Author Archives: Matt

That Was Not OK

The Idea Have you ever found your­self in a social set­ting where some­one’s inad­e­quate social skills cause con­ster­na­tion to every­one around them? Of course you have. Have you ever wished there was a way to dis­creet­ly tell them that their behav­iour is not OK? Now you can. That Was Not OK is here to help. Print […]

The Erudite 2.0 Released

I’ve released v2.0 of The Eru­dite, which has 2 oft-request­ed fea­tures in it: A dark theme option An option to use cat­e­gories instead of pages for the top menu I fig­ured throw­ing in a whole new col­or scheme jus­ti­fied a 2.0 des­ig­na­tion. Although I still like the orig­i­nal col­or scheme the best, the new one has its […]

That Delicious @font-face

As of a cou­ple of min­utes ago, this site has rel­e­gat­ed the ven­er­a­ble sIFR to the dust­bin of his­to­ry, opt­ing instead for the bright future of true cus­tom fonts using the @font-face CSS dec­la­ra­tion that has been around since 1998. Why it took so long for cus­tom web fonts to become an in-brows­er real­i­ty is […]

The Erudite 1.4 Released

I’ve bumped The Eru­dite to ver­sion 1.4 today. This release adds the abil­i­ty to turn off the dynam­ic head­er and foot­er, and adds a few small typo­graph­ic fix­es sur­round­ing the dis­play of nest­ed lists. You can down­load this release over at the project page, or from the WP.org themes direc­to­ry when­ev­er they update it.

FontFriend 1.0 Released

I haven’t giv­en Font­Friend much atten­tion since it was released, but I put­tered around with it a bit over the week­end and fig­ured that it deserves a prop­er 1.0 release now. If you’re already using the book­marklet, you’re run­ning the lat­est and great­est auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Fea­tures added in 1.0 include: a field for a cus­tom font […]