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Hi!, I’m Andrew Shell a Senior Web Engineer from Madison, WI.

I’m a software developer, writer, and community builder passionate about open-source technology and collaboration.

Welcome to my weblog! Here you’ll find my essays and quick updates. Check out my notes for technical documentation. You can also learn more about me and what I’m up to now.

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Google Reader API in WordPress Reader

Another exciting project from Radical Speed Month! Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle are working on the WordPress Reader feed aggregator. The first thing mentioned is something I'm very excited about. They are adding the Google Reader API so you can use third-party reader...

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Blurt Marketing Gone Wrong

I think the marketing for this new theme missed its mark. Dave thinks this is a new short-form blogging app when it's really just a new theme. I was able to post to it from WordLand with no issues. It's still a regular WordPress.com website. This is just a new theme built in a...

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My Take on WordPress Social (Blurt)

There is a new short-form blogging theme for WordPress.com called Blurt. I have a few opinions about this, so I figured I'd chime in. This is one of the hopefully many things we'll see come out of Radical Speed Month at Automattic, which only started a week ago. For those of...

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Updates to RSS Cloud Server

I've been making many gradual changes to the RSS Cloud server over the last few months. Things have stabilized enough that I feel comfortable sharing now. New Logger The first big change was a revamp of the log page for debugging. I found that the way it was before made it...

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