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If you’re a developer, then i…

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Are you dealing with bloated code…

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Dan Knauss
Are you dealing with bloated code and overdue for some refactoring? Head over to Mario Peshev's recent post, "How to Identify, Debug, and Improve Messed Up WordPress Code." Mario explains why bloated code might lead to security problems and headaches while explaining…

SiteLock has been acquired by private equity firm ABRY Partners

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Brian Krogsgard
SiteLock has been acquired by a private equity firm in for an undisclosed amount. Following the Sucuri acquisition by GoDaddy, now the two most prominent website security businesses in the space have been gobbled up. SiteLock has more than twelve…

John Maeda has released his 2018…

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Brian Krogsgard
John Maeda has released his 2018 Design in Tech report. This is always an interesting case study on the broad design world, and it's curated by Automattic's chief designer. I was also intrigued by a recent tweet from John highlighting…

Ethics in design has always been…

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Brian Krogsgard
Ethics in design has always been an important topic in technical fields, but lately it's been in the public eye too. Morten Rand-Hendriksen's recent article, Using Ethics In Web Design is an important contribution to a renewed discussion of  this topic among…

WordSesh online conference is back, on July 25th

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Brian Krogsgard
Brian Richards has taken over WordSesh from Scott Basgaard, and is hosting the online event on July 25th. It's being revised from 24 hours to 12 hours, which should be a plenty big window for people around the world to…

WordPress minor update blocks future minor updates

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.9.3 introduced a bug that causes a fatal error during automatic update attempts — effectively preventing future minor updates triggered by WordPress.org’s update system. The only way to fix it is to either manually upgrade or hosts to take…

Liquid Web has acquired iThemes

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Brian Krogsgard
Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.
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