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.

• February 23rd, 2008

  Abandoned workspace

  Took this picture of the just-drywalled kitchen after calling it quits for the day, and it turned out to have a really eerie feel (which I love).

• May 11th, 2007

  Own a piece of history

  For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw [...]

• April 20th, 2007

  Software isn’t the only thing I build

  Christina and I just finished remodeling the stoop in front of our house. What used to be crumbling concrete steps covered in peeling outdoor carpet is now a wider and more inviting stairway complete with flower boxes and new handrails. Except for the handrail parts, we designed and built it ourselves from scratch (scratch being [...]

• December 28th, 2006

  America’s Next Top Remodel

  My wife and I recently remodeled our back entryway, partly because it needed it and partly as preparation for remodeling our kitchen. We replaced 25 year-old linoleum with laminate flooring, stripped off the textured wallpaper, painted the walls and doors (after repairing some pretty big holes and cracks hidden by the wallpaper), and put up [...]