Although not an immense milestone by most blogs estimation (especially the professional blogs which pay you by the post), I think 1300 posts on ‘Kode is a significant achievement to sit back and take stock of. 1300 posts is roughly 216 posts per year, which is a little over 1 post every two days for the past six years. Truth is, there have been some pretty busy days and some very quiet days (nay months) over the years but overall there has been a consistent output of ideas, thoughts, critism and links over the years.

Changes

Even with the rise of twitter, I've still managed to keep this website alive. The truth is using it as an extended bookmarking tool has kept it fresh and alive in my mind and effectively kept the site relevant. See many of my recent posts (in the past year or so) could have easily been covered as tweets. The thing is I love my site. I like using it as a tool to communicate my ideas.

However the biggest change I’ve made here this year is removed comments. Comments were really sporadic in general, and the only thing I could count on was bloody spam. Getting rid of the spam has been great, but of course it’s also meant that if in fact I wanted to have a discussion with anyone then it’d have to come from an email, or on twitter.

Design

On the design aspect of things, I've never been more happy with the general look of the website than I am now. It's like 5 years of experimentation have brought me to this site. In many respects it's as minimal as the very first iteration of the site. The truth is the site doesn't have any wow factors, no drawings, no clever javascript, nothing of the sort. What it lacks in those bells and whistles, I feel it makes up in form and function. Refined design.

Future

Obviously no idea what the future will hold, but it'll involve a lot more art coming onto the site. I've been drawing more this year than I have,....well ever. Obviously my biggest concern is finding a solution that actually works for me as well as Asaph and Habari have this year.