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.

• March 19th, 2009

  Retweeting in Python

  My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind [...]

• May 23rd, 2008

  Tracking the top Diggers

  For the past 15 months, I’ve been maintaining a list of the top 100 (and top 1000) Digg users. As Digg has become less and less relevant to my interests (and the interests of the greater tech community), I’ve decided to stop updating these lists. However, I have chosen to provide the tools I have [...]

• 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 [...]