Blogstory
AuguStory, the story of your blog by Robert Birming encourages sharing the story of our blog. Chloe at For No One has put together some great additional prompts and I've enjoyed stories by Sylvia and Becky at Online Goddess.
My blogging story is not that interesting - while I've been banging around making sites since 1999 I've not consistently had a blog. Different projects have come and gone. Personal blogs, politics, local stuff, TV shows, a game, courses I was doing, on Diaryland, Blogger, Wordpress of course, Tumblr.
What got this iteration going was a few days of getting enthused about the indieweb. It was early February and it was miserable and grey and I needed something fun and creative. I love writing, it is how I think, and while I write fiction every day I was a bit stalled on some of those projects and was interested in a different kind of outlet.
The first thing I wrote here, in Trying something, was
Trying something a little weird for the little and weird internet. The web used to be fun. And I used to like that.
What I could not imagine was how weird and fun this was going to be.
A little blog history
The first post was on 4th February 2025 and I posted four times that month. In May were the first batches of consecutive-day posting - twice I posted four days in a row. In June I posted the first monthlog and did some title trades.
August 2025 is when I look back and think something changed. I found my rhythm a bit more. August also had my first proper links roundup, which is later than I would have guessed. The hundredth post came in September. In October I made a bunch of pages. I ended the year consistently blogging most days.
Into 2026 and at the end of February I noted there were 206 posts. In May I went a bit CSS wild. July contained my longest run yet: 15 consecutive days. Hopefully I'll be breaking that this month with Blaugust.
Related posts of mine:
- Looking back on posts 26th June 2026
- Blogging lessons 25th June 2026
- Too much fun with CSS 19th May 2026
- Things I want to do with my website 26th March 2026
- Thirty years on the web 27th October 2025
- also the colophon and sitemap
A table of posts-per-month of interest only to me.
| February 2025 | 4 |
| March 2025 | 4 |
| April 2025 | 8 |
| May 2025 | 15 |
| June 2025 | 12 |
| July 2025 | 21 |
| August 2025 | 21 |
| September 2025 | 22 |
| October 2025 | 21 |
| November 2025 | 18 |
| December 2025 | 19 |
| January 2026 | 21 |
| February 2026 | 20 |
| March 2026 | 23 |
| April 2026 | 24 |
| May 2026 | 26 |
| June 2026 | 24 |
| July 2026 | 26 |
The internet can be, still is, little and weird and fun. And I love that.