Python-SpiderMonkey Resurrected
Yesterday I found John J. Lee’s old Python-SpiderMonkey code from 2003, which creates a bridge between the Python language and Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine—the same engine that powers...
View ArticleRunning C and Python Code on The Web
Last week, Scott Petersen from Adobe gave a talk at Mozilla on a toolchain he’s been creating—soon to be open-sourced—that allows C code to be targeted to the Tamarin virtual machine. Aside from being...
View ArticleTrusting Functionality
One of the major challenges we face with the design of our new linguistic command-line project is that of trust. As Zittrain mentions in The Future of the Internet, this is really the fundamental...
View ArticleMercurial Woes
Over the past few days my friends Ben Collins-Sussman and Jim Blandy and I have been having an interesting conversation about the use of Mercurial for development collaboration. Eventually one of my...
View ArticleTowards Inter-Community Trust
In my recent post on Trusting Functionality I alluded to a socially-based framework for trust that would allow software to be generative and safe at the same time. When trying to figure out a solution...
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Ubiquity’s Python Feed Plugin
A few weeks ago I wrote about Ubiquity Feed Plugins, which are basically just a way of separating the user interface of subscribing to a new feature from the implementation of the feature itself. As...
View ArticlePyXPCOM vs. jsbridge
Yesterday Tempura left a good question as a comment on my blog post concerning Ubiquity’s experimental support for Python: What about http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org ? They bring Python in an xpi for all...
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Automatic Bug Reporting for Firefox Extensions
We want to make Ubiquity awesome at reporting errors. In our original release, a transparent message with JavaScript exception information was displayed, which wasn’t very useful to the average user,...
View ArticleComing At You Like A Pydermonkey
Since learning JavaScript over a year ago, it’s become one of my favorite dynamic programming languages alongside Python. And as I’ve mentioned before, I think the two languages actually complement...
View ArticleTwitblob
Over the past few years, I’ve made a number of little Web applications that are actually just HTML pages. Building things this way is really fun and really simple. It’s easy to understand and remix...
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