Punderline 69: Morning tea

I’m just a regular engineering student. I mean, sure, I like watching random educational youtube videos, using computers, and programming for fun, but I mean, hey, that’s why I’m in ECE. Yet, I’m not a hacker, nor do I have the skills to even remotely consider myself one. And even despite the plethora of reasons I should fail, I managed to do what I thought I could never do.

I admit, I used to think contributing to Firefox was basically impossible, especially as someone who didn’t yet know Rust or C++. And even if I overcame this hurdle, I thought it was hard to get set up, difficult to find bugs that are well-scoped to what I can actually accomplish given my skillset, and challenging to understand the complex codebases that would be typical of large software projects. But I wanted to help. And after hacking Google Chrome, I realized that maybe I could, or at least I could try.

If you’re like me, most of the time I prefer to just work in Linux and only rarely use Windows in my dual-boot setup. So, I’d rather only see the GRUB menu if I’m holding down a key to switch into Windows and otherwise simply default to Ubuntu. The process to set that up is a little involved, though, so be warned!