2019 in numbers

I posted to adactio.com 1,600 times in 2019:

• 3 articles (2 conference talk transcripts and 1 interview),
• 103 blog posts,
• 617 links,
• 877 notes.

In amongst those notes were:

• 137 check ins,
• 26 books,
• 31 destinations (in 13 countries),
• 363 photos.

If you like, you can watch all that activity plotted on a map.

Away from this website in 2019:

• I made 1,054 contributions on Github,
• I huffduffed 231 pieces of audio,
• I sent out 26 Clearleft newsletters,
• I spoke at 23 events, and
• I organised 1 conference.

Terence Eden’s Blog

A blog post can be a plain text document uploaded to a server. It can be an image hosted on a social network. It can be a voice note shared with your friends.

Title, dates, comments, links, and text are all optional.

No one is policing this.

Robin Rendle — Good and useful writing

The most important lesson that blogging taught me is that writing is for thinking first, communication last.

WriteFreely

I hadn’t come across this before: a barebones blogging tool with built-in fediverse support—neat!

“You can be a carpenter this time around.” – Lucy Bellwood

A personal website is a lovely thing. Nobody will buy this platform and use it as their personal plaything. No advertisers will boycott and send me scrambling to produce different content. No seed funding will run out overnight.

Word Persons and Web Persons · roytang.net

This resonates with me.