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In almost every engineering firm, the most valuable knowledge isn't in any system. It's in one senior person's head, and they're close to retiring. Here's what to do before it's gone.

When Your Best Engineer Retires, Most of What They Know Walks Out With Them Every engineering firm has one. The person everyone walks over to when the problem is actually hard.

Really unacceptable in 2021.

Google Merchant Security Woes We were greeted the other morning by a forwarded Google email from a ecommerce merchant, with the subject “Suspension Warning of Your Merchant Center Account”. It stated they were in violation of not having an available landing pages for products.  We checked the system and all of the landing p...

Fixing a weird 404 issue in Magento2

Magento 2 Homepage 404 Recently on a new server move, we ran into a issue that almost drove us insane. The homepage of the site would NOT come up for whatever reason. To complicate matters, we did not realize that a customer had installed an SEO plugin that redirects 404 errors to their magento search engine. We fixed the...

Why not skip the middle step and create a mechanism that feeds the CSV file directly to the central system? That way you could create controls and error handling.

Microsoft Excel blunder: Developers blamed for loss of thousands of COVID-19 test results | ZDNet A huge file format mistake in Excel has hampered the UK's track-and-trace program.

Multipass is awesome!

Spin-up Fast Local WordPress Development Instances using Ubuntu Multipass We do a significant amount of development on WordPress sites and spinning up new instances for local development work has always been a chore. We are late to the party, but we’ve recently standardized on Ubuntu’s fantastic free system called Multipass . Essentially on our Windows 10 Pro workstat...

Fascinating

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.