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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 7th, 2009

  Add-On-Con 2009

  Just a note that I’ll be at the 2nd annual Add-On-Con this week in Mountain View, CA. Add-on Con is a gathering of browser add-on developers and representatives from the browser vendors (Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft). I’ll be participating in the opening keynote discussion, which will address the question, “Do Add-ons Need a Marketplace?” The [...]

• May 14th, 2009

  Abandoning Yammer Time

  I am going to be abandoning development of the Yammer Time extension for Firefox. I no longer have the time or motivation to maintain it. Is there anyone out there is interested in taking ownership of it? If so, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com, or leave your contact info in the comments. It’s fairly simple as [...]

• March 23rd, 2009

  TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs

  Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/ before being sent to Twitter. is.gd offers the shortest URLs around, so you have more room in your tweet for your words. [...]

• 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 [...]

• November 6th, 2008

  Four More Fennec Add-ons

  This is a Fennec fox. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four more add-ons: TwitterBar: Post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar AutoAuth: Automatically submits authentication dialogs YouTube Comment [...]

• October 29th, 2008

  URL Fixer now compatible with Fennec (Mobile Firefox)

  Fennec is the codename for Mozilla’s work-in-progress mobile browser for phones and smaller computing devices, and since it supports extensions just like Firefox, I’ve started adding Fennec compatibility to the extensions I’ve written (when it makes sense). URL Fixer version 1.5 is fully Fennec-compatible. I think it’s even more useful in Fennec than in Firefox, [...]

• September 15th, 2008

  Links Like This gets a facelift

  Links Like This is a Firefox extension I wrote last year that allows you to automatically open multiple links from a webpage. I released the first version in May of 2007 but never really went back to update or improve it; that’s about to change. During a recent conversation about Links Like This, I realized [...]

• September 11th, 2008

  Stop! Yammer Time

  Yammer is a service designed to help co-workers keep each other up-to-date on their work progress by answering the question “What are you working on?” Yammer Time is a Firefox extension that reminds you to use Yammer. By default, every 4 hours between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays, it will pop up this obtrusive prompt: [...]