Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Yesterday I wrote about Tor on Firefox OS. Further testing showed an issue when switching networks - a common thing to happen when carrying a mobile device. The iptables rule I was using didn't exclude the tor process itself from having traffic redirected. When a network switch occurred tor would attempt to reestablish connections and this would fail. A fix... more →
Update - Please read my followup post for some additional information and updated steps on building and installing tor on Firefox OS. Please read the disclaimer at the end of this article. This is a proof of concept. It's a manual process and you shouldn't depend on it. Make sure you understand what you are doing. I'm a fan of... more →
I've gone through periods of using a Firefox OS phone as my main device but I've usually fallen back to Android due to needing to use some Android only programs and I don't like carrying two phones around. Today I decided to investigate how to get dual boot Android with custom Firefox OS builds. Thankfully it was actually pretty easy.... more →
PicoLisp is a small Lisp interpreter that tries to stay true to the path of 'code is data' as much as possible. It has some nice features, including a persistent database and built in prolog engine. The system is quite reflective and this is shown in the way you can use vim to browse the live system. There is a... more →
Now that I've got NixOS installed I needed a way to build and make changes to Firefox and Firefox OS. This post goes through the approach I've taken to work on the Firefox codebase. In a later post I'll build on this to do Firefox OS development. Building Firefox isn't difficult as NixOS has definitions for standard Firefox builds to... more →