Happy New Year and 2025 Review

Welcome to 2026!

In a world full of AI generated content I am very proud that none of the content here on this blog will be AI generated. Mostly because here is my personal notebook of how to do stuff. I still refer back to my first posts from April 2019 on writing SVG. That copy button in code blocks I sorted for my own sanity.

In the 5+ years of writing this blog I’ve posted 128 posts, had 600k+ views, way too many spam comments and had a subscribe button which over 200 people clicked but never sent an email. I’m hoping this is my first post that will email out to subscribers. Apologies for not sending before and for those who had forgetten they subscribed 3 years ago.

Blog Activity in 2025

• 17 new posts
• 140k views

I was not as active as I’d like to have been in 2025. No good reasons but it gives me some new goals for 2026. I’m aiming for more regular posts, using tools so I’m not overwhelmed by spam comments.

The most popular post on this site is how to pull data from a Power BI dataset using Power Automate, it got 10% of last years views. The second place post was Power Automate to trigger a Fabric data pipeline. Just goes to show I should still do the Power Automate working with data stuff posts and add videos.

• https://hatfullofdata.blog/power-automate-get-data-from-a-power-bi-dataset/
• https://hatfullofdata.blog/trigger-microsoft-fabric-data-pipeline/

YouTube Activity in 2025

2025 was also not a good year for video creation for me. I only made 3 videos! Amazingly I got 170k views and gained 800+ subscribers. Another goal for me to improve on video creation and maybe get over that 10k subscibers. Lets see what we can do. For those who haven’t subscribed here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/c/hatfullofdata123

Do let me know if there are videos you think I should do.

Speaking

I had a fun year of going to conferences and user groups. It is my second family of speakers and regular attendees and I am incredibly grateful to those who volunteer to make these events happen. From a user group with only 3 attendees to a confrence hall with 100 people in it, I love the buzz of sharing knowledge and being a community.

In May last year I started putting my PowerPoint decks on github with other resources to support sessions. If I’m honest its so I know where I’ve stored my decks when I need to refer to it for a future session or remember what I did last year! Here’s the link

https://github.com/HatFullOfData/Sessions

Looking Forward

There will be more blog posts, there will be more videos. I enjoy doing them, its helps my mental health. I already have conferences planned that I will be at, speaking or attending. (Love a conference that I just attend occasionally)

Here are a few of them, if you are going to be there, please come say hello.

• https://cloudtechtallinn.com/
• https://bizappssummit.eu
• https://eoepps.co.uk/
• https://sqlbits.com/
• https://commsverse.com/