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iwantmyname.com for domains, simple registration with very little upselling or marketing gumpf

CloudFlare for DNS

Vultr or DigitalOcean for hosting

The process of deleting your account isn't something that has to be you can do yourself using a "delete my account" button with half a dozen confirmation boxes.

They can process it themselves by sending a request and still be GDPR compliant.

Forget about the money part for a while; look at problems to solve and things you can build as learning exercises to try and get your skills up to scratch. Look at a todo app - boring I know but you'll learn a lot.

I've built a few things I find useful and expanding on them to try and monetise them.

I get this glitch too. Nice concept though

Current reading material

Dark Matt and Trojan Horses by Dan Hill

Interaction of Color by Josef Albers

Simplicity by Edward de Bono

iMac with an extra monitor, keyboard and mouse, notebook, sticky notes, water bottle and a tub of almonds for snacks.

Temporarily have a fan too due to weather at the minute.

Most recruiters still need your CV/Resume in a PDF or Word doc so it can be scanned by their software.

This is mine [https://code-designs.co.uk/] it's fairly minimalist with a single typeface so the focus is on the content not the design.

I'd look at nextCloud https://nextcloud.com/ Open source and can handle most file types.

Koken is more of a solution for building a photography based website. It wouldn't work for photos you'd want to keep private.

You can create a segment and export it as a CSV, that way you can then reimport into a new list with the related GDPR fields and delete the old list.

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a dark pattern, it's just a bad UI.

GDPR fields aren't accessible through the API at the minute, MailChimp are apparently working on it but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I've used MailChimp a lot and it's good Campaign Monitor is awesome from a templating standpoint. Sendy is by far the cheapest and is self hosted (I haven't used this so can't say whether it's any good or not)

Drip seems really focused on marketing automation for ecommerce rather than general email marketing with its built in ECRM

Where do you live?? If you are within the EU you must have been living under a rock for the past 6 months.

GDPR is new legislation that evolves most data protection laws to make it better for consumers to be in control of their digital information.

This includes your name and email address for marketing purposes as well as so much more. If the organisation didn't follow best practice and full gain consent to be able to contact you to establish this beyond a point of doubt.

If the data is anonymised when collected you can't follow through with the right to erasure as they're should be nothing uniquely identifiable for that user.

Otherwise you have to do it on request, either by email or form submission or link; automated or manually as you will have 24 hours to follow through with the request. I'd keep track of these requests just in case you need to restore a backup where their data still exists, to notify them and delete their data again from the backup.

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As long as you are looking into GDPR and how it affects your business you can evolve it over time rather than completely change everything by the 25th.

As someone who lives in the UK not even I would move to London; it is the economic hub of the UK but with that comes huge rent and high competition to find office space.

Look at other cities like Cambridge, Manchester, Norwich; all of which would open their arms to new startups.

Brexit will make all this extremely awkward no matter where you choose without access to the open market and new immigration laws that will come into place.

Anything to do with company formation to protect yourself from arbitration you should talk to legal counsel.

Other considerations would be GDPR if doing anything within the EU.

It isn't just Facebook that collects this data and allows others to use it - it's the business model for dozens of other organisations including Google. Two people quitting one organisation won't make much of a change but governments banding together to create legislation to better protect users would; however unlikely that is to happen.

Head of digital for a small design studio. And not really happy here due to the sometimes hostile environment between the egotistic designers and myself and even the partners who don't have the back bone to do anything about it. My day is made up of development, server health checks, writing proposals, helping out with strategy. The money is nice but that should come second to actually enjoying the role to me.

Thanks, makes perfect sense; not sure of what other features to add right now so might base it on number of seats to suit other organisations more.

Great idea and well done with balancing it with a full time job and a child.

The only thing I can pick up on is spelling and grammar on the website, the main thing that jumped out was the word "MARKEETERS" you mean "marketers"; little details like that can bring down conversion rates as it makes you look amateurish.

Are Google still trying to brainwash everyone into trusting them? I find it funny when they are the ones who, if they could, would track our every movement to then try and sell us something?

I can understand the fact that while ML/AI are still fairly closed off systems as they are not understood by the general population that having someone with UX skills to be able to better design the interactions and help people trust AI/ML products (preferably not developed by Google)

This really doesn't work, I've taken a few "sick" days but to be honest, we are that quiet sometimes that nobody even notices if I'm not there

It gets worse with designing for marketing campaigns, the amount of anti-patterns like confirm shaming is ridiculous. There needs to be better guidelines and enforcement to stop companies from using psychological "hacks" to get into our minds to trick us into doing something.

Hopefully this will impact on their profits a little to make the fine have more of an economic impact so that it creates an example to those who don't take data privacy and security seriously.

All of this data was leaked through a WordPress plugin uploaded to an old installation; WordPress is one of the easiest platforms to secure (IMO) so can't understand why organisations can't take the short amount of time needed to secure it.

This looks a great project but can't really see why you'd use it. It's awesome to see which files have been edited the most but what would you do with that information?

Using a PHP based stack, Magento and WooCommerce are my go to solutions depending on requirements and size.

If there as a huge range of products then Magento, if not WooCommerce which is easier for me to work with and allows easier customisation and extending the website in general.

Personally I love Vue and the ideas behind it. React has managed to break into the industry with a bang and some (bad) PR with the licensing issues they hit last year and has now become very widely used.

They are the same language but require different ways of thinking which both have their uses.