It’s that time: predictions for the year ahead and a look back at how we did in the year past. Several of last year’s predictions proved highly accurate, as many of the topics we devote attention to – social networking, startups, and increasingly mobile apps – evolved according to plan. Look...

A few theme designers — including yours truly — received an email from Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s boss, yesterday. It read (in full and unedited): Thanks for emailing me about the theme directory. The other day I noticed a ton of bad stuff had snuck in like lots of spammy SEO lin...

Confession time. I didnt grow up in Boulder. I didnt even grow up in Colorado. Me? I was born in Fort Collins and moved to California when I was less than 2 years old. I grew up in California in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose. (My family also spent a lot of time in Mountain View and Palo Alto...

Two years ago today, I took a leap, leaving the great folks at my previous job and joining the crew at Automattic. It’s been a great two years, during which I’ve had the chance to contribute to some pretty cool projects. Designing and re-designing WordPress.com, designing the WordPress f...

If you like WordPress, you will absolutely love the next version. Well… unless you liked any of the following: Administration navigation: say goodbye to the bar across the top, everything is down the side now. Oh, and there are icons. Neat! Seriously, this in itself takes a bit to get use...

I found this awesome site that compares market shares globally between browsers. As of 2008-10-01, these are the biggest browsers in the world: 46% - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 25% - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 19% - Mozilla Firefox, any version 7% - Safari, any version (most likely including o...

As Biosphere 2 is a self contained and airtight structure the air inside would expand and contract on warm and cold days which could cause the building to explode or implode! Two lungs were built to cope with this effect. One of them is pictured above. As the air in the building warmed up the black ...

bubel, new .com fora mod let it out, “there is no published rule…” to be expelled from the link farm. and contnues, We are not limiting your freedom by doing this. This is not censorship, as your blog is still available in every shape and form. no, tale-tellers, it is fucking censo...

article on MySpace in English WP has a nice subheading ‘Revenue model‘: MySpace operates solely on revenues generated by advertising as its user model possesses no paid-for features for the end user. Through its Web site and affiliated ad networks, MySpace is second only to Yahoo! in it ...

Looks like I "offended" Matt Mullenweg a bit too much.  Write a pair of posts describing how they have ignored a long list of splog reports and I now have my wordpress.com account suspended and my posts in the support forums edited without permission.  But in addition to that, I've been bl...