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 Engineer, I’ll be working with the brand-new Custom Design team to provide some awesome tools for customizing your WordPress.com theme […]
Author Archives: Matt
Learning Colemak
January 16, 2012 – 12:24 pm
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 that I wanted to print and look at every day. I found a Mac Keyboard Vector with a CC license and […]
Intro to Webfonts Presentation
January 12, 2012 – 9:54 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 the links from the last slide in clickable form: http://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating-systems/ http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting http://www.fontslive.com/info/typography/web-font-quality.aspx http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesans/thesans-office/features/ http://cl.ly/9PBw http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/ https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader/ http://somadesign.ca/projects/fontfriend/
WordPress.org Theme Review Process is Broken
December 14, 2011 – 11:51 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 poorly organized, severely under-powered, or both. The Erudite 3.0 has been in review for 3 months, 3.0.2 since Sept 28. The review ticket was assigned […]
WordPress Portfolio Presentation
August 25, 2011 – 12:19 am
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, and doubly grateful that so many people came out on a hot summer night to hear me ramble about nerdy WordPress things. Firstly, […]