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Websites & Traffic Update: November 2026
Two years of search data across my two technical sites: the old site’s rise and fall, sqldba.blog taking over, and why October 2026 is the best…
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What Went Into sqldba.blog
587 posts, 195 scripts and a traffic dip. How sqldba.blog got built, between me and Claude, and how the work splits.
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The Hardest Problems Might Not Stay Unsolved
A video on P vs NP that stuck in my mind, PHP on the mainstream news, and supermarket freezers hacked to 50°C. The hardest problems might…
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Hyrox Glasgow Is Booked. Time to Lock In.
Hyrox Glasgow is booked for March 2027. After more than a year of weekly NuRox classes, the consistency is there, now it is about locking in…
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2026, the Year of Running AI Agents
2026 is the year I started running AI agents: what that looks like in numbers, what it built, how the work is gated, and what went…
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Is the West Highland Way Hard? An Honest Look Before You Book
People ask if the West Highland Way is hard. Physically it is, technically it isn’t, and how hard it feels depends almost entirely on how many…
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Twenty Seconds
I’ve never entered a fitness event before. Not a 5K, not a 10K, nothing. If you’d asked me ten years ago whether I’d ever voluntarily wake…
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A Day in the Life of a Remote SRE / DBA (Working from Edinburgh)
What a typical fully remote day looks like for a Senior SQL Server DBA / SRE in Edinburgh: the 9am checks, on-call, the tools, and fitting…
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When Automation Stops Helping
Automation is usually presented as progress. After years of working with systems that actually have consequences, I’ve learned that this isn’t always true. If something can…
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Things That Quietly Improved My Life
Most of the things that improved my life didn’t arrive as big decisions or turning points. They showed up slowly. Quietly. Almost unnoticed at the time.…