by As I’ve been doing this review for a few years now. I like to take the last day of the year and look back on what happened here, for both the site and the company. Tomorrow is the first day of the year, so let’s learn from the past and see how we can improve this year.
Not a lot of posts
Let’s start with the obvious: the publishing rate must be significantly improved. I managed to keep a nice pace over the years, and at my peak, I published daily. This was a lot and super demanding since I had (and still have) a full-time job doing other things, but I tried to make it work. The biggest strategy was to keep a buffer of articles where I had something to put on the website if I could not write one day for some reason.
The amount of work significantly increased, and I ran out of posts to publish and time to write them. Each post took (and still takes) me some time to write since I wanted to be as detailed as possible; I can’t write posts in a hurry, and carving time to write them became scarce.
I’m trying to learn from my mistakes and starting again to fill the backlog with articles so that they keep on coming, so please expect something a lot better next year.
The website was down for a few days
We can plan all we want, but when things have to go wrong, there’s nothing that we can do. I needed to migrate the website to a new hosting since the hosting costs were getting high, and I don’t want to put ads on the site, so the solution was to find a better hosting provider. For those who would like to know more about these things, I’m using Hostinger. I will write about my experience with it later, but moving to had its issues. I had to take down the website for a few hours while things were being pushed and work out some problems. All is good now, and the website is up and running. I’m sorry about that. Hopefully, I won’t need to do it for a while, but it was stressful to see the website down.
Aside from the costs, the upside is that the website is faster. I still have a few areas to improve, but speed is essential because no one likes slow sites (including myself).
Privacy
Even if I didn’t publish a lot, I made an effort to work on the website and remove some of the most privacy-invading things, like Google Analytics, for example. I’m using privacy-focused tools that provide the information I need without tracking you. I don’t need a lot of help, but I need to understand what people like so that I can write more about it.
Found other ingesting things to write about
I’ve been working and testing some nice tools, other than Power Automate, and I also want to write about them. There are a lot of nice tools out there, and a lot of them started to support automation by default, so even if there’s not a Power Automate connector, we can still automate the tasks efficiently.
Although this site looks like it’s Microsoft-centric, it’s not. It only reflects the places where I’ve focused my learning and had something to write about.
So please expect next year’s other tools and areas to enter the website.
Have some ideas
I’ve mentioned this in the past, but there are a few things that I want to test and integrate here on the website so that it’s not only a place of reference and learning but also experimentation.
I’m still finding time to develop them, but I’ll keep all of you posted here for any changes.
Final thoughts
So, as you can see, there’s a lot that will happen and a lot to improve, but 2025 looks like it will be super exciting for me and the company—I am looking forward to it!
I wish you all an excellent 2025!
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