Kottke.org

My traffic history: started in August 2004, up to 15,000 pageviews/10,000 visits/day at the 2013 peak, when blogs were at their zenith.

I'd get 10 or 20 comments/post, often.

Then a slow decline until January 2015 when I became clinically depressed and barely functional such that it took everything I had to post one sentence/day just to show proof of life.

I recovered completely in October 2016 and resumed multiple posts daily as is the case today.

Traffic when I started back in in late 2016 on a regular multiple posts/day basis was around 100 pageviews/day.

Current traffic is about 600 pageviews/day, with 5-10 comments/week.

Still, a couple times a year some popular blog/website picks up something I've posted and links to my post which results in a sudden spike to 3,000-8,000 pageviews that day, with a regression to the norm over the next week or two.

One thing I find interesting is that things I post today I would've posted back in 2004, and vice versa.

It's amusing to discover a couple times/year that something I'm about to feature or just featured appeared 10-15 years ago.

Occasionally a reader from back in the day will point this out, to my delight.

As best I can tell, the only popular one-person blogs that still update regularly and go back as far as I do are https://www.swiss-miss.com/ [March 2005] and https://kottke.org/ [1998].

I take pride in publishing daily including weekends and holidays, unlike pretty much every other blog/website.

Always something…

> The irony of doing this while covering their own faces

It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination. It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect. It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point. For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue—the greatest. * https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267

* Via: https://kottke.org/25/03/for-fascists-hypocrisy-is-a-virtue

> It's the party of rules for thee, not for me.

Hypocrisy is a virtue:

> It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

> It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

> It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect.

> It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.

> For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue — the greatest.

* https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267

* Via: https://kottke.org/25/03/for-fascists-hypocrisy-is-a-virtue

Can you imagine

You log into your Tumblr dashboard

All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as/WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed

Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it's all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.

This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

I see people worry that it'll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I hope he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.

Love this! Remember a thread from years ago on 1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999 giving the Fibonacci numbers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815839 — was even linked from https://kottke.org/15/07/fibonacci-sequence-hidden-in-ordinary-division-problem) — but that trick (using a fixed "base", in the terminology of this post) eventually runs into "overflow" issues (of the mathematical kind, not actual computer arithmetic overflow), so the idea here of using a base that varies with n is a really cool one.

I think the post says b=3^n and b=2^
{n+1} were "experimentally found" to be enough, which raises the question: can we say what's the smallest base that would work, for a given n?

> Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Mashable’s Matt Binder, and journalist Aaron Rupar

Once we get past this dust up about the scope of free speech, I hope we have the energy left to give the defintion of journalist the long overdue fix it needs. Being an editorialist is lower standard than journalist - or used to be.

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1

There's more to journalism than publishing. Not that MSNBC, Mashable or CNN would know that. Even the NYT is questionable but the debate isn't worth the distraction. Let's clean up the obvious messes first.