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This Week in Data: There’s No Such Thing as a Normal Month

( This Week in Data is a series of blog posts that the Data Team at Mozilla is using to communicate about our work. Posts in this series could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it s about data.) At the risk of reminding you of a Nickleback song, look at this [ ]

Ten-Year Moziversary

I m a few days late publishing this, but this October marks the tenth anniversary of my first day working at Mozilla. I m on my third hardware refresh (a Dell XPS which I can t recommend), still just my third CEO, and now 68 reorgs in. For something as momentous as breaking into two-digit territory, there s not [ ]

Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough

My Papa, my mother s father, C. J. Mortimer died in Saint John, New Brunswick in 2020. Flying through the Toronto and Montreal airports in September to his funeral was one of the surreal experiences of my life, with misting tunnels of aerosolized alcohol to kill any microbe on your skin, hair, clothes, and luggage; airport [ ]

Operating a Prius Prime SE 2024: the first three months

Choosing the right car for us Our first vehicle was, until late last year, our only vehicle: a 2009 Honda Fit we acquired at the end of 2008. Once it hit fifteen years old, we started looking for what would replace it. (Unfortunately we live in a part of Canada that isn t downtown Toronto, Vancouver, [ ]

Nine-Year Moziversary

On this day (or near it) in 2015, I joined the Mozilla project by starting work as a full-time employee of Mozilla Corporation. I m two hardware refreshes in (I was bad for doing them on time, leaving my 2017 refresh until 2018 and my 2020 refresh until 2022! (though, admittedly, the 2020 refresh was actually [ ]

So I’ve Finished: Lies of P (PS5)

I recently finished playing Lies of P after a single playthrough of the main story, collecting what extra collectables and delving what optional areas I found along the way. I came away from it wondering what fans like about soulslike games, disappointed in the writing and voice acting and score (though the optional collectable songs [ ]

How to go from “Looks like something changed in a Firefox Desktop version” to “Here is a list of potential culprit bugs”

This will mostly be helpful to Firefox Desktop folks, so if you re not one of those, please instead enjoy a different blogpost. I recommend this one about the three roles of data engagements. So you ve found yourself a plot that looks like this: You suspect this has something to do with a code change because, [ ]

So I’ve Finished: Final Fantasy XVI

I ve finished playing Final Fantasy XVI after completing the storyline and all side quests and hunts. It was a visually-stunning but stiltingly-animated JRPG romp with a more adult tone but childish treatment of themes and characters that ultimately satisfied mostly on the back of its real-time action battle system. Spoilers follow. This is my Active [ ]

So I’ve Finished: Persona 5

I recently completed the story of Persona 5 (not the Royal re-release), getting a little over half the achievements. It s not my first experience with a JRPG with Lifestyle Simulator elements (I did play Fire Emblem: Three Houses (no So I ve Finished article for that one, sorry)), but it s only my second. I found it [ ]

So I’ve Finished: Kena: Bridge of Spirits (PS5)

Last year I finished a playthrough of the story and some of the side content of Kena: Bridge of Spirits, a 3D action-adventure game. I enjoyed exploring the world, the fighting and progression systems, the score, and most of all the art style. Spoilers follow. First and foremost: how in the world do you pronounce [ ]