I’m know I’ll be up waaaaay too late tonight watching election coverage so who knows if there will be a Morning Coffee tomorrow, or if anyone will even pay attention with ongoing election coverage. So today is as much as I can throw at you.

Bluehost Acquired

Technically the parent company, Endurance International Group. The breaking news from yesterday, and quick thoughts from today.

Congratulations David Snead!

I’ve known David for a few years now, and can’t think of anyone more deserving of the Ron Yokubaitis Internet Community Leadership Award, i2Coalition: “The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) presents the Ron Yokubaitis Internet Community Leadership Award to an individual whose contributions to U.S. Internet policy have helped create a better internet through promoting privacy protections, an open Internet and continued innovation.” Thank you for all of your work!

Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome

Sometime a primer like this crosses your mailbox and hits the spot, from Coder Society, How to Become Cloud Native – And the Tools to Get You There: “Understanding and choosing the correct cloud native technologies are critical for increasing development velocity and spending less time and money developing and maintaining tooling and infrastructure. This post describes the must-know cloud native tools and recommends specific projects you can start using today.” This is a great list of descriptions of tools that you should at least know about if not (already?) using.

WordPress 5.5.2/5.5.3

Per usual, Wordfence gives us a deep dive into what’s what with the latest security releases, Unpacking the WordPress 5.5.2/5.5.3 Security Release: “As with every release, the Wordfence team analyzed this release to determine the severity of any vulnerabilities that may have been patched to ensure that Wordfence users are adequately protected by the Wordfence Threat Defense Feed.”

Vote!

Pretty obvious and not much to say here that hasn’t been said before.