Blog

Note: I've been blogging off and on at mitcho.com since 2007. Entries ran the gamut, from bad jokes to reflections on travel, as well as my professional posts while an employee at Mozilla. In 2014, I took the opportunity to prune the archive. There wasn't much that I was actively embarrassed by, but the pruning was done to make the archive a bit more of a coherent history of my projects, and to make it a more inviting place for myself where I might write again.

Nov 19, 2016
Stamping PDFs in bulk
Oct 1, 2016
Generating individual figure images in LaTeX
Feb 7, 2015
On floating, raising, and being
Jul 29, 2013
Stanley Kubrick on linguistic fieldwork
Jun 8, 2011
The new Apple campus and the Pentagon compared
Mar 22, 2011
Checking mochitest test coverage
Oct 29, 2010
Happy Halloween!
Jun 2, 2010
Every website has a purpose
Apr 26, 2010
Better Linguist List RSS Feeds
Apr 14, 2010
Beginning development with Jetpack SDK 0.2
Mar 20, 2010
Spring is for Speaking: JSConf, WordCamp SF, IACL
Mar 13, 2010
Jetpacking in Boston
Feb 21, 2010
Jetpack Ambassadors in MV
Feb 1, 2010
After the Deadline for Firefox
Jan 29, 2010
WordCamp Boston 2010
Dec 30, 2009
Disgusting Word-formatted HTML and how to fix it
Dec 19, 2009
Mashing up the browser in Maine
Dec 13, 2009
My friend Evan bought an iPhone
Nov 1, 2009
The Antisymmetrizer
Sep 29, 2009
Extending WordPress talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup
Sep 21, 2009
Living in the Stata Center
Sep 16, 2009
91 Hours in Japan
Sep 6, 2009
Mozilla By The Numbers
Sep 4, 2009
The ~~Aliens~~ Aliases Have Landed
Aug 23, 2009
Exploring Command Chaining in Ubiquity: Part 2
Aug 20, 2009
The Ubiquity Persistence Project: exploring a persistent Ubiquity in the toolbar
Aug 19, 2009
Exploring Command Chaining in Ubiquity: Part 1
Aug 13, 2009
Performance vs Responsiveness —or— How I Made the Parser Twice As Fast in One Day
Aug 11, 2009
Let’s talk about how cool our localizers are
Aug 6, 2009
HookPress: Webhooks for WordPress
Aug 1, 2009
Nountype Quirks: Day 3: Geo Day
Jul 30, 2009
Nountype Quirks: Day 2
Jul 29, 2009
Nountype Quirks: Day 1
Jul 29, 2009
Judging Noun Types
Jul 24, 2009
Report from SIGIR Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World
Jul 21, 2009
Converting your Ubiquity command to Ubiquity 0.5
Jul 13, 2009
A Visual Guide to Community Command Localization
Jul 10, 2009
日本語サポートを含む Ubiquity 0.5 リリース
Jul 9, 2009
Ubiquity Localization: What’s New, What’s Next
Jul 4, 2009
Presenting in Boston at SIGIR Workshop
Jul 2, 2009
Ubiquity 0.5 日本語紹介ビデオ
Jun 25, 2009
Localizing Commands for Ubiquity 0.5
Jun 19, 2009
The Ubiquity Favicon: a very important question
Jun 14, 2009
Matt Mullenweg recommends YARPP on Tekzilla!
Jun 12, 2009
Ubiquity Localization Update
Jun 10, 2009
Ubiquity presentation at Tokyo 2.0
Jun 5, 2009
Changes to Ubiquity Parser 2 and the Playpen
Jun 4, 2009
Lecture at ITSP - 先端ITスペシャリスト育成プログラムにて講義
Jun 1, 2009
Ubiquity interview in Chinese
Jun 1, 2009
Report from Mozilla Party JP 10!
May 28, 2009
Contribute to Ubiquity! No Coding Required!
May 25, 2009
Localizing Ubiquity: commands and nountypes
May 20, 2009
Big Issues and Small Issues with Parser 2
May 18, 2009
Ubiquity in Italian!
May 18, 2009
Notes from BarCamp Tokyo 2009
May 13, 2009
Inside the Argument
May 12, 2009
Solving Another Romantic Problem: Weak Pronouns
May 11, 2009
Solving a Romantic Problem: Portmanteau’ed Prepositions
May 6, 2009
In Case of Case…
May 1, 2009
Foxkeh Strikes Again!
May 1, 2009
Dates in the Month of May that Are of Interest to Linguists
Apr 29, 2009
Command Chaining with Oni?
Apr 29, 2009
Adding Your Language to Ubiquity Parser 2
Apr 24, 2009
Scoring for Optimization
Apr 24, 2009
A Demonstration of Ubiquity Parser 2
Apr 15, 2009
Attachment Ambiguity—or—when is the gyudon cheap?
Apr 9, 2009
Rolling out the Roles
Apr 7, 2009
Scoring and Ranking Suggestions
Apr 1, 2009
Ubiquity Commands by The Numbers
Apr 1, 2009
Foxkeh demos Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation
Mar 30, 2009
Talking Ubiquity in Japan: 拡張機能勉強会にて発表
Mar 27, 2009
This week on Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation
Mar 25, 2009
Where’s The Verb?
Mar 25, 2009
The Hit List: Better Software Through Less UI
Mar 24, 2009
Automating the Linguist’s Job
Mar 23, 2009
Ubiquity i18n: questions to ask
Mar 18, 2009
Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation Demo
Mar 14, 2009
User-Aided Disambiguation: a demo
Mar 9, 2009
Ubiquity in Italian
Mar 5, 2009
Ubiquity in Portuguese
Mar 1, 2009
YARPP SQL fix
Mar 1, 2009
Unnatural by design
Feb 26, 2009
Localizing Ubiquity: an open letter to linguists
Feb 24, 2009
Writing commands with semantic roles
Feb 23, 2009
Friendlier command feed subscription
Feb 20, 2009
Ubiquity in Firefox: Focus on Japanese
Feb 18, 2009
Three ways to argue over arguments
Feb 18, 2009
Contribute: how your language identifies its arguments
Feb 16, 2009
How natural should a natural interface be?
Feb 10, 2009
Listening
Jan 14, 2009
Using Templates with YARPP 3
Jan 3, 2009
新年快樂!
Dec 10, 2008
This is what a release looks like
Dec 9, 2008
The Mori no Ike Songbook 1996
Nov 29, 2008
External orders in WordPress queries
Oct 24, 2008
Bald Moves
Sep 18, 2008
回収 vs. 収集 and Better Word Meanings Through Usage
Aug 18, 2008
My Palace Mansion
Jul 13, 2008
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0
Jun 20, 2008
I’m in the newspaper!
Jun 1, 2008
The Most Beautiful Word
May 17, 2008
Testing Google’s Language Detection
May 13, 2008
Linguistics in 嘉義
Apr 2, 2008
Night market find: 抓抓餅
Mar 24, 2008
Podcast Pick: The Bugle, the Audio Newspaper for a Visual World
Mar 24, 2008
Jerry Sadock’s Automodular Grammar on iTunes
Mar 22, 2008
Taipei find: a dictionary of Chinese-Japanese false cognates
Jan 2, 2008
Obama for Taiwan 2008
Jan 1, 2008
新年明けまして御めでとうございます！
Dec 29, 2007
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Dec 29, 2007
Great news! You can opt-out from Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net
Oct 12, 2007
A Match Made in Heaven