Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design issues of millions of WordPress users.

• March 27th, 2009

  Strong Man of God

  I’m pleased to introduce the next-generation version of the project I announced back in August. His name is Gabriel Christopher Finke – 7 lbs, 13 oz; 22 inches long; born at 1:06 AM on Friday, March 27, 2009. He has his mother’s eyes and his father’s sense of irony.

• March 23rd, 2009

  TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs

  Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/ before being sent to Twitter. is.gd offers the shortest URLs around, so you have more room in your tweet for your words. [...]

• March 19th, 2009

  Retweeting in Python

  My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind [...]

• March 18th, 2009

  TubeStop for Google Chrome

  When Google released a document today showing the design process for Google Chrome extensions, I thought it would be fitting to have one of the first third-party extensions for Chrome address a major shortcoming of one of Google’s other products. With that thought, I give you: Install TubeStop for Google Chrome What is TubeStop? It’s [...]

• March 15th, 2009

  New Web Host

  If you’re reading this, then this site is up and running on a new host (WebFaction – no complaints yet). I think I got everything migrated over properly, but if you happen to notice anything broken or buggy, please let me know.

• March 14th, 2009

  Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta Update

  I’ve published an update to the beta of Feed Sidebar that I talked about here: Sort Your Feeds in Feed Sidebar. In this version (3.2pre2), I’ve made the following changes: Enhanced the sorting mechanisms so that updates occur more seamlessly. Added some accessibility fixes, courtesy of Marco Zehe. Fixed some security holes related to JavaScript [...]

• March 12th, 2009

  Want to make some money?

  Can you write Facebook or iPhone Apps? Do you like money? If so, have I got a deal for you: We’re looking for some help building out our iPhone and Facebook applications for Mahalo Answers. If you know of any great developers who have done a really solid application for either platform (or who are [...]

• March 3rd, 2009

  I invented Facebook

  Ok, well not really. But I like to think that I *could* have. The summer after my senior year of high school (that’s 2002), I came up with an idea for a website while delivering pizzas, and I had this exact conversation with my then-girlfriend (now my wife): Me: “Wouldn’t it be cool if there [...]