February 2026

📅 2026-02-28

📝 Blog Posts

• Getting Paid For Your Data Sounds Great: Essay examining data marketplace promises vs real data sovereignty, comparing River's individual monetisation model with Māori-led collective governance (Whare Hauora) and community-owned infrastructure
  • Link: Getting Paid For Your Data Sounds Great
• Everyone Was Logged Into the Same Session: Essay on the experience of building and debugging a production React app with an AI co-pilot, and why fundamentals matter more than ever in the orchestrating intelligence era
  • Link: Everyone Was Logged Into the Same Session
• The Inevitability of AI: Essay challenging the narrative that AI is inevitable, distinguishing between unavoidable and inevitable, and questioning whose agenda is being slipstreamed into blind acceptance
  • Link: The Inevitability of AI

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📅 2026-02-24

📚 Documentation Updates

• Proxmox pmxcfs Cluster Rollback (Part 1): New technical documentation covering Proxmox pmxcfs cluster filesystem rollback after power failure, investigation process, and recovery strategy for orphaned VM disks
  • Added SEO-optimized frontmatter with title, description, keywords, and tags
  • Link: Proxmox pmxcfs Rollback

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📅 2026-02-21

🛠️ Site Improvements

• Homepage SEO Metadata Overhaul: Replaced generic "Home" title with keyword-rich title and meta description targeting cloud engineering, Kubernetes, and political analysis search terms
• JSON-LD Structured Data: Added WebSite + Person schema.org markup with linked social profiles for rich snippet eligibility
• Social Card for Link Previews: Generated branded og:image (1200x630) and configured Open Graph/Twitter Card meta tags in Docusaurus config
• Homepage Design & UX Improvements: Reduced hero section padding and image size to push content cards above the fold; added "Explore my work" CTA button and animated scroll indicator
• Cards Section Heading & Hero Intro: Added keyword-rich h2 section heading above cards and introductory paragraph describing the site's focus areas
• Improved Card Descriptions: Rewrote terse keyword-list card descriptions into compelling sentences; unified newsletter card hover behavior with other cards; improved text contrast from #888 to #aaa
• Dynamic Content Counts Plugin: Created build-time Docusaurus plugin that counts blog/docs markdown files automatically, replacing hardcoded numbers
• Latest Blog Post on Homepage: Extended content-counts plugin to parse and display the latest blog post title on the Analysis card

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📅 2026-02-16

🛠️ Site Improvements

• Google Analytics Event Tracking for Homepage Cards: Added GA4 custom event tracking to all three homepage content cards
  • Tracks homepage_card_click events with card name and destination for each card (Analysis & Essays, Technical Docs, Newsletter)
  • Enables click-through rate analysis from homepage to each section
• Blog Section Engagement Tracker: Added client-side module to measure multi-page sessions within Analysis & Essays
  • Fires blog_section_enter, blog_page_view (with depth counter), and blog_deep_engagement (3+ pages) events
  • Uses sessionStorage for per-session page depth tracking
• Newsletter Conversion Funnel Tracking: Added newsletter_page_view event on subscribe page with referral source detection, and newsletter_cta_click event on doc footer CTA
• Content Section Tagging: Added client module that tags every page view with its content section (analysis, docs, newsletter, etc.) for traffic source segmentation in GA4
  • Tracks cross-section exploration with sections_visited_count and sections_visited parameters

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Removed accidentally committed articles.json: Removed 7,600-line Beehiiv feed export from repo and added to .gitignore

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📅 2026-02-01

🛠️ Site Improvements

• Newsletter Subscribe Page Update: Refreshed the subscribe page copy with clearer value proposition

  • New messaging targeting tech builders seeking critical perspectives
  • Link: Subscribe

• Doc Footer Newsletter CTA: Added newsletter promotion to all documentation pages

  • Appears at the bottom of every doc page after the content
  • Styled callout with email emoji and gradient background
  • Non-intrusive placement that catches readers when they finish