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.

• February 15th, 2007

  Top 100 Update

  I just wanted to post that, despite some, ahem, setbacks, the Digg Top Users list is still being updated daily and is as accurate as ever.

• February 13th, 2007

  Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IV

  I just posted this week’s Netscape 9 update at the Netscape blog: Netscape 9 Saves You Time: “Netscape 9 will be the first major browser to automatically correct common typos entered in the location bar. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types of common mistakes and correct them for you (asking you to [...]

• February 9th, 2007

  Ahead of the curve

  Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have [...]

• February 7th, 2007

  Yahoo shortens search box, makes Techmeme

  Seriously, why is this news? They slapped a “width: 192px;” in their style tag, and I see it in half a dozen of my RSS feeds.

• February 6th, 2007

  Netscape 9 Teasers: Week III

  This week at the Netscape blog, I wrote about the allowances we’ve made in Netscape 9 for installing extensions targeted at Firefox 2: “Since Netscape 9 will share an architecture with Firefox 2, it is very likely that most Firefox 2 extensions will work in Netscape 9 without modification. This is why Netscape 9 will [...]

• February 5th, 2007

  Digg removes rank information from profiles (or, Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride)

  This morning, Digg removed ranking information from user profiles. I commented on the story, pointing to my top users list for people who were still interested in their rank. Digg CEO Jay Adelson responded to my comment thusly: “We no longer display that rank information, so don’t be surprised if Chris’s list is no longer [...]

• February 3rd, 2007

  On resurrecting Digg’s Top Users page

  My restoration of Digg’s Top Users page yesterday got a lot of press around the Web: Both the list and my blog post about the list were submitted to Digg, but both were buried off of the front page. (Buried, or manually removed?) Michael Arrington mentioned the list at TechCrunch, and the readers commenting on [...]

• February 3rd, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.