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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.

• 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 [...]

• April 20th, 2007

  Buggy RSS feeds at Digg

  I just noticed a strange bug with Digg’s RSS feeds: when you subscribe to a feed for a search term (to monitor submissions of your blog posts, for example), sometimes the feed will be invalid because it is missing closing </channel> and </rss> tags. This means that the feed won’t be parsed by most readers, [...]

• 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 [...]

• March 9th, 2007

  ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) Updated

  Version 1.4 of Performancing for Firefox has been released, and in the process, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The homepage has moved as well, from Performancing.com to ScribeFire.com. Besides the name change, this release includes the following changes: Support for Blogger blogs has been improved (now you can even post with ampersands!) We’ve added [...]

• March 5th, 2007

  Sorry, Austria

  I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.3.1; new features since 1.3 are a Czech translation and a fix so that it no longer tries to correct www.orf.at (a popular Austrian news site) to www.org.at (not a popular Austrian news site). You can install or upgrade URL Fixer from its homepage.

• March 4th, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

• February 26th, 2007

  ScribeFire Development

  FYI: I’ve been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I’ll be posting about its progress occasionally.

• February 16th, 2007

  Feed subscribers

  Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use [...]