Author Archives: Matt

Lessn Shortlinks WordPress Plugin

January 15, 2011 – 1:00 pm

I recently pur­chased the somad.es domain for use with my own URL short­ener. (Van­ity or own­ing my own URLs: you decide.) I decided to use Alan Hogan’s Lessn More, an improved fork of Shaun Inman’s Lessn. I then decided I wanted to inte­grate the short­link into my Word­Press install, but the exist­ing WP Lessn plugin […]

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FontFriend 2.5

January 11, 2011 – 7:51 pm

Font­Friend was designed and coded as dur­ing the twi­light of the pre-webfont era. In fact, it was abstracted out of some code I’d been using while devel­op­ing the CSS font stacks for my Word­Press theme The Eru­dite. I haven’t been using it much as of late, as I’ve been wear­ing my devel­oper hat more than […]

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Doing Things the WordPress Way

January 10, 2011 – 9:00 am

This past Fri­day marked the sec­ond Win­nipeg Word­Press meetup, and it was fan­tas­tic. It also marked my first time pre­sent­ing on a tech topic, and I thank every­one for let­ting me ram­ble for a while! Len from WPCanada has a great writeup of the event and has high hopes for the future. My pre­sen­ta­tion was […]

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Better Web Reading

January 3, 2011 – 12:23 pm

It’s damn hard to read web con­tent some­times. Too-small text, arti­cles split over mul­ti­ple pages, gra­tu­itous ban­ner ads, design that steals you atten­tion from the actual con­tent: these all con­spire to make read­ing on the web—especially long-form content—frustrating, painful and some­times down­right infu­ri­at­ing. 2010 saw two major approaches to this come to some degree of […]

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Testing IE9’s WOFF Support

December 28, 2010 – 10:00 am

IE9 offi­cially sup­ports the new WOFF for­mat for embed­ding web­fonts. And there was much rejoic­ing. But, the ques­tion that’s been nag­ging away at me has been: how do we as web devel­op­ers account for IE’s legacy EOT for­mat while giv­ing pref­er­en­tial treat­ment to the emerg­ing WOFF stan­dard? The short answer is: keep using Paul Irish’s […]

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