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.

• May 2nd, 2007

  On Digg and “Revolution”

  Jeff Harrell sums up my thoughts on the matter better than I could have. “What happened last night wasn’t a revolution, [...] what happened last night is that a bunch of kids on the playground banded together to beat up another kid, a kid they saw as richer or more powerful or more snotty than [...]

• March 23rd, 2007

  New Mozilla Addons site is was live

  After a series of delays, the new Mozilla Addons site (codenamed Remora) went live late last night. Changes to the site include redesigned visual aspects, localization, and an overhauled discussion/comment system, but probably the biggest change you’ll notice is that new extensions do not undergo a mandatory approval process before being available for download. As [...]

• March 5th, 2007

  49 important people and a porn model

  PC World’s list of the 50 most important people on the Web that came out today includes at #50 Tila Tequila, a model whose claim to fame is having almost 2 million MySpace friends. I mildly disagree with a few of the other choices like including Nick Denton/Gawker Media (45) without mentioning Jason or Weblogs [...]