99 DAYS OF BLOGGING
2024-12-01
With this post, for the first time ever (Given that I've been blogging for
over 26 years, that I'm still finding noteworthy blogging "firsts" is pretty
cool, I think), I've blogged for 99 consecutive days! (My previous record
"streak" was only 37 days, so there's quite a leap there.)
IMG Calendar showing Sunday 25 August through Sunday 1 December inclusive, with a coloured "spot" on each day with a size corresponding to the number of posts made on that day, broken into a pie chart showing the proportion of different post kinds.
* Kicking off my first sabbatical gave me lots of free time, and although I've
mostly filled it with voluntary work and travel, there's been a
greater-than-usual amount of blogging (often about those two things!) too.
* Posting a daily photo of my bleppy dog for the month of September Bleptember
provided an early boost.
* Travel's given me more opportunity for geocaching (and, this last week,
geohashing), as reflected in my copious checkin logs for that period.
* Earlier this year, inspired by Clayton Errington, I came up with a process
to streamline my mobile blogging "flow" (My site's backed by WordPress, but
the mobile wp-admin isn't the best and my site's so-customised that apps like
Jetpack mangle my metadata.). I now use a custom Progressive Web App to
provide a better interface for quickly posting on-the-move to one or both of
this blog and my personal Mastodon account, which I tested heavily during
Bleptember.
Previous long streaks have sometimes been aided by pre-writing posts in bulk
and then scheduling them to come out one-a-day (As you might now, I consider
myself to be the primary audience for my blog: everybody else comes second.
That's why I don't collect any webstats! When I used to collect webstats, I
would sometimes pre-write and "schedule" posts, but without them it just feels
pointless to do so!). I mostly don't do that any more: when a post is "ready",
it gets published.
I didn't want to make a "this is my 100th day of consecutive blogging" on the
100th day. That attaches too much weight to the nice round number. But I
wanted to post to acknowledge that I'm going to make it to 100 days of
consecutive blogging... so long as I can think of something worth saying
tomorrow. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.
LINKS
HTML I've blogged for 99 consecutive days
DIR An attempt at #100DaysToOffload
HTML Already achieved that this year
HTML Kicking off my first sabbatical
HTML I've mostly filled it with voluntary work and travel
HTML Posting a daily photo of my bleppy dog for the month of September Bleptember
HTML My copious checkin logs
HTML Inspired by Clayton Errington
HTML Jetpack
HTML My personal Mastodon account
HTML I consider myself to be the primary audience for my blog
DIR I don't collect any webstats