dietrich.ayala

I had the pleasure of being involved in a bunch of different activities at Mozfest this year. What is Mozfest? From the website: MozFest is an annual celebration of the open Internet movement. It...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/mozfest-2016-privacy-vanity-beacons-painting-dilemmas-and-tents/

Project SensorWeb is an experiment from the Connected Devices group at Mozilla in open publishing of environmental data. I am excited about this experiment because we’ve had some serious air q...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/harvesting-air-quality-data-with-a-nodemcu-sensorweb-and-ifttt/

Last month I spent a week working on IoT projects with a group of 40 researchers, designers and coders… in Anstruther, a small fishing village in Scotland. Not a high-tech hub, but that was th...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/bubble-and-tweak-iot-at-the-ends-of-the-earth/

Web IDE has gone though some twists and turns as a feature in Firefox, but one thing has remained constant for me: When I launch an app, I *always* want to debug it. Having to repeatedly wait and...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/fixing-a-papercut-in-firefoxs-webide/

I love Pocket and I love Firefox. But two things were driving me batty about the Pocket feature built into Firefox: 1. The design of the popup experience when you save a page to Pocket is… unfo...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/doublestitch-a-simpler-and-cleaner-pocket-for-firefox/

Atul Varma set up a quilt for MozCamp Asia 2012 which I thought was a fantastic tool for that type of event. It provided an engaging visualization, was collaboratively created, and allowed a quic...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/remixable-quilts-for-the-web/

Around 1,100 Mozillians will be in Portland next week. WELCOME! Here is a list of things I recommend that you see, do, eat and drink and some handy tips. I’ve focused on places that are in or n...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/mozlandia-a-portland-mini-guide-for-mozillians/

We use Mailman for mailing list management at Mozilla. However, we haven’t been able to control spam on those lists. Not only does spam not get caught before hitting Mailman, the built-in spam ...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/bookmarklet-for-bulk-spam-processing-with-mailman/

Tweets. Likes. Check-ins. Steps. Photos. Links. We emit a constant stream of content into the sites we use everyday. Is it ours? Well, it feels like it. And according to the terms of service, it ...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/baby-steps-to-owning-your-data/

Although Mozilla feels almost like a household name at this point, it is a relatively small organization – tiny, actually – compared to the companies that ship similar types of software . We ...

https://autonome.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/firefox-os-and-academic-programs/