Hard Refresh Podcast

Data is so fragile. Now that data has moved into the cloud, it’s more accessible, but also more ethereal. We love how easy it is to work with remote data, but we have to be even more careful... Read More

We’re working hard on several episodes coming next year, but we’re taking a month off of publishing, to do season human things. So grab some ‘nog, snuggle a robot, hug your humans, and enjoy this brief message from all of us here... Read More

The EMyth Incident Revisited This is the story of how a web development company was really excited to launch an updated version of its own website, and it went wrong in just about the worst way possible. So... Read More

Richard Tape of the University of British Columbia runs a massive multi-site WordPress installation infrastructure with tens of thousands of individual websites. A change to the WordPress shortcodes API broke hundreds of them, and Richard had to get creative to fix it. The incident would keep him busy with hundreds of urgent support requests for days, and it shook his faith in the WordPress project.

Pippin Williamson had a big problem: Thousands of business owners were charging the wrong people for subscriptions to their products — because of his software. No pressure, Pippin! You got this.