Shane Tomlinson

I take no credit for compiling this list, rather the hard work was done by a fellow Auziro. The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/Tour Yellowstone National

On Tuesday morning, while packing for work, I sat in the hallway and cried. I was angry, I was frustrated, and I felt helpless. Charlotte saw my face and asked whether I was OK. I tried to explain how the constant noise from airplanes

Had Mom still been alive, today would have been her 60th birthday. No single person has had a greater influence on me. While growing up, she was my role model, my hero. Mom taught me a million things, just by being Mom. Mom had

We still have to live! My Dad said this to me long ago while arguing about the costs of going to an out of state university. It took 20 years and 2 kids to understand what he meant. Everybody deserves to be just a

Unlike momentum as described by Newtonian mechanics, no external force is needed to stop human momentum. Today is day 6. I have already missed one day and could have easily skipped tonight. Guilt is the primary reason I am writing now. The training plan

When I asked my wife what tonight's subject should be, she immediately responded "My wife is awesome." So here we go. Two weeks ago we spent a week in the Alps. As luck would have it, we had an entire 16 person

7 consecutive days of posts seems like such a modest goal, and yet, I've already missed a day. So it goes. I have momentum on my side now, 2 days in a row. The goal came about to prove a little something to myself.

Tired of London, tired of life. Samuel Johnson I make no secret of my love/hate relationship with London. Six years after moving here I am still amazed at just how much goes on, I still discover new areas to go and roads to

If you can't be nice, at least don't be a dick. Every once in a while I hear someone say "if you can't be nice, don't be a dick." This phrase is usually muttered with the intent of setting a minimum level

I'm trying an experiment for a week, just to see how this goes. A daily post, about anything. Writing daily takes effort, some concentration, and a little bit of discipline. Since having kids, I've gotten out of the habit; both my concentration and writing

I have been trying to figure out how to organize my thoughts after a conversation I had with Ryan Kelly today. They are still unorganized, my apologies. Ryan asked me a couple of months ago how we, as Mozilla, could do leave our mark

Thanks to Michael Yunat from http://getvoip.com, the Persona WordPress plugin now supports Ukrainian! The update was released as v0.50. If your site already has the plugin installed, a notice to update will appear automatically. If you have not tried the plugin,

This is an excerpt from an email I wrote to my colleagues at Mozilla a couple of weeks back. Aside from the occasional gripe about how awful it was to land a particular patch, I rarely hear anyone talk about code review. What processes

The task seems simple. Programmatically focus an input element and test whether the element received focus. Using jQuery, both tasks are straight forward: // focus the element $('input[autofocus]').focus(); // check the element for focus assert.isTrue($('input[autofocus]').is(':focus')); Everything

I ran into an l10n gotcha that consumed a couple of hours of my afternoon, hopefully this saves somebody a few minutes of trouble in the future. Tools like po2json and grunt-po2json make it easy to convert .po files to .json files, but the

Today I released v0.49 of the Persona Wordpress plugin. This release fixes an issue with Strict Standards warnings on the admin page. Thank you Jason D. Moss for the fix!

Ever wish you could use Array functions on a NodeList returned by element.querySelectorAll or element.childNodes? It's surprisingly easy! A NodeList is an Array-Like object that contains a .length field, but lacks useful functions like .forEach and .map that make working with Arrays

The question comes from the momentous changes the past six months have brought. My first child is on the way. At work, my role has shifted from Persona onto Firefox Accounts. I am taking on new responsibilities and am facing many unknowns. I'm not

Today I released v0.46 of the Persona Wordpress plugin. This release has several noteworthy updates. Select a background color using the Wordpress color picker Selecting a background color is far simpler thanks to Janw-Oostendorp. Background colors are now selected using the WordPress color