Tag: meta blogging

Going for a Record

I’ll go months and not post anything on this blog – and then post a ton as I work through a project or just need to get something off my chest.  There’s usually an uptick around the time Maker Faire applications are opened and most years I have a few dozen posts with the notable exception of 2020.1

Publishing my old blog posts might get me in striking distance of a personal best from February of 2010 of 106 posts. 2  They weren’t all bangers.  Here’s the last one from that month – a haiku:

Clear PLA sits
Mendel languishes alone
Plastruder hates corn

MakerBlock – 02/28/2010

Beating 106 blog posts this month seems entirely possible.  Even if I try to beat my record and fail, I’m already way ahead of my usual blog post count.  MakerFaire is coming up, the kids are out of school, and, as always, I’m working on a bunch of random projects.  Right now I’m at 28 posts for the month of June 2026.  I’ve got 20 more days in the month to go, 293 unpublished draft posts of varying degree and quality, fresh page in my notebook, a strong internet connection, a quarter tank of gas, and a credit card.

Let’s fucking go.

  1. Just the one!  I can’t imagine what was going on in the world back then… [↩]
  2. With so many posts during that month, it’s almost unbelievable that 8 of my unpublished posts were from February 2010! [↩]

Should I pace myself?

This blog is as much for me as it is for anyone else. 1  When something occurs to me, I type it up and click “Publish.”  However, this means I’ll go days without a single post and then have a flurry of half a dozen posts.  Some of my posts languish in draft form, half-notes, jottings of ideas, etc. 2

Help me out here.  What’s better – if I pace my posts – say one a day – or just have them published as they occur to me with random gaps?

As a loyal reader, what do you prefer?  Come now, both of you can chime in.  <crickets>  Bueller?

  1. Well, the ads for other people.  I’m not allowed to click on them. [↩]
  2. Seriously, though – how in the hell did I write more than 100 posts in February??? [↩]
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