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.

• April 6th, 2011

  TwitterBar is now HootBar

  In which I sell out a little bit.

• February 24th, 2010

  TwitterBar 2.9 Available: Post to Multiple Twitter Accounts

  Version 2.9 of TwitterBar for Firefox was made available on Mozilla Add-ons today, and it has a very cool new feature: you can now use TwitterBar with more than one Twitter account. To post to a specific account, just type your message like this: I am posting to my other account. –@other_account –post If you [...]

• December 17th, 2009

  Extending the Web, not just the browser, with Twitter Filter

  One of the things that annoys me about Twitter is the constant “check-ins” from location apps like foursquare and Gowalla. Since I don’t use these apps, I don’t especially care that you’re at the Starbucks in Dallas or that you’re the mayor of your bus stop. To solve this problem, I wrote a browser add-on [...]

• June 11th, 2009

  TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets

  TwitterBar 2.4 was released this morning, and the main change is that it now integrates the URL shortening service tweak.tk. The URLs that .tk generates are the shortest you can get, weighing in at 15 characters; TwitterBar’s previous URL shortener, is.gd, generated 18-character URLs. What does this mean? Well, now when you post a URL [...]

• March 23rd, 2009

  TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs

  Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/ before being sent to Twitter. is.gd offers the shortest URLs around, so you have more room in your tweet for your words. [...]

• March 19th, 2009

  Retweeting in Python

  My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind [...]

• June 6th, 2008

  Amazon to compete with Twitter?

  Noticed this morning that Amazon.com added a feature that puts them squarely in competition with Twitter: This is bad news for Twitter. Up until now, they’ve been the market leader in the “Popular websites that are unavailable” category, but with Amazon.com as competition, they’ll have a hard time keeping that position.

• April 1st, 2008

  Twitter-splosion

  So my Twitter address gets posted in Jason’s UStream chat, and all of a sudden my inbox explodes: Names removed to protect the innocent.