This post is the yang to @joen’s yin. He’s a heavy Android user switching to the iPhone and taking notes so I’ll do the opposite. (You should follow his blog) The last Android device I used as my main phone was the original Drooooooooid. And it was awesome. It had a physical keyboard, robot sounds,… Continue reading Switching to Android for a bit
Author: Michael Arestad
New child theme released: Flatfish
I’ve been using a customized version Flounder (epic theme) on my test site for some time. @melchoyce convinced me to child theme it so here it is in all its glory: It’s a child theme of Flounder so you need to have Flounder installed to use Flatfish. Enjoy!
Chaos – Year One
tl;dr Chaos is pretty amazing. Automattic is, too. Enjoy the chaos. Thanks for making my first year at Automattic amazing. Exactly one year ago today was my first day at Automattic. Starting that day, every day since has been a whirlwind of chaos. And I love it. When starting at Automattic, I was greeted with “Welcome to the… Continue reading Chaos – Year One
Living downtown
I find that I often get asked (mostly jokingly) by my friends to join them in the suburbs. After living in both, I much prefer living downtown. Here’s why: I’m a five to ten minute walk from a huge variety of restaurants, entertainment, grocery stores, parks, and a bunch of other stuff. This is pretty important… Continue reading Living downtown
Two weeks in Seattle
tl;dr Seattle is a pretty cool city. A few of us designers at Automattic (and a Happiness Engineer) went to An Event Apart Seattle. I ended up staying two weeks total and had an amazing time. Here are some photo highlights. P.S. We’re hiring.
Hanging after An Event Apart Seattle
th_s (THUNDERSCORES!)
This tweet from @zamoose really got me thinking about putting together a very sassy version of _s: Check out th_s Notable changes: Grunt awesomeness (Autoprefixer FTW) Stylesheet broken up into sections as laid out in the index Normalize instead of reset (easy to include both as a choice to the devs) Comboing editor and post… Continue reading th_s (THUNDERSCORES!)