Andrew Overholt
@overholt
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Director of Engineering, Mozilla
Toronto
Joined March 2009
I'm happy we could continue the tradition!
“There’s a long tradition of sending cakes for major browser releases. This time, it’s a release into the great beyond.” - @jbodner09 Thanks @firefox!
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Thousands of hours of work has finally come to fruition as Firefox ships win32k lockdown in FF 100 -
hacks.mozilla.org
Firefox uses a multi-process model for additional security and stability while browsing. Web Content is rendered in separate processes.
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I've worked at Mozilla for almost fourteen years. This is why I'm still here:
blog.mozilla.org
Over the last two decades, the web has woven itself into the fabric of our lives. What began as a research project has become the world’s most important
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Of course I have a typo 🙄. Fission is for everywhere, just shipped on Desktop so far 👍
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The tradition of web browser vendors sending each other cakes continues with our friends at @googlechrome congratulating @Firefox for shipping (on desktop) Fission, our site isolation project on desktop! h/t @miketaylr
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After nearly 25 years.... we have a logo. And a new website! https://t.co/L7lCgQO5Mv
spidermonkey.dev
SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++ and Rust.
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A new Mozilla newsletter for our JavaScript engine: Spidermonkey Newsletter #1
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He’s a Staff Engineer at Mozilla, co-chair of W3C’s WICG and the Web Applications WG, and passionate about keeping the web safe, free, and open for all — our Person of the Week is... Marcos Cáceres. Thank you for helping the web advance, dear @marcosc! #smashingcommunity
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I wrote about encoding_rs background, API design, internals, and performance: https://t.co/YbMGhk3qpn (encoding_rs is the character encoding library used in Firefox since version 56.)
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Mozilla is once again looking for a C++ developer to join us and improve Firefox's JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey. The last time I mentioned a job on this team, @tschneidereit said "You should apply for this job as it is amazing"! https://t.co/OhoK7PXD7M
#firefox #mozilla
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The @googlechrome and @polymer teams very kindly sent the @Firefox team a bottle of "Shadow Dom Perignon" for shipping Shadow DOM and Custom Elements in Firefox 63. Thanks!
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Mozilla is looking for an experienced C++ developer to join our DOM team. This team is involved with defining web standards and making Firefox even better. Please apply if you're interested
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Nature’s heartbeat: Gross primary productivity of the biosphere shown as a cartogram animation, created in collaboration with @oxfordgeography’s @ymalhi for #ATBC2018
https://t.co/6E0MTIN31A
#maps #cartograms #cartography #ecology #environment #nature #geogif #worldmapper
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The WebAssembly team @mozilla was awesome to work with and really helped to make our benchmark more predictable - especially the interaction between baseline and optimized compilers and background threads. Thanks! 🙏
Thanks to the @PSPDFKit team for being very responsive and doing a great job at integrating our feedback to improve the real-world applicability of this benchmark!
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RTs appreciated! 😘 My @mozilla team's still hiring #Android engineers (senior and junior)! We have an exciting year for #AndroidDev coming up and we're looking for people to help us make that happen. Flexible Location, Remote option. DMs open for Q!
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