Andrew Baker's Latest Blog Posts - Cloud, AI and Banking

Artificial Intelligence 08 Mar 2026 👁 96 views

91 Free AI WordPress SEO Plugin: CloudScale vs Yoast & Rank Math

1. Introduction Download the plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer/ S3 download (updated frequently): https://andrewninjawordpress.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer.zip For more than a decade the WordPress SEO landscape has been dominated by a small group of plugins. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO have collectively powered millions of sites and shaped how authors think about optimisation. These plugins are […]

Artificial Intelligence 06 Mar 2026 👁 70 views

92 SEO and AEO Page Audit Script: A Technical Guide

Search engines no longer operate alone. Your content is now consumed byGoogle, Bing, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and dozens of otherAI driven systems that crawl the web and extract answers. Classic SEO focuses on ranking. Modern discovery also requires AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) which focuses on being understood and extracted by AI systems. A marketing […]

Artificial Intelligence 06 Mar 2026 👁 2.1k views

93 Capitec Pulse: The Engineering Behind Real-Time AI at Scale

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…

Internet 05 Mar 2026 👁 366 views

94 Fix Thumbnail Previews on WhatsApp, LinkedIn & X (Guide)

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.…

Public Cloud 03 Mar 2026 👁 278 views

95 Predict EBS and RDS IOPS Saturation Before It Breaks

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…

Artificial Intelligence 02 Mar 2026 👁 200 views

96 Chrome MCP for Claude Desktop: Install in One Script

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 […]

Macbooks 02 Mar 2026 👁 100 views

97 Shift+Click Dock Icon to Cycle App Windows on macOS

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 […]

Open Source 02 Mar 2026 👁 78 views

98 WordPress Site Crashed After Plugin Update: Fix It Fast

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. […]

Banking 02 Mar 2026 👁 117 views

99 Why Core Banking Was a Bad Idea From the Start

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…

Databases 01 Mar 2026 👁 469 views

100 AWS IOPS Mismatch: Fix the Hidden Double Ceiling Bug

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…