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 concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• December 17th, 2010

  Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices

  In which I develop an alternative password input method for touchscreens.

• December 10th, 2010

  Using Google Chrome-style locales in Firefox extensions

  In which I simplify cross-browser extension translation.

• September 13th, 2010

  My experience with developing a freemium browser add-on

  In which I discover that selling something that used to be free is hard.

• June 11th, 2010

  YouTube Comment Snob in the news

  YouTube Comment Snob got some press from the BBC’s Webscape segment; the coverage starts around the three-minute mark, right after a very complimentary bit on Jay Meattle’s Shareaholic.

• April 8th, 2010

  ScribeFire for Google Chrome

  I’ve published a post over on the ScribeFire blog with the details, but if you’re running Google Chrome, you can now install ScribeFire for Google Chrome: This first (alpha) version took three weeks of development, contains about 3,000 lines of JavaScript, uses jQuery, and is completely open-source. Oh, and I’m using it to write this [...]

• March 26th, 2010

  Ambilight for Your Browser or: Monetizing an Add-on with Fat Plug

  I’ve written a new Firefox extension; it’s called True Colors, and it bleeds the colors from the web page you’re viewing into the tab bar and status bar. Think of it as Ambilight for your browser. The technical details behind the extension are interesting, but I won’t go into detail on that here, since Splashnology’s [...]

• February 27th, 2010

  Making Add-on/User Communication Less Annoying

  When a new user downloads TwitterBar, there are a number of things I want them to know or questions I want to ask them. So what is the best method to communicate with an add-on user? The solution I’ve been using for a while is to pop up a dialog like this: There are several [...]

• February 24th, 2010

  TwitterBar 2.9 Available: Post to Multiple Twitter Accounts

  Version 2.9 of TwitterBar for Firefox was made available on Mozilla Add-ons today, and it has a very cool new feature: you can now use TwitterBar with more than one Twitter account. To post to a specific account, just type your message like this: I am posting to my other account. –@other_account –post If you [...]