2021 in numbers

I posted to adactio.com 968 times in 2021.

That’s considerably less than 2020 or 2019. Not sure why.

March was the busiest month with 118 posts.

I published:

• 4 articles,
• 99 blog posts,
• 397 links, and
• 468 notes.

Those notes include 170 photos and 162 replies.

Elsewhere in 2021 I published two seasons of the Clearleft podcast (12 episodes), and I wrote the 15 modules that comprise a course on responsive design on web.dev.

Most of my speaking engagements in 2021 were online though I did manage a little bit of travel in between COVID waves.

My travel map for the year includes one transatlantic trip: Christmas in Arizona, where I’m writing this end-of-year wrap-up before getting back on a plane to England tomorrow, Omicron willing.

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.