Customizing WordPress 2.5′s Admin Panel
While I was poking around in a pre-release version of WordPress 2.5 (which has been slightly delayed for actual release), I found out that the Admin panel (everything under /wp-admin/) is now pretty...
View Article2 New Projects
I forgot to mention that I have 2 relatively new projects launched in the Projects section of this site: TwitterProxy: Which allows you to do some cool filtering on your Twitter status feed (and then...
View ArticleFeedGrowler – get Growl notifications from your feeds
On a whim, I whipped up this quick project today. Basically it just gives you a Growl notification when a feed you’re monitoring gets a new post (or technically, when the most recent post in the feed...
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FeedGrowler update: Custom icons
I’ve just updated the code for FeedGrowler so that it supports custom icons for each feed that you are monitoring. All you need to do is include the full path to an icon/image file as the second...
View ArticleThe All-New LiveJournal Importer for WordPress
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a new importer for people who use LiveJournal, but would like to switch over to WordPress. With LiveJournal laying off a bunch of employees, it seemed...
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Idea: Twitter API Layer for WordPress
Automattic built the wonderful Prologue theme for WordPress which turns it into a private Twitter. Coming soon is Prologue Projects, a powerful yet lightweight project-management/monitoring version of...
View ArticleKRead: a simple feed reader for the Kindle 2
It’s Saturday, and I just got a Kindle 2 this week. I’ve been thinking it’d be neat to be able to read feeds on the Kindle (since it has a built in Web Browser and internet connection), so I whipped up...
View ArticlemicroformatsDevCamp
Over the weekend, I attended microformatsDevCamp here in San Francisco. It was a chance for a bunch of people who are interested in microformats to get together and hack on some projects that used...
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Slinky, a PHP class for URL shortening/lengthening
A few weeks ago, I tweeted that I was writing a PHP library for shortening/lengthening URLs using some of the common/popular services. I said it was going to be called Slinky, and that it’d support a...
View ArticleNew Project: ListML
If you’re anything like me, you write a lot of lists. I use lists for pretty much everything — note taking, planning my day, managing projects, shopping, organization, etc etc etc. I have lists of...
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Gravatar Wall
If you’ve ever posted a comment on this website, your face should appear on my new Gravatar Wall. I’m going to release this as a simple WordPress plugin soon
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Jetpack
For the past few months, my team at Automattic (Team Social FTW!) has been working on a super-secret project. Today, almost perfectly synchronized with the NASA space shuttle landing (total fluke, but...
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Announcing: SidewalkScribbl.es
I’ve launched a new website that you might like to check out: SidewalkScribbl.es It feels like every time I walk around in San Francisco (and other places), I see all this cool artwork, quotes,...
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WordPress Authentication Framework: Keyring
Quite a while ago (like, in at least 2009), I started thinking about regaining control of all the content I was producing online. I was posting photos to Flickr, saving bookmarks to Delicious. I...
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Welcome to the new server
I’ve finally gotten around to moving this site (along with all my other random sites) onto a single server. It’s all now hosted at Media Temple, on a 512MB (dv). We’ll see how that goes. I’ve got a...
View ArticleMoving Jetpack Sharing Buttons
I’m working on a new WordPress theme (for this site, and it’ll be released for download once complete). The theme is deeply integrated with Jetpack, and one of the things I wanted to do was have the...
View ArticleWhere is Your Digital Hub/Home?
I’ve been using WordPress to power my own website for a while now, and working with it in some way or another for even longer. Over the years, I’ve developed the belief that it’s a pretty perfect...
View ArticleLog into WordPress using your Email Address
I’ve made a bunch of updates to WP Email Login (local project page) recently, and it’s still rocking along. If you’d prefer to log into your WordPress install using the email address associated with...
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TimesOpen Hack Day/Readtrack
On Saturday, I attended the 2012 New Times/TimesOpen Hack Day. It was a long day, but I had a lot of fun. I sat in on an intro session to Arduino which was pretty cool, and also a session on the...
View ArticleKeyring Documentation
I’ve started putting together a Developer’s Guide to working with Keyring in your WordPress plugins and themes. Check it out. If you haven’t seen Keyring yet, then check it out at the WordPress.org...
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