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Tech

How Much Database Self-Hosted WordPress Analytics Actually Uses

September 22, 2026

The objection to self-hosted analytics is always the same: it puts the data in your database, and databases get slow, and backups get big. It is …

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Tech

WordPress Analytics Without a Cookie Banner: What You Can Actually Skip

September 22, 2026

Most posts about cookieless analytics never quote the rule that produces the banner. It decides the answer, so start there. The banner on your site doesn’t …

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Tech

Your WordPress Analytics Is Counting AI Crawlers as Readers

September 22, 2026

Over three days in September, AI crawlers made 4,058 requests to my site. In the same three days they sent 7 readers back. Googlebot and the …

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Tech

How to Move Your Google Analytics History Into WordPress Before You Delete It

September 21, 2026

Installing a WordPress analytics plugin takes two minutes. What stops people is the four years of history sitting in Google Analytics that the new plugin knows …

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Tech

Koko vs Burst vs Independent Analytics, and the One I Built

September 19, 2026

I build one of the four plugins below. Vireo Analytics is mine, it’s the newest and smallest of them by a wide margin, and you should …

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Barcelona & Expat Life

How to Register With Portugal’s SNS, and What It Actually Covers

September 18, 2026

Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisbon. Photo by RickMorais, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portugal’s Serviço Nacional de Saúde is residence-based, not contribution-based. You don’t buy into …

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Barcelona & Expat Life

Private Health Insurance in Portugal: The Gaps That Matter Most

September 17, 2026

Health insurance in Portugal gets sold on two things: the monthly premium and the size of the provider network. Both are easy to compare, and neither …

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Tech

Google Analytics Alternatives for WordPress

September 17, 2026

Most people looking for this have already decided. The cookie banner, the sampling, the interface that needs a course to operate, or a legal team asking …

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Barcelona & Expat Life

Moving Country With N26: What Changes, What Stays, and the Italy Exception

September 12, 2026

Moving to another European country while keeping your N26 account sounds like it should be an address change and nothing more. It largely is, but not …

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Essays

The Midlife Squeeze: Peak Earnings, Peak Family Demands

September 11, 2026

A 69-year-old posted the five things he’d tell his 49-year-old self, and the list is a good one. Money can be replaced and time can’t. Your …

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Business

Business Moats: What Actually Keeps Competitors Out

September 8, 2026

Being good at something buys you about a year. After that it’s been copied, and whatever keeps customers paying has to be something other than quality. …

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Health & Fitness

The Sunscreen Rules Worth Following (and the Ones to Ignore)

September 8, 2026

The number on a sunscreen bottle measures how well it stops you burning. It tells you almost nothing about the radiation that ages your skin. That …

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