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.

• July 10th, 2007

  Twitter: What *are* people doing?

  Twitter exists solely for people to answer the question “What are you doing?”, and its users have been answering that question thousands of times per day since it launched. In an effort to find out what exactly Twitter’s users are doing, I checked a sample of 500,000 tweets to see what the most common “-ing” [...]

• May 9th, 2007

  A gift from ages past

  My family was in town this week, and my dad brought with him a gift for me. He related to me how they had been doing some cleaning at their church, going through some areas of the old building that had been neglected for far too long, when a staff member came across an interesting [...]

• February 22nd, 2007

  Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

  Wiiiii!

• January 29th, 2007

  Looking Foxy

  My “Firefox 2 Addons Team” t-shirt finally arrived in the mail! I’ll have to look into getting AOL to spring for shirts that say “I worked on Netscape 9 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a great browsing experience.”

• January 20th, 2007

  The A to Z of me

  I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official [...]

• November 26th, 2006

  “Dave & Buster’s” pwns j00

• October 22nd, 2006

  Why I love Bittorrent

  Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via the University of Minnesota’s fat pipes: 4 hours Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via 37 different users using uTorrent: 21 minutes

• September 30th, 2006

  Something I can’t stand about Digg

  Here’s something I can’t stand about Digg: Say you’re not logged in and browsing the front page, opening stories and discussions in tabs (or new windows, if you’re stuck in the past) as you go, and you see a story you want to either digg or bury. So you go to the login box on [...]