ThunderCast #2: Mozilla's Mike Conley & The Retro Internet Retreat

Welcome back to the ThunderCast, the official podcast of Mozilla Thunderbird! In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome our first special guest: Mike Conley, Principal Software developer at Mozilla. Mike is a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described "pre-internet phenomenon" among many other things.

We had a wonderful conversation about the early days of the internet, Mike's early work on Mozilla Messaging, and his current work on Firefox. He also gives us a peek behind the curtain of upcoming Picture-in-Picture features, and some fresh changes to Firefox's migration tools.

We also asked Mike about some of the more underrated features of Firefox. Plus, we get the community involved by asking you which Thunderbird features more people should know about.

Hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Finally, here are some of the links we mentioned:

1) uBlock Add-on for Thunderbird:https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/...) The Joy of Coding:https://mikeconley.ca/jochttps://www.... on YouTube3) Neocities, making the internet fun againhttps://neocities.org4) Follow us on Mastodon: Thunderbird: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbirdM... https://mastodon.online/@mconley@mozi... https://mastodon.social/@ryanleesipes... https://layer8.space/@killyourfm

01:54 - Intro
01:55 - Mike's Origin Story
13:03 - Fond memories of the early internet
21:41 - MIke's work on Firefox (Part 1)
23:35 - Firefox features more people should know about
31:31 - More people should use Reader Mode
36:15 - Thunderbird features more people should know about
50:43 - Mike's shoutout to Thunderbird developers
57:57 - Mike's work on Firefox (Part 2)
01:16:48 - Closing comments

ThunderCast
Episode 2
May 8, 2023

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