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 17th, 2007

  Translation Tuesday

  There are a number of extension updates available today simply due to new translations: AutoAuth 1.1.1 French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Spanish (es-ES) Japanese (ja-JP) Portuguese (pt-PT) Feed Sidebar 1.1.1 German (de-DE) French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Italian (it-IT) Japanese (ja-JP) Russian (ru-RU) RSS Ticker 1.9.1 French (fr-FR) The updates can be downloaded from each add-on’s respective [...]

• April 29th, 2007

  RSS Ticker (finally) updated to 1.9

  I’ve finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension. You can [...]

• April 24th, 2007

  Announcing Feedbar (Firefox extension)

  About a year ago, I wrote my first RSS-related Firefox extension, RSS Ticker. It was intended to be used for getting instant notifications from a small number of feeds. As the number of feeds I follow has grown, I’ve found the ticker interface inadequate and frustrating, so I’ve been working on a new RSS extension [...]

• March 23rd, 2007

  New Mozilla Addons site is was live

  After a series of delays, the new Mozilla Addons site (codenamed Remora) went live late last night. Changes to the site include redesigned visual aspects, localization, and an overhauled discussion/comment system, but probably the biggest change you’ll notice is that new extensions do not undergo a mandatory approval process before being available for download. As [...]

• October 22nd, 2006

  RSS Ticker Updated

  If you were running RSS Ticker 1.8.9 with Firefox 2.0 RC3 and some of your Atom feeds weren’t being displayed, this update is for you.

• September 30th, 2006

  Extension Updates

  I’ve just updated all of my extensions to be compatible with Firefox 2.0. They’re all available for download at my site, and they’ll all eventually be available at Mozilla Addons as well. No new features for these updates, just compatibility fixes.

• July 28th, 2006

  Shopping Made Easy

  I don’t like to shop. So when I decided that I needed a bigger desk (and a new coffee table and some PC133 SDRAM – email me if you’ve got extra), I did what lazy shoppers do – I hit up CraigsList. It turns out that since I live within a half hour of a [...]