Senior User Experience Developer Jo Murgel created a short video course to explore a simple usage of Styled Components. Check it out!
Alley Insight
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You’ve heard Alley is a company committed to building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, and are wondering what actions we’ve taken. Over the past year we have focused on supporting equity at all intersections and improving team member learning and development as part of a long-term sustainability plan to embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts in all areas of Alley’s business.
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WordPress itself is fundamentally secure and extremely stable. The vast majority of security issues with WordPress sites are caused by avoidable errors: failing to update WordPress core, using unvetted plugins, and using insecure passwords.
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In the world of content management systems, there are many approaches you could consider when building your website. Today we’ll look at three popular options: traditional WordPress, JAMstack, and decoupled WordPress.
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Lede, Alley’s platform for journalism startups, is our answer to scaling the technology needed by news organizations.
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Surveys can be a valuable way to get data directly from your users. But only if the questions are well-thought out. We discuss some of the most frequent mistakes people make, and how to avoid them.
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While the many benefits of WordPress are well-known — it’s free and open-source, it features a user-friendly content editor, it makes SEO easy — WordPress is plagued by misconceptions about its perceived weaknesses.
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In this video we explore what it means to have an invisible disability and how that impacts the way you design and build products.
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There were a few essential things that we needed before starting our own podcast, Two Scrums Up. If you’re thinking of starting one, here are some things to keep in mind.
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Alley’s core company values of quality, transparency and accountability closely align with the values of Scrum and, more broadly, the principles of agile software development. However, recent events have led us to consider how the practice of Scrum also supports our community values – radical candor, psychological safety, asynchronous communication, diversity, and inclusion.
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One of the easiest ways to answer the question of productivity is relatively simple: Make work visible. How? Try a manual burndown chart. Here’s how.
