https://wearerudder.com/the-log/ Teardowns of the real work: builds, rescues, and the judgment inside them. en https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-extra-year/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-extra-year/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A federal extension moved the ADA website deadline for towns under 50,000 from April 2027 to April 2028. The work is the same size on either side of the date, and done early is cheaper. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/give-the-team-someone-to-work-with/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/give-the-team-someone-to-work-with/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Building a platform for an internal team means thinking about who maintains it. At Marin County we lead development and train the county's staff to work on it themselves. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-tools-were-getting-in-the-way/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-tools-were-getting-in-the-way/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Marin County was a year into a Sitecore migration and behind schedule. We moved them off proprietary tooling onto open Drupal, built the platform in a month, and 21 departments migrated over the next nine. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/we-thought-they-were-paying-too-much/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/we-thought-they-were-paying-too-much/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The MTA was spending more than $750,000 a year to host two websites. We checked whether that number made sense. It didn't — and they saved $2.1 million over three years. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/drupal-is-dying/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/drupal-is-dying/ Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Not because it is useless. Because the incentives around it push buyers away — the agency upsell machine, the learning curve, and the drying talent pipeline. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-credibility-of-complexity/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/the-credibility-of-complexity/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT Why impressive architecture diagrams win contracts, and why complexity is a cost to be justified every time — not a signal of quality. https://wearerudder.com/the-log/how-to-properly-log-an-issue/ https://wearerudder.com/the-log/how-to-properly-log-an-issue/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT Logging issues is an inevitability. So are the hassles that come with improperly logged ones — a quick guide to logging issues that get fixed fast.