25 Blog Posts Later...

When I started this blog, my first post reminisced on past blogs I started and abandoned, and at the time I hoped that this time would be different. The first year had 4 posts starting in September, which comes to a decent post per month, even if half the posts were just talking about the blog itself.

But in 2024 I really faltered, having written only one post the whole year. There were a lot of missed opportunities to talk about the Minecraft mods I had been developing, the Modfest events I participated in, and the fact that I was promoted to a staff position at Modfest to assist with running the event.

As the new year rolled around, I wanted to change that track record and get back to blogging, starting with my 2024 Retrospective. At the time I started going to college for a master’s degree, which unbeknowst to me would hit me like a cement truck very soon. * Subtle forshadowing… A month later Kett motivated me to write a blog post about anything, so I talked about how type erasure is stupid.

And then the metaphorical cement truck hit me.

Close to half a year went by before I wrote another blog post, and I wasn’t sure if I’d get to write more before the end of the year turned up. I felt down about a lot of things happening to me at the time, the on-going dumpster fire of a game dev market especially.

But then on August 19th, I wrote a new blog post titled YouTube Is Better With RSS. It took me two days to write, and I was really happy with sharing this newfound knowledge. The next day I wrote a simple blog post about the apps I use. And then I wrote another blog post, and then another blog post.

And before I knew it, I’ve been writing a blog post every day since then, with this post marking the 25th blog post. I’ve written 4 times as many blog posts this year as I have the first two years, isn’t that crazy? And I’m just going to keep writing more blog posts every day until I run out of ideas. * I’ve got 18 ideas in my ideas text file as of this writing.

A week ago I was checking my Nginx access logs to see how many people are regularly pinging my RSS feed. I found 4 visitors, and I only know who two of those are. It’s not a lot, but yet it means a lot to me that there are people out there that I don’t personally know, who want to read what I write. So thank you for coming around

I hope the blog posts every day hasn’t been too much for you guys :P