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
       
 (HTM) I've blogged for 99 consecutive days
 (DIR) An attempt at #100DaysToOffload
 (HTM) Already achieved that this year
 (HTM) Kicking off my first sabbatical
 (HTM) I've mostly filled it with voluntary work and travel
 (HTM) Posting a daily photo of my bleppy dog for the month of September Bleptember
 (HTM) My copious checkin logs
 (HTM) Inspired by Clayton Errington
 (HTM) Jetpack
 (HTM) My personal Mastodon account
 (HTM) I consider myself to be the primary audience for my blog
 (DIR) I don't collect any webstats