences
• Alternatives To Supporting -webkit Prefixes In Other Engines
• The Problem With Counting Browser Features

January

• Mozilla Tree Adventures
• You Know You're In Australia When...
• MediaStreams Processing Demos
• "Cut The Rope" and HTML5 Audio
• Risk Tolerance

2011

December

• A Case For Non-Fatal Assertions
• Revelation
• Television
• Love
• Developernomics

November

• Moves In Computer Science Education
• Politics
• ITEX And TVNZ
• Latency Of HTML5 <audio> Sounds
• Freedom Never Gets Old
• Computerworld Interview
• HTML Video DRM
• The End Of Plugins
• Drawing DOM Content To Canvas
• Fun Things To Do In Auckland

October

• Public Service Reminder For GMail Users
• A Sermon For The Rugby World Cup Final
• A Few Words On The Rugby World Cup
• Web Directions South
• Jobs

September

• Shifts In Promoting The Open Web
• Graphics API Design
• Risks Of Exposing Web Page Pixel Data To Web Applications
• Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Expecting Different Results
• France Vs Japan
• So It Begins

August

• Cost Of Living
• Thoughts On Management
• New Mozilla Auckland Office Is Live!
• Securing Full-Screen
• Eden Park
• South Island Holiday
• Blog Update
• Books
• Rugby Fandom

June

• Permissions For Web Applications
• Auckland Web Meetup Recap
• Auckland Web Meetup
• CS Unplugged
• Media Processing
• Some Advice
• Running

May

• Singing
• The Pinnacles

April

• "My Wedding And Other Secrets"
• Gangly, Bespectacled And Cerebral
• Shy
• Movies

March

• White Island
• Investigating Performance Differences Between Firefox 4 And IE9
• The Myth Of "Full Hardware Acceleration"

February

• Cape Brett
• Tongariro
• Distinguishing "Embeddable" Versus "Readable" Web Resources Considered Harmful

January

• 3433aed5e4a1ca4ca1fc8db580d60c2b
• Tongariro
• Pleasure
• Coincidence
• Playing The Game
• A Big Day For Free Video
• Theodicy And The Prime Directive
• I'm Back
• Interannual Status

2010

December

• Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
• GPU-Accelerated Video Playback In Firefox 4

November

• Measuring FPS
• Most Unusual Rugby Commentary
• Herald Interview
• Brain Drain Vs Foreign Invasion
• Clinton Bedogni Prize
• Eclipse Breakthrough
• Implementing A High-Performance Emulator In Javascript Using Run-Time Code Generation

October

• Stepping Stones
• Bye Bye HWNDs
• Distrusting Research
• Mitigating Dangling Pointer Bugs Using Frame Poisoning
• South Island Trip
• Raising Awareness

September

• Travel
• The Ten Commandments
• "Full Hardware Acceleration"
• New Google Maps Imagery Of Auckland

August

• A Night Out
• TechEd
• More Dell Fail (Or Maybe NVidia)
• Sunshine Rises Again
• -moz-element Landed
• Vinge
• CSS Units Changes Landed
• The mozRequestAnimationFrame Frame Rate Limit
• Auckland Food
• Firefox Sync
• mozRequestAnimationFrame
• Google vs Oracle
• Dell Fail
• Choosing Sides

July

• Unexpected Downtime
• Coding Style As A Failure Of Language Design
• Perks
• Summit
• Retained Layers
• Mozilla And Software Patents In New Zealand

June

• Thank God For Science
• LFX Video Available!
• Sleepless In Toronto
• WebM Landed
• Not Implementing Features Is Hard

May

• Visiting Toronto
• Dear Conservatives
• Nero Vs MPEG-LA
• Ip Man Fail
• WebM
• Discontent On The Web
• Standardizing XUL Flexible Boxes In CSS
• CGLayer Performance Trap With isFlipped

April

• Kingitanga Day
• Changing The World
• Accelerating Theora On The N900
• API Design For The Masses
• Fermi, Darwin, and Christians
• More Apple Evil
• Upcoming Events
• Big Week
• Anawhata
• Layers

March

• Fun With BCC
• Amor Robustum
• Rainbows End
• Nightmare On Infinite Loop

February

• High-Performance Browser Developers
• Post Foo Camp
• Reality Wins

January

• Ruapehu Redux
• Three Lessons From A Pernicious Bug
• H.264 Licensing And Free Software
• ActiveX All Over Again
• LCA
• Video, Freedom And Mozilla
• The Road To LCA: Ruapehu
• Volcanoes And Penguins
• More On Patch Division
• CSS Absolute Length Units
• Unifying Abstractions, Dividing Patches
• There Can Be Only One
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2009

December

• Idiots Indeed
• Important Questions

November

• Sword +5 Against Orange
• CSS Gradient Syntax
• Challenges In Software Research

October

• Removing The Media Element 'load' Event
• Melbourne

September

• Melbourne
• No Worries
• Somewhere On The Internet...
• mozLoadFrom And The Media Cache
• Auckland Web Meetup 2009
• Cheap Broadband Doesn't Matter

August

• Post-Holiday
• On The Road
• Homework Answers
• Winter's Day On The West Coast
• Homework

July

• Idiots
• Justifying Evil
• Approved For The Intelligence Community
• On Not Being Evil
• Faces Of The Web Video Revolution
• Progress

June

• Native Widgets Begone
• Whitespace Begone
• DirectShow And Platform Media Frameworks
• The Price Of Freedom
• Stupid X Tricks

May

• Status
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• Mozilla Corporation All-Hands And Other Adventures

April

• Travel
• The Ultimate Emulator
• Reflecting on NZCSRSC 2009
• The Man In The Middle
• Media Cache

March

• Seductive Infrastructure

February

• Checking The Rear-View Mirror
• Filters, Libraries And The Web
• Columns Conversations
• SVG Filter Effects For Plain Old HTML
• Hazardous Biology
• On Conversations
• Kiwifoo 2009
• Telling It Like It Is
• Mozilla Afloat
• Mozilla At Karekare

January

• Tips For Getting Patches Landed
• Post-3.1 Plans
• Mountain Fun
• Scheduled Downtime
• Invalidation Reftests
• Right And Wrong

2008

December

• Wikipedia
• Ship's Blog
• Offline
• Blast From The Past
• 0d9430209720a141205bf8986cdc9598
• New Game, Old Rules
• Reftests
• Places I've Been
• Mozilla NZ
• West Coast
• Waiheke

November

• Miscellany
• The Essence Of Web Applications
• Grumble Grumble

October

• American Tidbits
• The Tragedy Of Naive Software Development
• October Travel
• Invalidation
• SVG Bling Update
• Hating Pixels
• Coromandel
• Interesting Developments In Program Recording

September

• Chronicle Update
• Dear Nat Torkington
• New Zealand Open Source Awards
• Whatipu
• Whiny Expats
• CSS Transforms
• Auckland Web Meetup Summary
• Some Boring CSS/Acid3 Stuff
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• Auckland Web Meetup
• Chrome

August

• Kitekite Falls
• Disruption In Progress
• Analyzing Deer
• The Coming Battle Over Web Fonts
• Eureka
• My Summit
• Why Ogg Matters

July

• Mixed News
• SVG Filter Performance Improvements In Gecko 1.9.1
• Wellington
• ROC Scheduled Maintenance - Wednesday 16/7/2008 to Sunday 20/7/2008
• Using Arbitrary Elements As Paint Servers
• SVG Paint Servers For HTML
• Fun

June

• Some 1.9.1 Updates
• Hits And Misses
• Eager Backouts
• Advanced Topics In Computer Science #2: Rectangles
• Working Overtime
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• Applying SVG Effects To HTML Content

May

• Ergonomics
• Well, I'm Back Again
• Status
• Perspective
• Don't Stop On The Freeway
• More Travel
• Fermi's Paradox

April

• Visiting Hamilton
• Te Henga
• The Ozymandias Ultimatum
• The Good Fight
• Specification Superheroes
• The Shadow Of The Moon
• Additional Austral Peregrinations
• Kindling Enthusiasm

March

• Travel Plans
• NOT A Cross-Browser Implementation Of XBL2
• Initial IE8 Thoughts

February

• Platform Tilt
• Rounding Towards (Or Away From) Zero Considered Harmful
• The Best Of Intentions
• Recap Part 2: Foo/Baa Camp
• Recap Part 1: California

January

• Different Approaches To Compability Modes
• Travel
• Slipping The Ball And Chain
• &lt;META HTTP-EQUIV="X-BALL-CHAIN"&gt;
• Subpixel Layout And Rendering
• GTK Printing
• Auckland Mozillans At Play
• Auckland Mozillans
• String Theory
• The Dark Side Of The Moon
• Christmas Excursions

2007

December

• Our Rectangles Overfloweth
• Drive-By Debugging
• Official Notice
• 2007-2008
• Barcamp Auckland
• Video Wars
• Video Star
• Interpreting Failure
• Small Mammals
• Script Safety Annotations
• e0f4ffc0ddc898cd033567bc2d1fe084

November

• A New Antipodean Free Software Outpost
• Gripping Reality
• Pegs, Holes And Reflow
• 8 Kent St
• Intranet Explorer
• Finding The Core
• Status

October

• Linux Matters, Addendum
• Linux Matters
• Growing Pains
• Abstraction Penalties, Stack Allocation And Ownership Types
• Backing Store #2: Dependency Tracking
• A Tale Of Two Zooms
• Exploring Auckland
• Welcome To My Backing Store
• One More Reason Why We Need Audio (And Video) In The Browser
• Fish, Water
• Tabula Fracta
• Changing Horses
• Tragic Vindication
• If I Did It
• Triage

September

• Parallel DOM Access
• Textalicious
• My World Cup Predictions
• Why Erlang Is Not The (Whole) Answer
• Parallel Browsing
• Trust No One
• Federal Government
• +1
• Chickenfoot/Koala/CoScripter
• Gloom-o-rama
• Bruce Willis And Quantum Computing

August

• Mercurial
• OOXML Wars
• Announcing Chronomancer
• Post Vivem
• High And Low
• Flood Control Dam Number Three

July

• Major Chronicle Bug Fixed
• Ozzie Oddity
• Upcoming Events
• Brrrrrr
• Chronicle Contribution
• Status
• Camera Features I Want
• Fashionable Controversies
• Holiday Photos
• Rotovegas
• Media Superstar
• Things I Hate
• Holidays
• Text Status
• Mea Maxima Culpa

June

• Durban, Paris, Valencia, Mangere
• Webstock Press
• Wellington
• 15 Minutes With A Tucked-In T-Shirt
• Bad Steve
• This Week's Madness
• Shrike
• Waikowhai
• Status Update

May

• We Don't Need No Office Education
• Things I've Seen With My Eyes
• Record-And-Replay In Virtual Machines
• The Glyph Bounds Problem
• Performance Observation
• Chronicle Update
• Speeding Up Mkdepend
• Authentication
• Status
• Collision
• Desperate Measures

April

• Travel
• Bethell's Beach
• History Based Stack Reconstruction
• Chronicle Released
• MoCo All-Hands
• Google Maps Fails Me
• Travel Plans

March

• Questions That Must Be Answered
• Text Text Text
• Festival Mania

February

• Miscellany
• Computerworld Article
• Faith
• Offline Web Applications
• Superlaser Targeting Cupertino
• ATSUI Woes
• Now Witness...
• Evil
• Units Patch Landed
• Mozilla In Auckland
• Post Baa Camp
• Baa Camp

January

• Anniversary Weekend
• ec06b3461cf0eaf3d3e4d7a2e429bddb
• Sharing Sources Across Virtual Machines
• Babes In Toyland
• Fortress
• Status

2006

December

• More About Amber
• A New Approach To Debugging
• Pohutukawa
• Parallelism
• Changes Afoot
• The Ultimate Square Peg
• Patent Sea Change
• Congratulations David!
• XUL Dark Matter
• Linux
• NetworkManager, dbus and Offline Status

November

• Firefox Summit
• Prophecy Fulfilled
• Mail Forwarding
• Making Web Applications First Class Desktop Citizens

October

• Miscellany
• Partial Ligatures
• Thinking About Performance
• Motutapu Island
• Mysterious Cargo
• More Text
• Insufficiently Paranoid
• Text Progress
• My Father's Days Of Piracy

September

• Here Comes A New Challenger!
• Status
• Static Analysis And Scary Headlines
• Dream Time II
• Crazy Noodle

August

• More Status
• Out Of Action
• What's Wrong With The SVG Working Group
• Sweet Sorrow

July

• RGBA Windows
• Worlds In Collision
• The Good, The Bad, And The Three-D
• Necrolicious
• On The Road
• Eighty Minutes Of Terror

June

• CORBA Post Mortem
• The Future Is Now
• The Wild West
• Duder Regional Park
• The Future Of Western Civilization

May

• Bad Choices
• DVD Madness
• Assorted Thoughts

April

• Dream Time
• GNOME Themes In HTML
• Asiana IV
• Read My Lips
• Having A Miserable April Fool's Day

March

• And So It Begins ...

February

• Linker Performance Revisited
• Choosing Sides
• Cairo, Linux And GTK2 Themes
• Irrational Glumness
• The Greatest Movies Of All Time
• Anatomy Of Bloat
• The Joy Of Text
• Tongariro

January

• Stormy Conditions, Outlook Fair
• One Year On
• Morning Light

2005

December

• Port Waikato
• Frame Display Lists And Next Steps
• Night Of The Living Threads
• The BBC Gets It Wrong
• Web Standards, Mozilla Extensions And Other Ranting
• Means And Ends

November

• Ambushed
• Gloomocracy IV
• Frame Display Lists
• "Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil" Is The Root Of Some Evil

October

• Travels

September

• Upcoming Travel
• Blast From The Past

August

• SVG Interoperation
• Speaking The Truth In Love (I Hope)
• IE7 To Fix A Number Of Standards-Compliance Issues

July

• Gecko 1.9
• Whatipu
• EU Patent Law Defeated

June

• Eclipse CDT
• 'Talisman' and Programming Language Semantics
• I Have A Dream
• Avalon Lockdown
• display:inline and tables
• Around The World In 22 Days
• Graphics Thoughts
• An Unexpected Journey

May

• Xgl
• XTech
• Landed Canvas drawWindow API
• Socialized Medicine
• Travel
• Rendering Web Page To Images
• Light-Weight Instrumentation from Relational Queries Over Program Traces
• The Language Of Doom
• Cairo Progress

April

• Globalization
• Cairo Status
• Star Wars
• Glimpse Of The Future
• Acid2
• Rangitoto
• April Curmudgeon

March

• Rediscovering Auckland
• Gecko 1.8 For Web Developers: Collapsing Margins And The 'Clear' Property
• Gecko 1.8 For Web Developers: Columns
• The Great U-Turn
• Gloomocracy III
• Gloomocracy II: Gloomocrats United
• Slough of Despond
• Heroes
• Visual Regression Tests

February

• Lizard Engineer
• Cultural Synthesis
• Lantern Festival
• Just Swell
• Urupukapuka Island
• Sunshine
• Optimizing GNU ld
• The Usable Society
• The Joy Of Benchmarking
• Asiana III
• Nazis, Computers and Me
• Lizard Time
• Asiana II
• Herald Interview
• Living the Dream

January

• Perambulations
• Sharing binaries across multiple Mozilla trees with ccache
• Asiana
• Forestry
• Branded
• Well, I'm Back
• The Gloomocracy
• Counting Down

2004

December

• Fog of War
• Why Mozilla
• Why New Zealand
• Well, I'm Almost Back