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Three years of gopher --------------------- Today is the third anniversary of this phlog! I'm glad I noticed it coming up before it passed - I managed the same feat for my first anniversary[1], but completely missed the second one. Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing with the first and second anniversaries of setting up the Zaibatsu! Seems to be a strength of mine. In these three years I've made 195 posts. Which sounds pretty substantial, but in my first anniversary post I reported that I'd made 108! That means I made more posts in my first year than in my second two combined. Curious about how my phlogging habits were changing, I whipped up this little ASCII graph showing the number of posts made per month for each month since I started (not including this present post): --------------------+ May, 2017: 10 posts |******************** Jun, 2017: 06 posts |************ Jul, 2017: 06 posts |************ Aug, 2017: 05 posts |********** Sep, 2017: 05 posts |********** Oct, 2017: 12 posts |************************ Nov, 2017: 04 posts |******** Dec, 2017: 02 posts |**** Jan, 2018: 18 posts |************************************ Feb, 2018: 14 posts |**************************** Mar, 2018: 14 posts |**************************** Apr, 2018: 11 posts |********************** May, 2018: 03 posts |****** Jun, 2018: 04 posts |******** Jul, 2018: 03 posts |****** Aug, 2018: 04 posts |******** Sep, 2018: 01 post |** Oct, 2018: 03 posts |****** Nov, 2018: 06 posts |************ Dec, 2018: 04 posts |******** Jan, 2019: 05 posts |********** Feb, 2019: 05 posts |********** Mar, 2019: 04 posts |******** Apr, 2019: 03 posts |****** May, 2019: 01 post |** Jun, 2019: 15 posts |****************************** Jul, 2019: 00 posts | Aug, 2019: 06 posts |************ Sep, 2019: 06 posts |************ Oct, 2019: 06 posts |************ Nov, 2019: 00 posts | Dec, 2019: 00 posts | Jan, 2020: 02 posts |**** Feb, 2020: 00 posts | Mar, 2020: 04 posts |******** Apr, 2020: 00 posts | May, 2020: 03 posts |****** --------------------+ There have been ups and downs over the years, but it's only relatively recently that I have started missing months out entirely. To some extent I can blame this on the move to Sweden, which happened in December last year after lots of preparation in November. But there's something else to consider, too. That big ol' spike of activity last June corresponds to the birth of the Gemini project, and tellingly the first empty month appears right after it. I'm hoping I can turn this trend around in the coming year and phlog more regularly. I'm not sure I'll be able return to my first year levels again anytime soon; I remember those early days extremely fondly, but I was also putting almost all of my energy into phlogging then, without running a pubnix or developing a new protocol on the side. I *think* the other phloggers who were most active with me at that time are also a little less active these days than then, but maybe that's just something I tell myself... Back in my first anniversary post I noticed that I'd done a pretty bad job of sticking to my originally stated goal for this phlog, which was to "put some structure to various swirling thoughts I've been having for years on the state of the internet". I'm not sure that I've really managed to make things any more focussed. On the whole, I think I'm okay with this. That said, as of recently this phlog now exists in parallel with a series of "gemlogs" (Gemini logs[2]) on specific topics - one on cycling and a soon to be created one on photography (maybe one on music, too? What a rampage!). This means I'll be talking about those subjects less here. I definitely, sincerely want to keep this phlog alive alongside my attempts to establish Gemini, but I also *really* don't want it to become a "waste paper phlog" where I stick random, low-effort content. So I do intend to try to cultivate a slightly more narrow focus here. I'm not sure exactly what form that will take, but don't expect a radical departure from stuff I've written about previously! Looking forward to many more happy years in gopherspace! [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/a-year-of-gopher.txt [2] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/