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 31st, 2011

  Announcing Typo.js: Client-side JavaScript Spellchecking

  In which I spend lots of time on something that will eventually be made obsolete by a Chrome extension API.

• April 14th, 2008

  7 ways to be a better developer

  Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking about ways to become a better software developer, specifically in terms of Firefox extension development. I’m listing the ways that I came up with here; most of it can be generalized to the development of any end-user facing program or application, but I wrote it with extension [...]

• June 21st, 2007

  WAMP! BAM! POW!

  This morning, I needed to troubleshoot an error that was occurring in my Feed Statistics plugin when running on a Windows machine as well as under PHP 5. Since I normally do all of my development in *nix environments, I didn’t have such an environment readily available. Having installed Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows [...]

• June 6th, 2007

  Coverage of the Navigator 9 Beta

  Articles about the release of the Navigator 9 Beta have been all over the Web today. Here are the major ones that I’ve spotted: Slashdot: First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 Fark: Netscape releases a new browser. In other news, Netscape still makes a browser 456 Berea Street: Software Update Day Pronet Advertising: Netscape Navigator [...]

• June 5th, 2007

  Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released

  The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser here. Download it here. Read the release notes here. Discuss it here.

• May 19th, 2007

  TubeStop

  My latest browser extension, TubeStop, is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on YouTube.com videos. This means that you can open YouTube videos in multiple tabs without them all starting to play at once. Currently, this extension only works on videos at YouTube.com, not on YouTube videos embedded on non-YouTube.com websites [...]

• May 10th, 2007

  Twits Like Me

  Everybody and their mother has written a Twitter-based app, but I haven’t seen any so far that try and help you find other Twitterers that you’d find interesting, so I made one. It’s called “Twits Like Me” – just enter your Twitter screenname in the search box, and the Twits Like Me search engine will [...]

• May 8th, 2007

  New browser extension: AutoAuth

  AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it [...]