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.

• May 8th, 2007

  New browser extension: AutoAuth

  AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it [...]

• March 9th, 2007

  ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) Updated

  Version 1.4 of Performancing for Firefox has been released, and in the process, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The homepage has moved as well, from Performancing.com to ScribeFire.com. Besides the name change, this release includes the following changes: Support for Blogger blogs has been improved (now you can even post with ampersands!) We’ve added [...]

• January 25th, 2007

  Shortcuts are people too

  While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: [...] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing in one word or a short phrase. Anyway, one of my [...]

• January 25th, 2007

  URL Fixer gets a little British flavour

  URL Fixer will now correct “.ku” to “.uk”, but I’ve made no decision on colour, metre, or encyclopaedia. Cheerio!

• January 22nd, 2007

  Update to URL Fixer (1.2.12)

  I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.12. In addition to including a Catalan translation, there are two main changes to the correction algorithm: 1. “;//” will now be corrected to “://” (http;// => http://). 2. All commas and other semicolons will be changed to dots (www,google;co,uk => www.google.co.uk). You can install or upgrade URL Fixer [...]

• January 15th, 2007

  Minor update to URL Fixer

  I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.11. A bug was causing the Chinese translation to be displayed for English-speaking users, so if you were seeing “?? (R)” or Chinese characters instead of “Confirm corrections” in the context menu for the URL bar, go ahead and upgrade. (You can always download the newest version of URL [...]

• December 28th, 2006

  Slashdotter Updated: 1.8.9

  I’ve updated Slashdotter to accommodate the changes that Slashdot made to their HTML. Thanks to all who brought bugs to my attention.

• August 8th, 2006

  Slashdotter 1.8.6

  Slashdotter has been updated to fix a bug introduced in version 1.8.5. Comments that were condensed (i.e., only showing title, author, score) in threaded mode could not be retrieved via AJAX as Slashdotter was supposed to allow. That bug has been fixed, and the implementation has been made better than it was before it was [...]