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One Red Flag referenced here that I’ve seen in many districts is trading sponsorship for access. A company will sponsor an event put on by a public orgs sister non-profit. The non-…

I’m part of the WordPress Accessibility team and I’m still working on accessibility today.

This article largely came out of frustration with my peers investing lots of energy in developing LLM accessibility review. I spent a year doing it myself. Now I'm done. (Props to …

LLM-generated descriptions miss lots of context. For instance, depending on the site and content, we might mention people's races or fashion. Other times we don't.

everyone should be taking this stuff seriously. EU's accessibility act is set to be implemented in 2025 and the US congress also has a bill in the works that mandates greater acces…

Family and friends want to invest in my company during a "love money" round. The family and friends are non-accredited investors under SEC rules. Can they still invest money with u…

We're pre-revenue. Our salaries would be covered by a few interested investors. Current thinking: Unless we get a strategic benefit from taking money from the investor, we shouldn'…

A friend said "no salary" startups succeed less than startups where founders take salary. I can't find any info to confirm / deny this. My case: My company has no revenue yet. I ha…

Create sustainable jobs people love to do.

Ya. Totally. The good manager is my Plan B if I don't get an offer I want. We have loyal clients that most companies are hot for + a great workflow, so hopefully that translates in…

Super solid. We have a workflow that allows devs or designers with under 3 yrs of experience to develop sites that usually require pros with > 5 yrs. That means lower overhead of u…

Amazing. Thank you.

cool. how does a business broker value a company? i default to transparency, so would just hack it myself if possible.

$325k '20 income w/ $80k profit, $222k '19 income w/ $66k profit ... solid buildout workflow (2 wks buildout for most sites). I'm focusing on a product and now selling my Web Dev s…

1. Popularity (40% of the internet use it) 2. It's not Drupal (Drupal 7 to 8 PTSD) 3. I love Open Source 4. It's familiar (10+ yrs WP development) 5. The Block Editor

“19 female and 1 male university students” participant is a laughable small sample group. How can any insight be drawn from that?

In my experience, the best policy is just to ask engineers where they are spinning their wheels. Engineers know best where to automate. Relying on top down automation decisions ins…

Where are these numbers coming from? The publication only cites itself as a source.

A few months ago, I had to build themes for 20+ sites. The sites varied in features (some had slideshows, some had blogs, ..) I wanted to build the projects from boilerplate code t…

Blake is indeed great summer reading - a retreat from the rational mind. In that vein, my two summer picks are A.R. Ammons' "Still" and the fragments of Friedrich Holderlin transla…