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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.

• November 6th, 2008

  Four More Fennec Add-ons

  This is a Fennec fox. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four more add-ons: TwitterBar: Post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar AutoAuth: Automatically submits authentication dialogs YouTube Comment [...]

• July 17th, 2007

  Translation Tuesday

  There are a number of extension updates available today simply due to new translations: AutoAuth 1.1.1 French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Spanish (es-ES) Japanese (ja-JP) Portuguese (pt-PT) Feed Sidebar 1.1.1 German (de-DE) French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Italian (it-IT) Japanese (ja-JP) Russian (ru-RU) RSS Ticker 1.9.1 French (fr-FR) The updates can be downloaded from each add-on’s respective [...]

• July 11th, 2007

  AutoAuth updated with suggestion feature

  I’ve updated the AutoAuth Firefox extension with a “suggestion” feature: if no username/password is saved for a site, AutoAuth will supply a menu of other usernames that you’ve saved for the site’s other subdomains, along with an “Autofill” button to quickly use one of those suggestions to authenticate for the new subdomain. For example, if [...]

• May 11th, 2007

  Extension Updates: Feed Sidebar and AutoAuth

  I’ve pushed out updates to two of my Firefox extensions: AutoAuth and Feed Sidebar (formerly Feedbar). AutoAuth 1.0.1 includes a fix for a bug that was causing about:config dialogs for modifying values to close as soon as they were opened. Feed Sidebar 1.0.1 brings the extension out of alpha, and it includes several new locales, [...]

• May 8th, 2007

  New browser extension: AutoAuth

  AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it [...]