Two years ago, I started my wikiblogardenite. Let’s do a recap of year number two.
For the second year in a row, the most viewed post was Just.
The second most viewed post was Dialogues on natural code: The release of the paper I wrote with Dave Ackley.
And in third place, it was Splash, my first explainable.
The posts about being trans continued, and they continued to be some of my most viewed posts, the clear winner being The pros and cons of being trans*.
I still haven’t given you a full Glimpse of feeling trans but I did anger a few people with my thoughts on Normal gender feelings.
I also wrapped up the Lu loo tales for the second time with Let me use the loo.
I continued to write stupid poems, with Do stupid things scoring surprisingly highly.
My parents put Yourself in a frame and gave it to me as a gift.
My posts have definitely got angrier and more sweary, with The internet can be good scoring a new personal best for vulgarity.
But maybe that’s okay because, after all, Sometimes rage is the right response.
The idiosyncrasies of my wikiblogardenite have continued / evolved with the—
I started using Slashes / straying off-topic partway through a post because Everything in our life is hierarchical, even blog posts. Or are they? Because I’ve also participated in a lot of pastagang blog posts this year.
I infamously didn’t write Origins of “let code die” but I did write By pastagang. Or did I?
In pastagang, I think I enjoy being a documentarian (is that a word?). I like watching it all happen and cheering it all on and recording what I see. I feel like a mega-fan writing up a fan wiki in scarily high detail. In that sense, I enjoy writing posts like All the flok clients and Mantras that are essentially big lists. I love a big list.
I now write most of my blog posts as threads on mastodon. I use my tool, Todepond Go to turn it into a blog post. I really think this is The best way to write a blog post because it lets me be extremely live and open.
I am an unreliable narrator though and I often make mistakes, so being this live and open can have harmful effects. Dictatorship software was quite badly received, which was bad for various reasons. However, I did learn a lot from it and it prepared me well for my talk at ADC a week or so later, which went down well. Was it worth it? I don’t know. I think time will tell.
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