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.

• August 26th, 2011

  An API for Browser Screenshots

  A proposal to reduce the number of out-of-date screenshots on the Web.

• May 24th, 2011

  Offline Mode

  In which I Google nothing.

• December 16th, 2010

  Our 2010 Christmas Letter

  In which I sum up our year in a series of pithy attempts at humor.

• June 11th, 2010

  YouTube Comment Snob in the news

  YouTube Comment Snob got some press from the BBC’s Webscape segment; the coverage starts around the three-minute mark, right after a very complimentary bit on Jay Meattle’s Shareaholic.

• June 1st, 2010

  Blast from the past: The Humor Archive

  There’s no point to this post; it’s just a collection of memories I have about launching one of my first websites. The first website I ever built was called “The Humor Archive:” It went online in late 1999 at the URL http://ticon.net/~finke/. The motivation behind the building of the site was that our ISP offered [...]

• February 27th, 2010

  Making Add-on/User Communication Less Annoying

  When a new user downloads TwitterBar, there are a number of things I want them to know or questions I want to ask them. So what is the best method to communicate with an add-on user? The solution I’ve been using for a while is to pop up a dialog like this: There are several [...]

• January 13th, 2010

  2010 Calendar – December

  “December: Jesus is the reason for the season.”

• January 12th, 2010

  2010 Calendar – November

  “November: It’s probably cold out. Stay in and do a puzzle.”