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  • The Upfront Investment That Saves 10,000 Hours

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    Eric Mann

    There’s a pattern in tech where people mock the setup cost of automation without accounting for the return. I spent a day building a Grunt-based WordPress bootstrapper in 2013. Fortune 500 companies are still running code built on that foundation today.

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  • Automated WordPress Development

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    Eric Mann

    Whether or not you make it to WordCamp Seattle, you too can benefit from merging Grunt into your WordPress development workflow! A best-practice in web development is to keep JS and CSS to a minimum by merging multiple files and minifying that file so it downloads quickly. This is a tedious process for many, and

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