By Andrew Baker, Chief Information Officer, Capitec Bank The Engineering Behind Capitec Pulse 1. Introduction I have had lots of questions about how we are “reading our clients minds”. This…
Read more →When you share a link on WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X, or Instagram and nothing appears except a bare URL, it feels broken in a way that is surprisingly hard to diagnose.…
Read more →Andrew Baker | March 2026 Companion article to: https://andrewbaker.ninja/2026/03/01/aws-iops-mismatch-fix-the-hidden-double-ceiling-bug/ Last week I published a script that scans your AWS estate and finds every EBS volume and RDS instance where your…
Read more →If you have ever sat there manually clicking through a UI, copying error messages, and pasting them into Claude just to get help debugging something, I have good news. There is a better way. Chrome MCP gives Claude Desktop direct access to your Chrome browser, allowing it to read the page, inspect the DOM, execute […]
Read more →If you run multiple Chrome profiles or keep several windows open per app, switching between them on macOS becomes irritating fast. Clicking the Dock icon only brings the app forward. Clicking it again does nothing useful. So you right click, scan the window list, and manually choose the one you want. It breaks flow and […]
Read more →You updated a plugin five minutes ago. Maybe it was a security patch. Maybe you were trying a new caching layer. You clicked “Update Now,” saw the progress bar fill, got the green tick, and moved on with your day. Now the site is down. Not partially down. Not slow. Gone. A blank white page. […]
Read more →A companion piece to Core Banking Is a Terrible Idea. It Always Was. It is 1972. A group of very serious men in very wide ties are gathered in a…
Read more →Andrew Baker, Chief Information Officer at Capitec Bank There is a class of AWS architecture mistake that is genuinely difficult to see. It does not appear in your cost explorer…
Read more →If you publish online, you should periodically search for yourself, not out of ego but out of discipline. The internet is an echo system, and if you do not measure where your ideas travel, you are operating blind. You want to know who is linking to you, who is quoting you, who is criticising you, […]
Read more →If you are doing 20 builds before finding the real issue, the problem isnot intelligence. It is workflow design. Claude defaults to probabilistic reasoning. It produces the most likelyexplanation. That…
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