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Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024


LISTING COMPOSER DEPENDENCIES IN CSV FORMAT

We work with larger public sector organisations who often require lists of third
party dependencies we use on projects. I took at look at the different ways you
can list all Composer dependencies in a PHP project.

This command lists all PHP dependencies in a project:

composer show 

However, this displays as text. The compliance document I’m currently filling in
is in Excel so ideally I need to copy this into Excel to send to the client.

You can also output your list of dependencies as JSON:

composer show --format=json

And then copy this into a tool such as Csvjson to convert to a CSV file.

I had to edit the JSON to convert to a flat CSV file, removing the root
“installed” element. I edited the JSON from:

{
     "installed": [
         {
             "name": "brick/math",
             ...
         },
         ...
         {
             "name": "webmozart/assert",
             ...
         }
     ]
 }

To:

[
         {
             "name": "brick/math",
             ...
         },
         ...
         {
             "name": "webmozart/assert",
             ...
         }
]

The JSON to CSV tool then downloads a clean CSV file which I can import into
Excel and supply to my client!

Another useful command is:

composer licenses

That outputs the open source license used for each package. This also supports
JSON output so can be converted to CSV in the same way.

CSV output seems a useful feature to me, so I suggested this on the Composer
discussion board. If others agree, I’ll see if I can contribute this. Otherwise
I may look at building a small Composer plugin.

Posted on September 22, 2024September 26, 2024


WORDCAMP US 2024

Matt Mullenweg opened his WordCamp US 2024 Q&A presentation with “this may be
one of my spiciest WordCamp presentations ever.” He went on to publicly attack
WP Engine (a sponsor at Word Camp US) and the private equity firm behind them,
Silver Lake. This left many attendees with a very negative ending to WordCamp.

Matt followed this up by posting on wordpress.org, the official website for the
open source project WordPress, to continue his criticism of WP Engine. In his
post Matt called WP Engine “a cancer to WordPress.”

This news post “WP Engine is not WordPress” will now appear on nearly every
WordPress site in the world on the admin dashboard (official WordPress news
channels have a very wide reach).

This is very strong criticism which to be honest seems uncalled for. And even if
Matt has valid reasons there are better, more productive ways to address this.
Using language like this feels very wrong to me, it’s poor leadership, and I
can’t see how it makes the community stronger.

Matt’s core frustration appears to be how commercial companies use open source
and don’t meaningfully contribute to it. He made a fair point saying commercial
companies talking open source need to use real open source licenses and that
what really makes open source is what he calls ecosystem thinking. He defined
this as: Learn, evolve, nourish, teach.

He called out WP Engine for brand confusion, a lack of open source contributions
to the WordPress project, and disabling core functionality on the WP Engine
hosting platform.

A recent campaign to encourage more open source contribution called Five for the
future has public declaration pages. Automattic pledges 3,786 hours a week,
while WP Engine only commits 47 hours a week. Matt mentioned it was more like 40
and indeed the public contribution page has since been updated to this figure.

Comparing WP Engine to Automattic is clearly unreasonable. Automattic is the
company run by Matt that essentially runs WordPress (strictly speaking it’s an
open source project, but with heavy influence and direction from Automattic).

Other big WordPress tech companies such as Yoast contribute 150 hours a week,
other hosting companies like BlueHost 53 hours and Siteground 42 hours.Yes, WP
Engine could contribute more to core, but compared to others it’s not an awful
record. And one I hope they can improve on.

The Five for the Future handbook states:

> “It represents a goal to contribute 5% of your time or resources to the
> WordPress project, recognizing that any contribution, no matter the amount, is
> valuable.”
> 
> https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/handbook/about-five-for-the-future/

Shaming companies for not doing more goes against the project’s own values.

WP Engine is a big player in the WordPress space and isn’t perfect. It’s true
buyouts and corporate investment can have a negative effect on good companies.

We’ve used the WP Engine hosting platform (both the Enterprise and normal
hosting packages) and the restrictions of their setup can be frustrating. But it
does work fairly well and our past experience of support has been good.

They purchased and now actively develop Advanced Content Fields (ACF), possibly
the most essential plugin for professional WordPress development (it has an open
source version). Interestingly I see WordPress is developing what may be a
replacement for ACF with custom fields in the Block Editor.

Matt’s follow up blog post stated WP Engine disable revisions, a core part of
WordPress, simply to make money. The storage mechanism for revisions is not
great and high numbers of revisions can seriously affect performance. So
limiting or disabling this is a fairly common approach.

There are lots of businesses using WordPress as the foundation for their
business. If more people use WordPress, WordPress as a whole grows. Not everyone
has to contribute to core to make a positive impact to the wider WordPress
community. And if big businesses use WordPress, more people will use WordPress.
It’s a virtuous cycle.

In the Q&A one person accused Matt of “punching down” and said “what seems like
vendettas are demotivating. With stalled market share we need to promote new
people coming into WordPress. WordPress started with people hacking on it. Not
negativity.”

I think a stalled market share is natural. At 43% WordPress already commands a
huge share of the web. But the web thrives on different people doing different
things, and I don’t think it would be healthy for the web for one platform to
dominate.

If WordPress wants to grow perhaps they could focus on working with the wider
PHP ecosystem to encourage developers to use WordPress for more use cases. For
example, supporting Composer the excellent package manager for PHP.

Later in his talk, Matt said “The idea we’re creating is bigger than any one
person.” Does that include him?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

EDIT (26 Sept 2024): Ryan McCue wrote a good post on why it’s important for the
whole WordPress community that WP Engine succeed in this unfair legal battle
with Automattic/WordPress.

Posted on January 3, 2024


NEW YEAR 2024

I’ve had a really relaxing Christmas break with the family this year, only
opening my laptop to read my friend’s advent murder mystery. I sit here drinking
a Christmas beer (a Belgium beer called Père Noël by De Ranke) writing a short
post summing up 2023 and my hopes for this year. In a minute I’ll get back to
that murder mystery and try to work out whodunnit!


WORK

2023 was a challenging year for many digital agencies. With the economic
slowdown continuing many of my peers at other digital shops reported
difficulties winning new work. We experienced similar challenges throughout a
lot of 2023, but I’m glad things picked up in the autumn and we finished the
year with 3 new charity clients – something I’m very proud of (both for the
effort my team put into the sales work and the fact we’re increasing our roster
of charity clients).

We hired local strategic digital marketing firm Sookio to undertake a
positioning review for Studio 24, which really helped focus how we talk about
ourselves. So far we’ve updated the Studio 24 homepage and have a new tagline
“Building a better web, together.” We have a whole new website in the plans
which we will launch later in 2024!

During 2023 I worked with the excellent business coach Susie McFarland. Our
monthly sessions (and a few in-person workshops) really helped dig into
different areas of running an agency and how we can improve it. I found this
really useful and we have a ton of really valuable, actionable stuff to help
improve the agency in 2024.

In July I joined the BIMA Sustainability Council, it’s an area I think is really
important for all businesses to tackle and I hope to help move things forward
within the BIMA community. Around the same time I started looking at what it
would take for Studio 24 to become B Corp accredited, something I am keen to
achieve in the next year.

Late September / early October was a particularly busy time for me. Across 3
weeks I hosted a Boye & Co Digital Leadership meeting in London, attended the HE
Connect conference in Liverpool (my first time in this amazing city), and
travelled to Barcelona to talk about the W3C redesign and accessibility at
DotAll, the Craft CMS conference. This was an amazing experience, I took along 2
of my work colleagues, met many lovely folk in the Craft CMS community, and
after the conference enjoyed an extended trip with the family exploring
Barcelona.

In December I travelled with another colleague to Brussels for SymfonyCon, met
up with a friend and took the opportunity to meet up with our client, W3C, who
were also attending. Although remote work can be great I really enjoy seeing
people in person!

Looking back on last year’s post we did start having quarterly in-person company
days last year, which I think is really needed now we’re a remote first company.
Among many client website launches I was very proud to see the new W3C website
redesign launch live in June which we received a string of awards for,
culminating in the Gaddys award which Emma travelled to sunny San Francisco to
accept the award!


FAMILY AND FRIENDS

My family and I saw My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican in January, it was
simply amazing. The way they used puppetry to mimic the animation of the film
was beautiful, the music was incredible – the band suspended up in the trees –
composed by Joe Hisaishi, who worked on the original film. They have another run
on now so if you can see it I’d recommend it. Other theatre trips included the
brilliant Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Hammersmith Lyric. Daniel
Rigby was a sparkling ball of energy as the Maniac. And Dear England at the
National Theatre. I went to this with friends and took Bill along, who really
enjoyed it. It was nice to see such a mixed audience of young and old watching a
play about football!

As well as Barcelona and Brussels for work, I travelled to Porto with friends in
January. It was an amazing trip, and like typical Englishmen the 4 of us
happened to be out walking with our umbrellas just when the flash floods hit
Porto – flooding the streets and causing a lot of damage. We managed to walk for
5 minutes in the old town before, utterly soaked and up against torrents of
water, we holed up in a cafe and waited until the rain passed with hot
chocolate!

Family trips this year were in the UK, with a big family meet-up in Bath (my
first time there), a trip to Southwold and Latitude Festival, and trips to
Oxford, Lewes and Norfolk.

We were lucky enough to get tickets to Wimbledon this year and I took Bill
along. Was brill to see world class tennis players compete, including seeing
Carlos Alcaraz in the practise courts.

One of the highlights of the Cambridge Film Festival this year was watching
documentaries Senna and Maradonna in the presence of filmmaker Asif Kapadia.
Asif was at the festival for a couple of days and was very generous in his Q&As
(often expanding on really interesting points linked to the original question)
and talking to the Youth Lab team about how to get into filmmaking.


WHAT DOES 2024 HOLD?

I want to spend more time relaxing and enjoying time with family and friends. I
hope to have an extended holiday this summer travelling across Europe with my
son Bill (by train we hope), once he’s finished his GCSEs.

I want to see more theatre. I am off to Soho Theatre tomorrow and we have a trip
planned to Stratford-upon-Avon (which I’ve never visited). The brilliant Matthew
Baynton (of Ghosts fame) is playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream which
has to be seen!

I’d like to learn something new. Not really sure what, but probably something
creative. I shall await serendipity!

I have a few work resolutions for 2024. One is helping improve how we use
documentation at Studio 24. Reading the GitLab remote handbook it’s clear
written documentation is key to working successfully remote first.

I’d like to attend more in-person events where I get the chance to collaborate
with people from different backgrounds. The Boye & Co events are good for this,
they bring together people across client-side, government, academia, and
industry. Cross collaboration is something I really value and I feel always
brings out good results.

And I’d like to create more. Although I lead an agency I’ve always loved making
things with technology, so hope I get the opportunity to build something useful
this year.

That’s me for now, I hope you have a most excellent 2024!

Posted on January 1, 2023January 1, 2023


2022

It’s been a while since I posted an end of year review, so thought I’d have a
go!


WORK

It’s been a busy year at Studio 24 and I was really ready for a break by
Christmas. It feels like we’re finally coming out of the pandemic years
properly. We had our 11th Studio Day at the wonderful Fitzwilliam Museum (a
client) with everyone in attendance for the first time since the pandemic. As
ever, it is wonderful to see people in person. We’ve managed to create a
successful format for these all-staff days. Some games to warm people up, a
little bit of business stuff, lightning talks from anyone on any topic (always
really creative and fun), and one interactive session where we work on something
to improve the agency. We currently have these twice a year and I hope to
increase the frequency in 2023.

We worked on a wide range of projects in 2022. Some of the most fulfilling was
our work with CBM, the global disability charity. Earlier in 2022, we launched a
Ukrainian language version of the Humanitarian Hands-on Tool (HHoT) website in
response to the war in Ukraine. This was a fairly short turnaround but felt
really important. The HHoT website is focussed on sharing information on how to
provide inclusive humanitarian aid.

Later in the year we launched the Inclusive Participation Toolbox which is all
about including persons with disabilities in development and humanitarian
programs. We’re really passionate about working with charities and
not-for-profit and hope to do more of this type of work in 2023.

In May, our long-time client Crossrail launched the Elizabeth Line. We’ve been
working with them for over 13 years so it was amazing to see the new London
Underground line be available for public use. Though it also marks the end of
our relationship as Crossrail shuts down and everything is handed over to TfL.
It’s been a great experience and a valuable stepping stone to public sector
work.

We also started a bunch of new things at Studio 24. Volunteer days (a few of us
helped the Rowan Forest School), Hack Days (the dev team get together to
experiment and try new things), we had a work experience student for the first
time since the pandemic, and Nicki launched our accessible front-end starter kit
Apollo which we now use on all client projects (and is available to anyone as an
open source project). We’ve already seen the impact as new staff join and can
onboard to our front-end practices quickly.

Earlier in 2022 also saw us finish officially working on the W3C redesign
project. It’s been a massive effort over the past 2 years with amazing work
across the Studio 24 team and at W3C. After working remotely with W3C for 2
years I finally met some of the core team in person in the south of France in
early September, which was amazing! W3C are very busy with the transition to
non-profit status. We continue to keep in touch to help support W3C with the
final stages of finishing the Beta site before it launches publicly (hopefully
in early 2023!).

I attended a bunch of interesting events last year including Web Summer Camp,
dConstruct, Boye & Co Digital Leadership Day in Cambridge, and Higher Education
Connect (I talked at 2 of these events). It was nice to get back to in-person
gatherings where it’s so much easier to meet new people and share experiences.

A few team members moved on to new jobs (always sad to see people go, but I wish
them the best). We hired a new Front-End Developer, Miro, and advertised for 2
new roles in December. We successfully hired for the first role, Web Developer,
just before the Christmas break and are still looking for a PHP Developer to
join the team. It was amazing how many people applied for the Web Developer
role, with 215 applications in just over a month! We use the excellent software
Homerun to help manage applications, it certainly made processing large numbers
of applicants far easier.


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

For the first time I’ve hired a business coach to help me improve the business
(and myself), so far this is going really well. It’s good to have someone
external to talk to who has a deep understanding of running agencies. Over the
past few years I’ve talked to more people about agency life and there certainly
seems to be more people willing to share experiences than there used to be when
I started.


PUBLIC SPEAKING

I’ve always been fairly reluctant to do public speaking, but also keen to share
knowledge and get out there more. It’s something I’d like to make more time for.
This year we seem to have had a lot more success with public speaking at Studio
24.

I spoke about the W3C redesign project at Web Summer Camp in September, an
amazing conference run by friendly agency NetGen on the coast in beautiful
Croatia. I also spoke about writing for accessibility at HE Connect in
Manchester in October.

Marie, our Front-End Team Lead, spoke about W3C, Craft and accessibility at
Craft CMS’s conference dotCMS in New York City at the end of September.

We’ll be looking for more places to share our knowledge in 2023.


THE ARTS

The 41st Cambridge Film Festival, of which I’m a trustee, ran in October
half-term, which was great fun. It’s still a really challenging time for
charities and cinema, but it felt like a step closer to pre-pandemic audiences
and was a really well run festival this year. Highlights included comedy The
Banshees of Inisherin, set around the start of the Irish Civil War, Corsage, the
modern and brilliantly acted retelling of Empress Elizabeth “Sisi” of Austria,
and the hilariously dark Triangle of Sadness. My favourite film of the festival
was Sinjar, a superb Catalan film about three women whose lives have been
affected by ISIS. It was a well told story with some superb performances and
natural realism.

Fitzwilliam Museum had a superb exhibition on called Defaced, a very modern
exhibition on money and protest and how it’s been used by society. Some great
artifacts such as forged British notes created by prisoners of war in Germany
and artwork created with worthless banknotes (due to hyperinflation). I attended
the opening and we had a curator-led tour as part of our Studio Day which was
fascinating. If you get a chance it’s on until 8th Jan.

I saw the brilliant Best of Enemies at Nöel Coward Theatre in December. I wasn’t
aware of the political TV battle of wits between liberal Gore Vidal and
right-wing William F. Buckley before. Zachary Quinto and David Harewood give
superb performances and the production is very modern and engaging.

As ever, the Panto at Cambridge Arts Theatre, another of our clients, was a
great evening out. Panto is so much fun and I’ve really got back into it as an
adult.

A couple of book highlights. I’m usually a fiction fan but I really enjoyed Bob
Mortimer’s hilarious autobiography And Away and David Attenborough’s important A
Life on Our Planet about the threat to our planet through biodiversity loss and
climate change.

In November the family all attended a book talk by Randall Munroe, of XKCD fame,
talking about his new book What If 2. The talk was at the Department of
Chemistry in Cambridge and was hosted by Adam Rutherford. Randall was pretty
laid back and told lots of funny stories about his journey writing What If.


TRAVEL

One trip with friends to Luxembourg in February where we also ventured into
Germany to visit Trier, the oldest city in Germany (founded by the Romans). It
was a fun trip, though one of my friends sadly couldn’t join since he contracted
Covid just before travelling. In Germany we encountered some quite strict Covid
rules, we had to present our Covid pass every time we entered a bar or
restaurant. Sensible precautions, but it feels like such a different world
already only 10 months on.

I travelled to Nice and Sophia Antopolis, France in early Sept to visit W3C en
route to speaking at Web Summer Camp in Šibenik, Croatia. It was my first time
in Croatia and it is an incredibly beautiful country. I’ll certainly be coming
back.

Family trips this year have been in the UK, visiting family and a long weekend
to Leicester to visit the National Space Centre and the King Richard III visitor
centre. Both were really interesting, we all love anything to do with space and
it was good to see the story of how King Richard III was found in a council car
park (we saw the dramatisation later in the year in the film The Lost King).

I plan to start 2023 with My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican with the family
and a trip with friends to Porto, Portugal. Should be a good year ahead…

Posted on January 9, 2022


A LITTLE BIT ABOUT FILESIZE UNITS (KB, MB, ETC)

I helped my 14-year old son with his homework today and there was a question
about how to convert from Kilobytes (KB) to Megabytes (MB). My instinct was to
tell him to divide by 1024 (the more technically accurate version of a KB) but
we both decided the answer they wanted was 1,000.

In my work creating websites and web applications we sometimes report on
filesizes, usually in human-readable formats such as reporting on the filesize
in MB. For example, a document listing may include the filesize to give the user
an idea of how long a download may take.

So this made me think about how we calculate human-readable versions of
filesizes on websites. In the past we tend to divide bytes by (1024 * 1024) to
get to MB. Now I wasn’t so sure. So I had a bit of a read around.


BINARY AND DECIMAL UNITS

Historically computers have always used binary units, since that’s how computers
work. At their simplest level everything is either a 1 or a 0.

Traditionally a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, a gigabyte
1024 megabytes, and so on. This is called base 2 (or binary) since these numbers
are all a power of 2 (1024 = 210 bytes).

As computers became more mainstream people naturally assumed a kilobyte meant
1000 bytes, a megabyte 1000 kilobytes, since base 10 (or decimal) is what we’re
used to as humans.

So we currently have two ways to describe a kilobyte: decimal (1,000 bytes) or
binary (1,024 bytes).


MESSY REAL WORLD DEFINITIONS

There seems to be a lot of confusion in computing with developers often using
the “more accurate” binary unit to calculate file sizes and others using the
decimal unit.

In the early days of the web most computers used binary units to report
filesizes. This has changed over time.

It turns out hard drive manufacturers refer to storage sizes using the decimal
format. So a 100 MB hard drive is actually 100 * 1000 KB (rather than 100 * 1024
KB). This results in a smaller storage space than if you used the binary unit to
calculate storage size (e.g. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes in decimal or
1,073,741,824 bytes in binary, this is around 7% smaller). Good for sales, less
good for the consumer.

There’s even a Wikipedia page on the confusion this has created. Interestingly
this notes that the US legal system has decided “1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes (the
decimal definition) rather than the binary definition.”

There are also standards. IEC 80000-13, published in 2008, defines a kibibyte
(or KiB) as 1024 bytes and a kilobyte (KB) as 1000 bytes.

According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) the
decimal format should be used as standard unless noted in a case-by-case basis
(see Historical Context on this NIST reference page). This is also known as SI,
The International System of Units, which defines the prefix killo as 1,000.

So technically you should write KiB if you mean 1024 bytes. But it turns out
very few people do this, and everyone just sticks to kilobytes or KB whether
they mean decimal or binary.

So today we’re still stuck with some people using KB = 1024 bytes and some
people using KB = 1000 bytes. Yay!

However, clearly most people don’t care. And storage sizes are so large now most
people don’t really notice the differences. Unless you’re a computer or web
engineer who has to do calculations on this sort of thing.


WHAT DO MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS USE?

Well, here’s where it gets interesting.

In my early days of web development (which started around 1999) I used a Windows
PC, these days I use a Mac. While hard drives advertised their size in decimal
units, Windows itself reported filesizes in binary. So in practical terms a 1 GB
hard drive actually had less space for file storage on it (around 953 MB
available space). I remember that annoying me!

In the early days of Macs and smartphones they also reported filesizes in binary
units. So it made sense that most people used binary units to report filesizes
on web apps.

From 2009 Mac switched to reporting file sizes in decimal (with Mac OS X Snow
Leopard, presumably in response to the IEC standard). This didn’t happen until
2017 for iOS and Android.

Today Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android use decimal for file storage sizes.
Windows, as far as I’m aware, still uses binary units. However, to spice things
up Microsoft’s cloud office service 365 uses decimal units when referring to
cloud storage size!

So today if you have a file which is 500,000 bytes in size this would report as
488 KB (binary) on Windows and 500 KB (decimal) on Macs, Ubuntu Linux and modern
smartphones.


WHAT WORKS FOR USERS?

Which is right? To be honest, I don’t think that matters. What’s more important
is which makes more sense for your users.

Most web development resources still tell you to use a binary units to convert
between file storage sizes (e.g. bytes to KB).

But as you can see, almost everyone else uses decimal units in the real world
(except for Windows OS – but even Microsoft uses decimal for their
cross-platform 365 service).

When building web applications it’s always best to do what is best for your
users. So now, most of the time I think it makes more sense to report filesizes
using decimal units rather than binary (so 1,000 bytes = 1 KB). Which is the
opposite to what I thought before I started writing this post!

Just to make things fun, other measurements which use kilobytes actually do use
binary units consistently, computer memory (or RAM) being the obvious example.
As far as I know every system out there uses binary units for measuring memory!

If this is all too much, I’ll leave you with the excellent xkcd web comic,
kilobyte edition:

Posted on December 14, 2021


ERROR MONITORING TOOLS AND UK/EUROPEAN DATA STORAGE FOR GDPR COMPLIANCE

At Studio 24 we work with a lot of government and public sector clients, who are
understandly keen to comply with GDPR and are therefore careful about where data
is sent and stored.

There is a strong preference to use services that store all data within UK or
the European Economic Area (EEA).

This is an issue for many SaaS products since most of them store data in the US
or Canada. While there is the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement this has become
uncertain after Brexit.

Where possible, we aim to use EAA or UK hosted data for public sector digital
services. Where that’s not possible we can use non-EU hosted data for services,
but we need to justify this with our clients.

Two tools we currently use for error reporting and monitoring are Bugsnag and
Usersnap. After my review I discovered Bugsnag is hosted in the US, though
Usersnap is hosted in Europe. A summary of my research on data storage locations
is below.

In addition I’ve also added notes on where you can strip indentifying user data
from external data storage. This can be helpful for data privacy.


HOSTED IN EAA


USERSNAP

Data hosted on AWS in Europe (Germany or Ireland). GDPR docs are a bit sparse
but you can request more details via email. It’s not really possible to strip
data via Usersnap due to how it works (on demand screenshot tool rather than
automated monitoring).


NEW RELIC

It is possible to select EU data storage when setting up your account. New Relic
publish information on security and privacy. HTTP parameters are not logged by
default to avoid logging user data.


DATADOG

You can use the EU site to ensure all data is stored within the EU. View GDPR
docs.


HOSTED IN US ONLY


AIRBRAKE

Data hosted in USA. GDPR documentation is available on request.


BUGSNAG

Data hosted on Google Cloud in USA. Bugsnag does have a detailed Data Processing
Agreement and some examples on how to delete user data for data deletion
requests which is nice to see.


LOGGLY

As far as I can tell data is stored in USA.


LOGROCKET

Data is stored in USA. Lots of options to exclude sensitive data.


RAYGUN

Data is stored in USA. You can remove sensitive data.


ROLLBAR

Data is stored in USA. There is some docs on scrubbing data in JS.


SENTRY

Data is stored in USA. See data privacy docs. Sentry has data scrubbing tools.



Posted on March 17, 2021March 18, 2021


ONE YEAR ON

I wrote a blog post over at Studio 24 on running a digital agency over the past
year in a pandemic.

It’s been an interesting year, to say the least. My post covers how we’ve
supported staff, the impact on mental health, our flagship project for W3C,
moving to a new studio, how we donated office equipment, and what the future
holds.

Read more at One year on.


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