This is our fourth threat intelligence post. When appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We initially thought about doing this weekly, but after a few weeks of it realised it would just become a small list of links, which has some value, but going...

   Dependabot allows you to specify a cooldown for new dependencies, what this means is if a new dependency is less than the cooldown period, say, 7 days, then it won’t make it into your codebase. This is an excellent way to mitigate supply chain attacks and other whoops moments with dependencies....

   This is our third threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We didn’t have one last week because there was nothing of major importance. This issue will be covering; Ruby, and some wider points. Ruby Last week, a...

   We now help with two projects (Irish Pipes and Turas) that are focused on and written with Irish (Gaeilge), as part of this work we do some SEO reporting for the clients. By the way, if you have an Irish language project and need some tech folk to help with it, get in touch One of the issues with...

   Inbox zero has fallen out of fashion as a buzzword, but used to be bandied about as the height of productivity. I’ve never believed that, however, my brain does work much better when my various inboxes are empty and my actions are in a dedicated actions list. This article touches on some of the...

   This is our second threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. What we cover will depend on what has been happening the previous week, this week, for example, is a much shorter update. Ruby Some of the folk that...

   This is our first threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We will be covering; Ruby, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku, Render, Cloudflare, and Github, as well as wider geo-political points. Ruby The Ruby community...

   I’ve been interested in SEO for a long time, I’ve always considered it a good proxy for some of the other parts of web work folk should be doing but often have a hard time getting buy-in for. When I approach SEO, depending on the hat I’m wearing for my clients I will either approach it from a...

   I recently polled three different communities (LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit) to see if technical folk felt more wary, less wary, or the same about software dependencies in the advent of developers using AI with varying degrees of oversight. 81.63% of people voted that they are more wary. This was...

   A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. - Going Postal, Chapter 4 prologue In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, The Clacks is a network of Semaphore Towers that operate in a similar fashion to telegraph. Clacks because of the clicking sound the system makes as signals send. In Going...