This post is a bit overdue, but here goes. There are 6310 posts on the site as of January 1, which doesn’t seem like a lot of new stuff this year. Strange. I will admit my cadence for posting was way down in 2024. I’ve found it hard to put time into reflective writing, so a lot of what I’ve posted has been shorter reactions about things I’ve seen or recaps of things I’ve done. But it’s still a good feeling to have a thought, write it down, go back and edit it into something worthwhile, and post it. Writing something—anything—is good for the brain, and it’s exercise I like to keep doing.

Here’s the post category count total for 2024.

Here’s the monthly post count to date. As with 2023, the overall trend is down a bit since a spike in 2019. The other big thing to note is that the plugin I was using to syndicate the Scout blog suddenly decided to implode—the formatting from those posts got completely mangled to the point where it wasn’t worth the time to fix every one, so I shut the syndication off. That brought the overall count way down because I’ve been posting progress over there pretty religiously every week or so.