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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.

• January 29th, 2007

  Social Traffic Statistics

  Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by the Social Traffic Monitor plugin. This is the chart that the [...]

• January 26th, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

  After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social news/bookmarking source, fixed a few bugs with logging non-social-referring sites, and [...]

• January 26th, 2007

  Sign of success

  Just got this automated e-mail: The domain chrisfinke.com has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit for January. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Digg! I better lay low for a while… :-)

• January 25th, 2007

  Shortcuts are people too

  While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: [...] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing in one word or a short phrase. Anyway, one of my [...]

• January 25th, 2007

  Hackers and Downloaders

  Welcome, readers of Lifehacker and Download Squad. I hope you find URL Fixer as useful as I do. Feel free to check out my other extension and software projects, and if you find any of it interesting, go ahead and subscribe to my feed. I typically write about Firefox extensions, my job at Netscape, and [...]

• January 25th, 2007

  URL Fixer gets a little British flavour

  URL Fixer will now correct “.ku” to “.uk”, but I’ve made no decision on colour, metre, or encyclopaedia. Cheerio!

• January 22nd, 2007

  Update to URL Fixer (1.2.12)

  I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.12. In addition to including a Catalan translation, there are two main changes to the correction algorithm: 1. “;//” will now be corrected to “://” (http;// => http://). 2. All commas and other semicolons will be changed to dots (www,google;co,uk => www.google.co.uk). You can install or upgrade URL Fixer [...]

• January 15th, 2007

  Minor update to URL Fixer

  I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.11. A bug was causing the Chinese translation to be displayed for English-speaking users, so if you were seeing “?? (R)” or Chinese characters instead of “Confirm corrections” in the context menu for the URL bar, go ahead and upgrade. (You can always download the newest version of URL [...]