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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.

• December 10th, 2010

  Using Google Chrome-style locales in Firefox extensions

  In which I simplify cross-browser extension translation.

• April 8th, 2010

  ScribeFire for Google Chrome

  I’ve published a post over on the ScribeFire blog with the details, but if you’re running Google Chrome, you can now install ScribeFire for Google Chrome: This first (alpha) version took three weeks of development, contains about 3,000 lines of JavaScript, uses jQuery, and is completely open-source. Oh, and I’m using it to write this [...]

• February 17th, 2008

  ScribeFire update: 1.4.5

  I’ve released an update to ScribeFire that adds a few oft-requested features: image positioning, font selection, support for WordPress’s “<–more–>” post splitter, and a confirmation dialog before deleting a note. You can download the latest version from Mozilla Addons, or you can read the full release details at the ScribeFire blog.

• July 17th, 2007

  ScribeFire 1.4.1 Released

  ScribeFire 1.4.1 has been released. See the ScribeFire blog for details on what changes have been made, or download it from Mozilla Addons.

• July 12th, 2007

  ScribeFire Updates

  Some updates on the ScribeFire project that I’m part of: There’s a new website up at ScribeFire.com – a WordPress blog with a clean, writing-themed template A Support Forum has been launched for ScribeFire help and discussion. We’re on the verge of releasing our next version – it will be mostly small fixes and preparations [...]

• May 23rd, 2007

  Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/23

  This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/23 In other Digg news, the last 13 stories from this blog that have been submitted to Digg have all [...]

• May 11th, 2007

  Own a piece of history

  For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw [...]

• March 29th, 2007

  ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 Released

  ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include: Spanish translation Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here) Added detailed error messages for when adding a Blogger account fails (ScribeFire, previously named “Performancing for Firefox,” is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and [...]