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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.

• March 25th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar 2.0

  Feed Sidebar 2.0 has been released. Upgrade now to enable filtering your feeds with the search bar and to experience the big improvements in performance and memory usage. Filter your feeds with the search bar. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.

• March 24th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar 2.0pre

  If anyone who has been using Feed Sidebar is interested in testing out the next version, you can install this nightly build of Feed Sidebar 2.0pre. Besides massive improvements in performance and compatibility for various feed types, it sports a nifty new search bar that you can use to filter your feeds: (Clicking the magnifying [...]

• February 19th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar updated with everything you wanted

  I’ve just released an update to the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension that adds essentially every major feature request that I’ve gotten since version 1.2 came out: Biggest improvement: Feed Sidebar now has its own history for tracking which items are read, rather than using the browser history. This means that you can clear your browsing [...]

• December 4th, 2007

  Simple pleasures: Favicons

  I just noticed that /favicon.ico on the Weblogs, Inc. blogs finally redirects to /media/favicon.ico instead of 404′ing. This is something I requested a long time ago, and now my feed sidebar is looking a lot more colorful. Thanks Blogsmith developers!

• 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 8th, 2007

  New Feed Sidebar feature: Age Limit

  What is the Feed Sidebar? It is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that displays all of the unread items from your news feeds (also known as Live Bookmarks) in the sidebar for easy management. One of the most frequent feature requests I get for the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension is the ability to [...]

• 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, [...]

• April 29th, 2007

  RSS Ticker (finally) updated to 1.9

  I’ve finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension. You can [...]