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 24th, 2011

  Offline Mode

  In which I Google nothing.

• September 14th, 2007

  Google should know better

  I was checking out some stats for my website with Google’s Webmaster Tools, and what did I see? Google moved https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostic to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostics (notice the trailing “s”) without setting up any sort of redirect. Google: how are search engines going to find you if you don’t set up proper redirects??

• August 7th, 2007

  How to get hei…

  I was just about to search for how to get height of browser window, when Google suggested something much more worthy of my time:

• July 19th, 2007

  Paging Johnny…

  I just saw this ad next to a GMail message about ScribeFire: There must be a better method for finding an amnesic Johnny Depp than poorly targeted Google ads.

• June 27th, 2007

  Google redefines the folder

  Inside the official announcement of some upgrades to Google Documents is this section about the new “folders” feature: “Almost from the day we launched people have been clamoring for folders. They’re here! [...] documents can live in more than one folder at a time.” I don’t know about you, but where I come from, that’s [...]

• June 26th, 2007

  Dear Google…

  Why do people only write formal letters to corporations when they have a problem? It’s like the college-aged child who only writes home when he needs money. I’d like to see more of this: Dear Google, How are things with you? I’m doing well, if you were wondering. Congratulations on your DoubleClick acquisition; it sounds [...]

• May 19th, 2007

  Decommissioning GoogleTabs

  I’ve decided to retire GoogleTabs, one of the very first extensions I ever wrote. GoogleTabs adds a context-menu option to open all of the Google search results on the current page in tabs. I made this decision for several reasons: I don’t have time to keep up with Google. Every time they change the HTML [...]

• February 28th, 2007

  Traffic added to Google Maps

  Google has added a traffic overlay to its map service, and they’ve miraculously included the Twin Cities metro area. I never go anywhere, but my wife is going to love this.