Week 31 — 48 hours of work, and one thing finished end to end

My biggest work week on record: 48 hours. The only thing I finished end to end was a free newsletter.

From the archive: my week of 27 Jul – 2 Aug 2026, written up later from my notes. Short version.

48h

my biggest work week on record

batches of fixes on a dental group's site, each checked live

14→31

pages a solar company's site now lists for Google

1.1 GB

error log quietly filling my florist's server. Now silent.

No phone photo this week, so here's what I shipped: Sabah This Week on SabahGuide, as it looks today.

Wins

SabahGuide

Sabah This Week #005 sent

The fact-check dropped 8 items and corrected 10 more before it went out. Sabah This Week →

Happy Florist

A free chat assistant

Switched the shop's AI assistant to our own AI key. The AI replies now cost nothing extra, so the credit lasts about two years instead of four months. Happy Florist →

Bingo

A new website client said yes

Proposal approved, deposit invoice and onboarding questions sent the same week. Bingo →

Client

A solar explainer, live

A plain-English article on how solar savings work in Sabah, live on a solar company's site. Read it →

What broke, and how I fixed it

A log that kept growing

BrokeMy florist site's error log had reached 1.1 GB, growing about 2.7 GB a month.

FixA small fix silenced the noisy messages. The log dropped to zero and stayed there in testing.

Do thisAsk your host how big your error log is. A quiet site can still be filling its disk.

AI images with fake brands

BrokeAI-made images on a client's site showed made-up brand names, and one showed a competitor's.

FixSwapped them for clean images already on the site, and rebuilt the share cards with the real logo.

Do thisCheck every AI image at full size before it goes live.

Automation that needed my laptop awake

BrokeSabahGuide's weekly events scan kept failing.

FixIt only ran when my Mac was awake. For now, it runs by hand every Wednesday.

Do thisIf an automation needs your laptop on, it isn't automated yet.

Where my week went

48 hourscalendar, Sun–Sat

41% building new things59% client work and admin

Bingo systems and content12.3h

A dental group4.4h

Happy Florist3.7h

SabahGuide2.8h

Bingo admin2.5h

Everything else22.4h

If you do one thing this week

Ask your web host: "How big is our error log, and is anything filling it?"

That was my week. How was yours? Tell me on LinkedIn or in the comments on Substack.