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.

• April 19th, 2011

  Discontinuing Slashdotter

  In which I discontinue Slashdotter.

• December 17th, 2010

  Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices

  In which I develop an alternative password input method for touchscreens.

• March 26th, 2010

  Ambilight for Your Browser or: Monetizing an Add-on with Fat Plug

  I’ve written a new Firefox extension; it’s called True Colors, and it bleeds the colors from the web page you’re viewing into the tab bar and status bar. Think of it as Ambilight for your browser. The technical details behind the extension are interesting, but I won’t go into detail on that here, since Splashnology’s [...]

• November 6th, 2008

  Four More Fennec Add-ons

  This is a Fennec fox. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four more add-ons: TwitterBar: Post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar AutoAuth: Automatically submits authentication dialogs YouTube Comment [...]

• July 6th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3

  Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for [...]

• April 25th, 2008

  Recommended by 4 out of 5 Mozillas

  Mozilla updated their recommended add-ons list today (see this blog post by Basil Hashem for the full story), but the main change I’d like to draw your attention to is that both Mahalo Share and Feed Sidebar were added to the list. Hurray!

• April 22nd, 2008

  Finding unused entities in your Firefox extensions

  If you’ve maintained a Firefox extension for any amount of time, you know that you can accumulate unused entities as you change the UI or add/remove features. They just pile up in your .dtd and .properties files, taking up space. Here’s a bash script that will list out any entities or entries in .properties files [...]

• March 3rd, 2008

  TubeStop reviews requested

  I’ve finally uploaded TubeStop to Mozilla Add-ons, but it can’t be brought out of the sandbox (protected area for untrusted extensions) until it has some reviews and undergoes an editor approval process. If you use TubeStop and find it useful, I’d appreciate it if you’d write a quick review of it over at the Mozilla [...]