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.

• February 16th, 2007

  Feed subscribers

  Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use [...]

• February 12th, 2007

  Guilty as charged…

  Busted…

• February 10th, 2007

  Content theft

  I noticed via a pingback to one of my posts that someone is scraping all of my blog posts, publishing them at netscape9.com, and displaying Adsense ads next to them. I don’t know which route I should take first: get their Google Adsense account closed for violating the TOS, contact GoDaddy about the user using [...]

• February 3rd, 2007

  On resurrecting Digg’s Top Users page

  My restoration of Digg’s Top Users page yesterday got a lot of press around the Web: Both the list and my blog post about the list were submitted to Digg, but both were buried off of the front page. (Buried, or manually removed?) Michael Arrington mentioned the list at TechCrunch, and the readers commenting on [...]

• February 3rd, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

• January 30th, 2007

  Finally, some recognition

  Google sees me for who I really am.

• January 26th, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

  After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social news/bookmarking source, fixed a few bugs with logging non-social-referring sites, and [...]

• January 26th, 2007

  Sign of success

  Just got this automated e-mail: The domain chrisfinke.com has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit for January. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Digg! I better lay low for a while… :-)