Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Things I like vs things that make me work better.

One thing about working remotely is you get more opportunity to customise your work environment. This has taught me that things that I like...

Friday, June 28, 2013

Integrating Mercurial queues and Dropbox

We use Mercurial to manage the Mozilla source tree . Locally I use the Mercurial Queues (mq) extension to manage my patch queue. Mq keeps a...

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Trychooser hg plugin

If anyone is building their own hg from the current source and uses the trychooser extension ( https://github.com/pbiggar/trychooser ), you...

Saturday, April 13, 2013

The layers refactoring has landed!

I'm happy to report that the layers refactoring has landed on Mozilla central and is now in Nightly. We have already fixed a bunch of b...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Layers refactoring update

We missed our target landing date of 18th March. But, other than being a few weeks late, things are progressing nicely, in fact we are near...

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Firefox on Raspberry Pi

Some time ago I acquired a Raspberry Pi. These little computers are awesome, it is amazing that a full blown computer can be had in a tiny ...

Friday, March 22, 2013

Finding instructions generated from JS

This is a bit of a beginner's tip for hacking on the JS engine (because I have been hacking a tiny bit on the JS engine (specifically t...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Stupid British politicians and their stupid education policies

Urgh: On Thursday Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of England's schools, waded into the row, ordering the academics to get ...

Saturday, March 16, 2013

How I learnt to stop worrying and love open source

I've always been a fan of open source, basically because who doesn't like free stuff? But I've never really seen the greatness ...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

OMTC Questions

mayankleoboy1 asked some questions in the comments of another blog post and I figured the answers might be of interest to a wider audience,...

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