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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.

• March 18th, 2011

  YouTube Comment Snob is now Comment Snob

  In which I write a Brita filter for the Web.

• June 20th, 2007

  Feed Statistics: Now with fewer bots!

  I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress again, this time to stop it from counting bots as users. If you’ve been running the plugin already, it will take a few days for the bots already counted as users to filter out. So your subscriber count may drop a little, but on the plus side, [...]

• May 4th, 2007

  Video Tutorial: The JavaScript Programming Language

  Yahoo!’s video of Douglas Crockford’s The JavaScript Programming Language lecture is definitely the best overview of JavaScript that I’ve ever seen. (The first part is embedded below, and the remaining 3 parts are linked after that.) I saw it a while back, but it’s been getting a fair amount of press in the social media [...]

• February 15th, 2007

  Since Digg apparently invented the idea of voting for things…

  Iraq copies Digg, implements voting. Although in Iraq, unlike on Digg, each person’s vote is equal.