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Goodbye Soma, Hello Automattic 26 Apr 2012 | 03:55 am
I’m excited (and maybe a touch sad) to announce that I’m shuttering Soma Design to join the great, growing team at Automattic to help build the best publishing platform on the planet. As a Theme Engin...
Learning Colemak 17 Jan 2012 | 08:24 am
After seeing that Ian’s learning Colemak, I decided to go for it too. Colemak is easier to switch to than Dvorak, and possibly even more efficient to boot. However, I couldn’t find a keyboard layout ...
Intro to Webfonts Presentation 13 Jan 2012 | 05:54 am
I talked about webfonts at the January edition of the Winnipeg WordPress meetup. The slides are not that interesting, particularly out of the context of the presentation, but here you go: And, here’s...
WordPress.org Theme Review Process is Broken 15 Dec 2011 | 07:51 am
Update: The Erudite 3.0.2 is now live on WordPress.org. I’ve already criticized the WordPress.org Theme Review process when it first launched. Things seemed to be improving, but either the team is po...
WordPress Portfolio Presentation 25 Aug 2011 | 05:19 pm
As promised, here’s the follow-up information on my Power Your Portfolio With WordPress presentation that I gave at New Media Manitoba yesterday. I’m grateful that they gave me a chance to present, an...
Improve Windows Type Rendering With ttfautohint 23 Aug 2011 | 04:48 am
In a stroke of genius, Werner Lemberg has started the ttfautohint project, which repurposes FreeType’s autohinting system to automatically hint TrueType fonts for improved Windows rendering. While no ...
Better Google Fonts 19 Jul 2011 | 02:46 pm
Google Web Fonts is an awesome source of free, open source fonts hooked up to a world-class CDN. It’s also, sadly, filled with one-off novelty fonts vying for the title of “the new Comic Sans.” I qui...
Environment Canada Mobile 14 Jun 2011 | 02:56 am
The state of mobile weather apps isn’t awesome. I find that it’s even worse in Canada, where weather data is sourced through non-Canadian providers such as Yahoo (iOS’s built-in weather app) or AccuWe...
FontFriend 3.2 Released: Now With More Google 7 Jun 2011 | 03:28 pm
When I released FontFriend 3.1, I mentioned that Google Web Fonts didn’t have a proper API, making things difficult. They still don’t have a public API, but on Thursday I was given “trusted tester” ac...
Some Cranky WordPress Plugins 7 Jun 2011 | 03:26 am
It looks like I may carve out a niche for cranky WordPress plugins. This could either be seen as a personality flaw or as a perfect fit within open-source culture. In either case, WordPress makes it e...
