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.

• 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.

• January 30th, 2008

  Here’s What You Should Think

  I’ve imported all of the posts from my first blog (“Here’s What You Should Think”), which I started and ended in 2004. Most of them are related to Toby, a webmail client I wrote in college, and anyInventory, an open-source inventory system I was developing around the same time. Toby is no longer supported. I [...]

• August 3rd, 2007

  Owning my name

  A couple of weeks ago, I was shopping for a domain name for a little project I’m working on (more on that at a later date), and I noticed that chrisfinke.com was not registered. Long story short, it is now.

• May 17th, 2007

  Ambition

  I’ve decided that my current goal in life is to someday be cool enough to have a guest blogger on my site. That’s when you know that you’ve “made it.” If you’d like to be my guest blogger, send my a few examples of posts you’d write. Ideally, they should be about me and either [...]

• May 1st, 2007

  Glowing recommendation

  Just found some new content for my About Me page, courtesy of Victor Agreda, Jr.: “The template on his blog kicks Safari in the nuts, runs like a coward, and leaves it writhing in pain without help.” (For the record, I gave my blog template a stern talking-to, and it has promised to stop doing [...]

• April 26th, 2007

  Feedback

  I’m kind of bored, so I’m pulling out the old standby that is almost guaranteed to provide some moderately interesting comments – a reader survey! The latest check I did of feed subscribers numbered in the low triple-digits, and I’m curious about what kind of people are reading what I write. So I submit these [...]

• March 4th, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

• February 22nd, 2007

  Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

  Wiiiii!