Words I wrote in 2024

People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people’s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn.

I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I’m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool that is Twitter, I’m not all that invested in either Mastodon or Bluesky. Or any other website, for that matter. I’m glad they’re there, but if they disappeared tomorrow, I’d carry on posting here on my own site.

I posted to my website over 850 times in 2024. Codestin Search App

I shared over 350 links. Codestin Search App

I posted over 400 notes. Codestin Search App

I published just one article.

And I wrote almost 100 blog posts here in my journal this year. Codestin Search App

Here are some cherry-picked highlights:

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Previously on this day

3 years ago I wrote 2022 in numbers

One year on adactio.com, complete with sparklines.

5 years ago I wrote 2020 in numbers

Numbers and sparklines.

5 years ago I wrote Books I read in 2020

Fiction and non-fiction, rated and reviewed.

5 years ago I wrote Words I wrote in 2020

Blogging through a very strange year.

6 years ago I wrote 2019 in numbers

The quantified site. With sparklines. And a map.

6 years ago I wrote Books I read in 2019

A good mix of (science) fiction and non-fiction.

7 years ago I wrote 2018 in numbers

The quantified site. With sparklines.

11 years ago I wrote It’s the end of the year as we know it.

And I feel…

15 years ago I wrote Twenty Ten

The year that was.

16 years ago I wrote The future of the tradition

Personally speaking.

22 years ago I wrote Game on

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