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37 days and one year later: part 3: mileage, elevation, and scenery 27 Aug 2013 | 05:17 am
This is part three of a series of posts discussing various aspects of a bike trip I did across the United States in 2012. Part one discussed the start of the trip and choosing a route. Part two discus...
37 days and one year later: part 2: routine, and shelter 26 Aug 2013 | 05:17 am
This is part two of a series of posts discussing various aspects of a bike trip I did across the United States in 2012. Part 1 discussed the start of the trip and choosing a route. This post discusses...
37 days and one year later: part 1: the start and choosing a route 25 Aug 2013 | 05:17 am
One year ago, after 37 days of biking around ~3875mi total starting in San Francisco, I reached Yorktown, VA to finish biking across the country. An exact day-to-day accounting would likely bog down i...
Micro-feature from ES6, now in Firefox Aurora and Nightly: binary and octal numbers 13 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
A couple years ago when SpiderMonkey’s implementation of strict mode was completed, I observed that strict mode forbids octal number syntax. There was some evidence that novice programmers used leadin...
New in Firefox 23: the length property of an array can be made non-writable (but you shouldn’t do it) 6 Aug 2013 | 04:05 am
Properties and their attributes Properties of JavaScript objects include attributes for enumerability (whether the property shows up in a for-in loop on the object) and configurability (whether the p...
Introducing mozilla::Abs to mfbt 30 Apr 2013 | 08:17 pm
Computing absolute values in C/C++ C includes various functions for computing the absolute value of a signed number. C++98 implementations add the C functions to namespace std, and it adds abs() overl...
mozilla/PodOperations.h: functions for zeroing, assigning to, copying, and comparing plain old data objects 27 Apr 2013 | 01:20 am
Recently I introduced the new header mozilla/PodOperations.h to mfbt, moving its contents out of SpiderMonkey so for general use. This header makes various operations on memory for objects easier and ...
Checking in from Milford, UT 27 Jul 2012 | 12:47 am
I’m in Milford, UT right now after a night in a hotel. It’s been eight days of biking so far at a fairly stiff pace, out of necessity due to the 37-day cap. Nevada (particularly) and Utah are so sprea...
37 awesome days 18 Jul 2012 | 01:26 am
I tend to take very long vacations. Coding gives me the flexibility to work from anywhere, so when I travel, I keep working by default and take days off when something special arises. Thus I usually t...
Introducing mozilla/FloatingPoint.h: methods for floating point types and values 20 Apr 2012 | 02:00 pm
The latest addition to the Mozilla Framework Based on Templates (mfbt) is mozilla/FloatingPoint.h. This header implements various floating point functionality. Functionality overview mozilla/Floatin...
