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Cloudflare has introduced a new ‘privacy-focused’…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Cloudflare has introduced a new 'privacy-focused' DNS service called 1.1.1.1 that is also supposed to speed up web browsing. Check out this post that compares the performance of DNS Resolvers, including CloudFlare, Google, Quad9, and OpenDNS. CloudFlare came in first at 72% of…

I appreciated this post from Brian Gardner…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

I appreciated this post from Brian Gardner where he says being different is better than just being "better." Finding your niche in the market and differentiating yourself can be (and usually is) the bigger win compared to being better than the…

Over at WeGlot, they’ve put together…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Business

Over at WeGlot, they've put together a detailed summary of how they've scaled their support capacity with HelpScout to handle 500 customer emails a week and non-stop live chat. That means 70+ conversations a day and a commitment to never shut…

Last but not least, congratulations are…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Last but not least, congratulations are in order for Yoast who recently became a WordPress VIP technical partner.

SiteLock has been acquired by private equity firm ABRY Partners

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Security

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…

All about you(r privacy) — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

April 16, 2018

DraftPlanet

In this episode, the two Brians discuss the current conversations and controversy surrounding data collection and visitor privacy on the web.

Designing the news — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

April 9, 2018

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss a variety of news topics spanning design, development, and business.

As usual, we start off with…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

As usual, we start off with a few Gutenberg updates. Gutenberg 2.5 was officially released on March 29th, with a heavy focus on new and improved tools to extend and interact with the editor. On the user side, there are updates to…

I mentioned in a recent podcast…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

I mentioned in a recent podcast that I wasn't aware of a plugin to offer a leaky paywall style feature for publishers, and then learned that not only does a quite comprehensive one exist, but that it's made by a…

John Maeda has released his 2018…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Design

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…

Google is rolling out mobile-first indexing.…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Google is rolling out mobile-first indexing. Although Google will still have one single index for serving search results, mobile-first means that Google will begin to use mobile versions of pages for indexing and ranking. Mobile-first indexing is about how Google…

Beka Rice writes about cart abandonment –…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Beka Rice writes about cart abandonment – what it is and how you can to minimize it, to an extent. This is important advice for anyone building eCommerce stores for clients, or if you're running one yourself.

Ethics in design has always been…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Design

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…

If you use Chrome development tools,…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

If you use Chrome development tools, then this list of tips and tricks might be handy.

Some nice tips and reminders, “for…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Some nice tips and reminders, "for fellow and future humans of the web," from Rachel Cherry.

Site Palette is a free Chrome…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Site Palette is a free Chrome extension that generates palettes based on a webpage colors. A nice potential tool for designers or for anyone who enjoys a good color palette from one of their favorite sites.