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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 25th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar 2.0

  Feed Sidebar 2.0 has been released. Upgrade now to enable filtering your feeds with the search bar and to experience the big improvements in performance and memory usage. Filter your feeds with the search bar. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.

• March 24th, 2008

  Feed Sidebar 2.0pre

  If anyone who has been using Feed Sidebar is interested in testing out the next version, you can install this nightly build of Feed Sidebar 2.0pre. Besides massive improvements in performance and compatibility for various feed types, it sports a nifty new search bar that you can use to filter your feeds: (Clicking the magnifying [...]

• October 26th, 2007

  Thanks, Gawker!

  Alright, so which Gawker Media developer reads my blog? Just yesterday, I posted a request that Gawker not include “categories” before the post titles in the RSS feeds, and I just noticed that they’ve been moved to the end of the title and enclosed in brackets – that’s good enough for me. Thanks Gawker!

• October 25th, 2007

  Gawker: Please fix your feeds

  The Gawker Media blogs (Consumerist, Gizmodo, etc.) do something with their RSS feeds that is incredibly annoying: they include a “category” of sorts before the title of the post: This does two things: 1. It obscures the actual title of the post. Many feed readers are loaded in the sidebar, which has a limited width. [...]

• September 7th, 2007

  Feed Statistics 1.2: Monitor your most popular feeds

  I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to version 1.2; this update adds a “Top Feeds” page where you can see what the most popular feeds for your website are (e.g., main feed, category feeds, different feed formats). It shows a list of all of the feed URLs that your subscibers are requesting, and [...]

• September 2nd, 2007

  Easy-peasy podcasting

  Want an easy way to generate a podcast or RSS feed? At Eliot’s request, I wrote a PHP script that generates an RSS feed based on the contents of its parent directory, so whenever you add files to that directory (or its subdirectories), the feed is updated with links to those files. It also supports [...]

• July 23rd, 2007

  Buggy Digg RSS Feeds: Resolved

  Digg finally fixed the bug I reported and wrote about here 3 months ago. When you consider that my feed reader checks for new items every 15 minutes, 10 hours per day, I received an unreadable feed almost 4,000 times.

• July 9th, 2007

  GigaOM hacked?

  At about 12:50 PM CST today, the main RSS feed for Om Malik’s GigaOm blog started displaying only links to articles at Panzera Security Blog. Did someone hack into Om’s Feedburner account, or was this an accident? Update: I’ve contacted Om about it, but I don’t know how much attention he pays to the messages [...]