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.

• October 23rd, 2007

  Best When Used By

  So my side project that I’ve been working on is now in something of a public beta, as it got linked from Lifehacker earlier today. It’s called Best When Used By, and it’s a site for tracking the expiration dates of your perishable foods. You put in a food and its “use by” date, and [...]

• October 8th, 2007

  Looking for some alpha testers

  Is anyone interesting in helping alpha test and/or do some QA on a side project I’m working on? It’s a fairly simple Web application that should be relevant to pretty much everyone, but it will obviously be more useful to some people than to others. (How’s that for specifics?) If you want to take a [...]

• September 28th, 2007

  Looking for a few good CSS rules

  Is there anyone out there with some design skills that wants to be a part of a little side project I’m doing? Basically, I need a clean and simple website design plus a few icons. Ping me at cfinke@gmail.com for more details.

• August 3rd, 2007

  What’s old is new again

  A few weeks ago, I started a little side project, and I decided to write it in Python with the Django framework based on all of the good things I’ve heard about it. I may never go back to PHP. It’s like this: imagine you’ve been driving the same 1987 Dodge Dynasty for the last [...]