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.

• March 31st, 2011

  Announcing Typo.js: Client-side JavaScript Spellchecking

  In which I spend lots of time on something that will eventually be made obsolete by a Chrome extension API.

• March 18th, 2011

  YouTube Comment Snob is now Comment Snob

  In which I write a Brita filter for the Web.

• June 11th, 2010

  YouTube Comment Snob in the news

  YouTube Comment Snob got some press from the BBC’s Webscape segment; the coverage starts around the three-minute mark, right after a very complimentary bit on Jay Meattle’s Shareaholic.

• 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 [...]

• April 26th, 2008

  YouTube Comment Snob updated

  YouTube Comment Snob is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that allows you to filter YouTube comments based on spelling, capitalization, and punctuation usage. I’ve updated YouTube Comment Snob to work with YouTube’s latest redesign, as well as to add compatibility for Firefox 3. It’s available for download from the Mozilla Add-ons sandbox until [...]

• August 28th, 2007

  Filter YouTube comments by spelling mistakes

  I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has noticed that the discussion threads at YouTube typically contain a low percentage of quality comments. Earlier this week, I remarked to a co-worker that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to be able to filter the comments based on the number of spelling mistakes made [...]