I looked at my WordPress dashboard and noticed that I was sitting at 999 Published posts, so I figured let's make post 1000 a retrospective!
I did some fancy AI-assisted SQL queries, and here's a year-by-year breakdown of the posts (before this one), including the number of posts per year, a running total, and a random post from each year.
| Year | Posts | Running total | Random post from the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 171 | 171 | Exam Study Begins |
| 2005 | 116 | 287 | Assessment, Clone Wars, and Evil Lucas |
| 2006 | 145 | 432 | tgif. REALLY tgif & Live Blogging |
| 2007 | 123 | 555 | Stop Calling it ‘Ice’!! |
| 2008 | 79 | 634 | Why We Need R Rated Games |
| 2009 | 60 | 694 | Firefox 3.5 |
| 2010 | 38 | 732 | The Final Stage Is Set |
| 2011 | 36 | 768 | The Movie Year |
| 2012 | 51 | 819 | Birthday Goals & BF3 |
| 2013 | 30 | 849 | External HDD Encryption |
| 2014 | 22 | 871 | Trying Out Online Backups |
| 2015 | 17 | 888 | Pebble: *Time* for a Sequel |
| 2016 | 24 | 912 | Star Wars: Rogue One (spoilers!) |
| 2017 | 12 | 924 | The Best and Worst of 2017 |
| 2018 | 9 | 933 | 5 Years as a Technical Writer |
| 2019 | 13 | 946 | Yoshi’s Crafted World |
| 2020 | 12 | 958 | Migrating to VS Code |
| 2021 | 6 | 964 | Using a Cheap(ish) Android Tablet as a Digital Photo Frame |
| 2022 | 7 | 971 | Getting COVID |
| 2023 | 8 | 979 | 2023: Year in Review |
| 2024 | 6 | 985 | 20 Years of Blogging! |
| 2025 | 6 | 991 | New NAS. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, Became a Hypocrite, and Bought Another Synology |
| 2026 | 8 | 999 | 2026 World Cup, US/FIFA Farces |
Other than seeing some cringey posts from the early 2000s, the count really shows how prolific I was in those earlier years, and how much it dropped off after working full-time for a few years (and again when we had kids!).
I got to 900 posts in the first ~11 years of the blog, and it's taken another ~11 years to get from 900 to 1000.