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 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. [...]

• 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

• March 12th, 2009

  Want to make some money?

  Can you write Facebook or iPhone Apps? Do you like money? If so, have I got a deal for you: We’re looking for some help building out our iPhone and Facebook applications for Mahalo Answers. If you know of any great developers who have done a really solid application for either platform (or who are [...]

• January 30th, 2009

  Everything You Know Is Wrong

  I was walking to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams when I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension, and soon I was abducted by some aliens from space who kinda looked like Jamie Farr. They sucked out my internal organs and they took some Polaroids and said I was a darn good sport, and as [...]

• November 4th, 2008

  The easiest way to find election results

  Mahalo is by far the easiest way to find election results this year. The homepage has a big fat presidential election tracker on the top that can be read from across the room: And the Guides have built a comprehensive (and I mean comprehensive) list of state election results pages: Alabama Election Results Alabama Exit [...]

• November 3rd, 2008

  Mahalo huge in Hawaii

  My wife and I spent a week on the big island of Hawaii last month, and I have to say that I was floored by how popular Mahalo is out there! As soon as we landed in Hawaii (and even on the flight from Newark), I couldn’t go more than a few minutes without overhearing [...]

• October 12th, 2008

  Sprites and the new Mahalo homepage

  On Friday, we at Mahalo launched a revamped homepage and site-wide redesign, the result of months of technical and editorial development. I’d like to talk specifically about one new technical aspect of the homepage. The old Mahalo homepage had, at any given moment, between 8 and 10 content images. (By “content images,” I’m referring to [...]

• May 22nd, 2008

  Does Mahalo crash your Firefox?

  We at Mahalo have had quite a few reports of Firefox 3 crashing when visiting Mahalo.com. (Here’s a video of it happening.) We’d love to get this fixed, but we are unable to duplicate the problem on our own machines. If this happens to you, here is some information that you could send us to [...]