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Cover reading 'Crawl the sites that block crawlers', with the steps relay, extension, your profile and crawl.

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Building an SEO crawler that borrows my own Chrome

Bot protection does not break a crawl loudly. It returns a clean report with a third of the site missing. Krawlify fixes that by driving the browser I am already signed in to, over the standard DevTools Protocol, in tabs it opens for itself.

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Cover reading 'Shipping WordPress from a pipeline', with the steps build, test, migrate, cutover and verify.

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Deploying WordPress from GitLab CI/CD

Promoting a staging database to production without corrupting serialised data, cutting DNS over through the Cloudflare API, and putting both back when the smoke test fails.

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Cover reading 'Training with a model in the loop' over a heart-rate trace, with the steps sync, analyse, plan and adapt.

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How I optimise my workouts with AI and Garmin MCP

A morning n8n run that reads my last two weeks of lifting through a Garmin MCP server, plans the next strength session, and writes it back into Garmin Connect so it is on the watch before I get to the gym.

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Cover reading 'Tokens, not passwords' beside a padlock, with the steps login, ticket, oauth1 and oauth2.

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Fixing Garmin MCP auth: extracting OAuth tokens with Node

Garmin login cannot be scripted reliably, so I stopped trying. A Playwright window, one service ticket and two OAuth exchanges produce tokens that every garth-based tool already knows how to read, and no password ends up in a config file.

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