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.

• July 25th, 2011

  What do people type in the address bar?

  An analysis of 7.5MM location bar inputs.

• September 13th, 2010

  My experience with developing a freemium browser add-on

  In which I discover that selling something that used to be free is hard.

• October 29th, 2008

  URL Fixer now compatible with Fennec (Mobile Firefox)

  Fennec is the codename for Mozilla’s work-in-progress mobile browser for phones and smaller computing devices, and since it supports extensions just like Firefox, I’ve started adding Fennec compatibility to the extensions I’ve written (when it makes sense). URL Fixer version 1.5 is fully Fennec-compatible. I think it’s even more useful in Fennec than in Firefox, [...]

• February 12th, 2008

  URL Fixer places in Extend Firefox 2

  The Extend Firefox 2 winners were announced today, and while I didn’t win one of the 3 awesome grand prizes, my submission, URL Fixer, rounded out the list of runner-ups (runners-up?). First place was taken by Minimap Sidebar Extension by Tony Farndon, which intends to make map/traffic management in the browser less painful; I have [...]

• 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 6th, 2007

  Firefox 3 to include URL Fixer?

  I just found out that Mozilla is considering including the functionality of my URL Fixer extension as part of the base Firefox 3 install. A great idea (if I do say so myself); however, they won’t be the first browser to do so.

• 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.

• 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 [...]