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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.

• December 16th, 2010

  Our 2010 Christmas Letter

  In which I sum up our year in a series of pithy attempts at humor.

• January 2nd, 2010

  2010 Calendar – January

  As is my way, I made Christina a calendar for Christmas again this year. This year’s theme was one of those little wooden people that artists use to help them sketch poses of the human body. (Christina doesn’t have any special attachment to it; I just thought it would be funny.) I’ll be sharing the [...]

• 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 28th, 2008

  Our 2008 Christmas Letter

  Friends, family, and people we felt obligated to send a Christmas letter to because you sent us one last year, First thing’s first: Some of you may have already heard that Christina is expecting… Expecting lots of presents at Christmas, that is! Seriously though, there’s a baby in her. It’s a boy named Henry, and [...]

• December 24th, 2007

  Christmas cookies

  We finished baking our Christmas cookies last night, and two new ones that we tried turned out especially well: Snowballs (as seen on Ooh you tasty little things…, and marshmallow fudge. Snowballs: White-chocolate coated buttercreams Marshmallow fudge