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 27th, 2010

  Making Add-on/User Communication Less Annoying

  When a new user downloads TwitterBar, there are a number of things I want them to know or questions I want to ask them. So what is the best method to communicate with an add-on user? The solution I’ve been using for a while is to pop up a dialog like this: There are several [...]

• 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 14th, 2009

  TwitterBar is a winner!

  (And so are you, for using it!) It was announced today that TwitterBar is one of the ten winners of the Mozilla Mobile Add-on Challenge: “After reviewing a multitude of submissions and much debate around many worthy contenders, the judges from the AMO and Mobile teams have chosen ten (10) of the best (innovative, useful, [...]

• December 4th, 2009

  TwitterBar for Google Chrome

  If you’re using Google Chrome, and you’re running the developer version that allows extensions to be installed, you can now install TwitterBar for Google Chrome. After you’ve installed it, just click on the Twitter icon in the toolbar bar, type your message, and press Enter to post your message to Twitter. (You’ll have to authorize [...]

• 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. [...]

• November 6th, 2008

  Four More Fennec Add-ons

  This is a Fennec fox. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four more add-ons: TwitterBar: Post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar AutoAuth: Automatically submits authentication dialogs YouTube Comment [...]