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Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton, a senior developer, documents his experience of using the internet with nothing but a keyboard. Many designers and developers are taught to make sure their work is accessible through the keyboard and nothing else, so…

The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS, as everyone should. James Donohue, a software engineer working with a team on the transition, briefly explains the problems that needed to be addressed and why security is so important to journalism: "In a…

4.9.7 Security Release

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
WordPress 4.9.7 is a security release that fixes 17 bugs in WordPress, as announced by Aaron Campbell. The release caused some confusion from a naming perspective, as blog posts had been written scheduling 4.9.7, which are now bumped to 4.9.8…

Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution for image optimization and on-the-fly thumbnail generation. It is powered by Thumbor and integrated with Pagely’s hosting stack using a combination of custom NGINX rules and an MU plugin.

Over at the Easy Digital Downloads…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Over at the Easy Digital Downloads blog, Mandy Jones explains how to create customer confidence for digital products in an era of hackers, fraud, and online theft. Mandy stresses how transparency means honesty and stressing how your customers' information is readily…

On June 21st the US Supreme…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
On June 21st the US Supreme Court has ruled that online sellers must collect state sales taxes on consumer purchases, which will effect every business that sells on the web in the United States. This will likely impact small businesses…

Notes from WordCamp Europe, 2018

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David Bisset
Design
Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries)…

Matt on Gutenberg at WordCamp Europe

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David Bisset
SecurityWordPress News
The sixth WordCamp Europe is happening now on June 15-16 (it was preceded by Contributor Day on the 14th) in Belgrade, Serbia. As you would expect from a large WordCamp, the lineup is full of great talks given by a diverse group of…

Fred Meyer writes that although WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Fred Meyer writes that although WordPress is a great tool "most small business website owners are not having wonderful experiences with it." This is due to a wide range of problems, like a lack of developer ethics, unclear communication, slow…

If you’re a developer, then i…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
If you're a developer, then i highly recommend reading this "Cult of the Complex" post from Jeffrey Zeldman on A List Apart. Zeldman covers the trend in the tech industry to make things (such as front end development) far more…

By now I’m sure you’ve all…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
By now I'm sure you've all heard of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. This is a hugely successful exit for GitHub, and another interesting pickup for Microsoft. Unfortunately I can't find the tweet anymore, but I…

Delicious Brains has decided to shut…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Delicious Brains has decided to shut down Mergebot, after three years of working on it. It was an ambitious project from the start, but they decided that it didn't meet their standards. Mergebot is by far the most ambitious product…
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