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.

• December 21st, 2009

  Our 2009 Christmas Letter

  (Here’s last year’s letter for some context.) Why hello there. I didn’t hear you come in. You may have heard that we had some excitement around here in late March, when we were finally able to experience the fruits of our “labor,” so to speak. That’s right, we re-financed our mortgage! We reset the 30-year [...]

• December 17th, 2009

  Extending the Web, not just the browser, with Twitter Filter

  One of the things that annoys me about Twitter is the constant “check-ins” from location apps like foursquare and Gowalla. Since I don’t use these apps, I don’t especially care that you’re at the Starbucks in Dallas or that you’re the mayor of your bus stop. To solve this problem, I wrote a browser add-on [...]

• December 14th, 2009

  TwitterBar is a winner!

  (And so are you, for using it!) It was announced today that TwitterBar is one of the ten winners of the Mozilla Mobile Add-on Challenge: “After reviewing a multitude of submissions and much debate around many worthy contenders, the judges from the AMO and Mobile teams have chosen ten (10) of the best (innovative, useful, [...]

• December 8th, 2009

  Lost and FireFound

  I’ve written a new extension for Firefox, and it’s called FireFound: FireFound is an add-on for Firefox and Fennec (mobile Firefox) that helps your find your computer (or mobile phone, in the case of Fennec) if it is lost or stolen. Every time your computer’s location changes, FireFound sends a secure message to a central [...]

• December 7th, 2009

  Add-On-Con 2009

  Just a note that I’ll be at the 2nd annual Add-On-Con this week in Mountain View, CA. Add-on Con is a gathering of browser add-on developers and representatives from the browser vendors (Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft). I’ll be participating in the opening keynote discussion, which will address the question, “Do Add-ons Need a Marketplace?” The [...]

• December 4th, 2009

  TwitterBar for Google Chrome

  If you’re using Google Chrome, and you’re running the developer version that allows extensions to be installed, you can now install TwitterBar for Google Chrome. After you’ve installed it, just click on the Twitter icon in the toolbar bar, type your message, and press Enter to post your message to Twitter. (You’ll have to authorize [...]