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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.

• June 18th, 2009

  Feed Sidebar 4.0 Released

  Feed Sidebar 4.0 has been released for all users of any previous version of Feed Sidebar, and this version has two great improvements over version 3.1: You can now sort your feeds by three different criteria: Feeds are now updated constantly, rather than all at once. So if you have 60 feeds, and you have [...]

• May 15th, 2009

  Feed Suggester for Feed Sidebar?

  I was thinking it would be neat to add a recommendations component to Feed Sidebar. It would work like this: You’d opt in to share your list of feeds anonymously. Your list of feeds is sent to a central server. Other users do the same thing. Magic happens. The Feed Sidebar would occasionally recommend a [...]

• April 3rd, 2009

  Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta 3: A Gentler Feed Updater

  I’ve been working on decreasing the CPU consumption of my Feed Sidebar Firefox extension; one of its main problems is that when it’s time to update the feeds, Firefox can grind to a halt while the Sidebar starts to make tens or hundreds of HTTP requests. A solution I’ve settled on allows the sidebar to [...]

• March 14th, 2009

  Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta Update

  I’ve published an update to the beta of Feed Sidebar that I talked about here: Sort Your Feeds in Feed Sidebar. In this version (3.2pre2), I’ve made the following changes: Enhanced the sorting mechanisms so that updates occur more seamlessly. Added some accessibility fixes, courtesy of Marco Zehe. Fixed some security holes related to JavaScript [...]

• February 6th, 2009

  Sort your feeds in Feed Sidebar

  A lot of people have asked for the ability to sort the feeds that appear in the Feed Sidebar extension for Firefox, so I’ve taken some time to integrate some basic sorting options. I would like to get some feedback on this feature before releasing it to the general Feed Sidebar audience, so I’ve uploaded [...]

• August 3rd, 2008

  Feed Sidebar Update

  Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that displays the items from your newsfeeds in a sidebar. It can be downloaded for free from Mozilla Add-ons. I just uploaded an update for Feed Sidebar to Mozilla Add-ons. Changes since version 3.0.1 include: New Features Added an option to always have new [...]

• July 6th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3

  Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for [...]

• April 25th, 2008

  Recommended by 4 out of 5 Mozillas

  Mozilla updated their recommended add-ons list today (see this blog post by Basil Hashem for the full story), but the main change I’d like to draw your attention to is that both Mahalo Share and Feed Sidebar were added to the list. Hurray!