
Sustainable/Open Business


Technical Debt and CMS maintenance
As we onboard a slew of new clients due to our joining

News: FuseIQ and Freelock joining forces!
Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2020. For immediate release.

Picking a technology to develop expertise and sell services

WordPress vs Drupal is like Word vs Excel
Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.

Freelock mail server upgrade
To our clients using our email hosting:
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Yesterday we turned on a shiny brand new mail server.

Don't Play Whack-a-mole on Prod!
If you’re making improvements to your sites, even as simple as pushing updates, you’re going to be changing things around. Inevitably, you’ll break something. Wouldn’t you like to find that out before the production site goes down from the “improvements”?

Why have a technology decision-making process?
In short, choosing a particular technology allows us to:
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Make a decision once and leverage the results over and over
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Increase profitability
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Increase developer satisfaction

Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.

Is your host a single point of failure?
Just ran across a sad story where Digital Ocean is accused of killing a startup:

Basecamp moves from Medium to WordPress, and kinda misses the point
Software as a Service (SaaS) is all the rage these days.

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Wordpress 5.0 Makes Wordpress a "Layout Builder"--What Does that Mean?
Wordpress's most recent release, which they are calling "5.0" (catchy, huh?), comes with a bunch of new functionality and makes the solution "easier to use". Of course, I'm putting "easier to