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.

• January 3rd, 2010

  2010 Calendar – February

  “February: Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to let your crush know how you feel.”

• January 2nd, 2010

  2010 Calendar – January

  As is my way, I made Christina a calendar for Christmas again this year. This year’s theme was one of those little wooden people that artists use to help them sketch poses of the human body. (Christina doesn’t have any special attachment to it; I just thought it would be funny.) I’ll be sharing the [...]

• December 21st, 2009

  Our 2009 Christmas Letter

  (Here’s last year’s letter for some context.) Why hello there. I didn’t hear you come in. You may have heard that we had some excitement around here in late March, when we were finally able to experience the fruits of our “labor,” so to speak. That’s right, we re-financed our mortgage! We reset the 30-year [...]

• 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 [...]

• August 16th, 2009

  New Job

  Three years ago, I blogged about a new resume-hosting site called Emurse.com that got me an interview (and a job) at AOL-owned Netscape. Well, things have a funny way of working out, and after leaving AOL to work with an incredible development team at Mahalo, I’ve left Mahalo to lead development of now AOL-owned Emurse. [...]

• August 1st, 2009

  Gabriel’s Birth Story

  Note: This birth story is accompanied by the messages that I posted to Twitter during the course of the day in order to keep my friends and family up-to-date on what was happening. We had no idea that we’d end up in Labor & Delivery on Thursday, March 26. Gabriel’s due-date was the 20th, so [...]

• June 5th, 2009

  Happy National Donut Day!

  I’m going to use this occasion to test Mahalo’s new embeddable pages: National Donut Day Embed this widget See full results for National Donut Day

• April 4th, 2009

  Found this Christmas tree ornament on the lawn

  Christina explained that it most likely passed through the dog. That would explain the missing string and glossy paint… Posted via email from Christopher’s posterous