🕑Jun 02, 2026 🖋John Locke
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"Argo-nizing" Our Platform for AI Development
How grouping related repos into a single parent directory made AI coding assistants significantly more useful
DevOps
🕑May 28, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Every Night, Argo Watches
While your site is running, things change. A content editor tweaks a configuration setting. A security vulnerability surfaces in a dependency. A production fix gets applied directly instead of going through the normal release process.
🕑May 18, 2026 🖋John Locke
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The Rules Have Changed: Security in the Age of AI-Assisted Attacks
Security is getting dramatically harder and more expensive. AI is simultaneously driving an explosion in vulnerability discovery and weaponizing the exploits that follow. The question for every organization with anything online is no longer whether to invest in resilience — it's whether that investment is already in place before the next incident arrives.
🕑May 06, 2026 🖋John Locke
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When Your WordPress Site Launches Into a Performance Crisis
A real-world post-mortem on 15 performance issues we fixed in 4 days — and what every WordPress site owner should know before going live.
🕑Sep 22, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Use Drupal Flake for PHPUnit testing
Drupal Flake is a new way of doing local Drupal development (running a self-contained Drupal site on your desktop or laptop).
🕑Sep 22, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Easy unit testing with Drupal Flake and AI - Group PURL, a case study
AI does not replace system engineering. Stories abound about AI running amok, deleting production databases, exposing private data, failing to deliver on promises.
🕑Jun 12, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Website Availability - handling an outage
How do you get a website back up, when it goes down?
🕑Sep 09, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Deployment and release strategies
When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name, point it at a webhost, put the website code there, and you're up and running!
After a site is live, it gets a lot more complicated.
🕑Feb 27, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"
A client asks about yet another hosting option:
The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following resources:
6GB RAM (burstable)
150GB SSD Disk space
5TB Monthly Bandwidth
4 free dedicated IP's
🕑Dec 06, 2018 🖋John Locke
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WordPress reaches 5.0!
A major new release for WordPress dropped today -- perhaps the one with the biggest impact in WordPress history!
Should you upgrade?
Probably not just yet. At least not if you have content to publish.
🕑Dec 06, 2018 🖋Ben Weagraff
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What's up on Nerd Mountain? Go Ahead Make Changes in Prod! We Got Your Back
Have you ever heard the one about the web developer who goes in to make one last change to the site at 4:45PM on a Friday afternoon? It is SUCH an easy fix--he can get it done and go home for the weekend with his head held high. Ah, what a relaxing weekend it will be!
🕑Jul 24, 2017 🖋John Locke
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How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?
DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the other way around.