It's been a while since we've run this little snippet, so let's see what we get!
$ find archive/ -name "*.md"|xargs -I {} cat {} | wc -w
124582
That means that there's roughly 124,582 total words written on this blog, not bad! That means I've managed to increase the total word count on this blog by nearly 24% in two years.
I'm not going for word count here, but it's still an interesting metric mostly because I post so much less frequently than I used to. That realization lead me to a much more interesting question about the overall length of individual blog posts over time. I posted the preliminary results over on Mastodon where I also discussed my reasoning behind the obvious trend of post length increasing over time.
In general, my posts get longer as time goes on, and you can see that even more clearly in this chart which groups posts by the year they were
The general trend for a given post's word count had been slightly upward for a long time, but the trend seems to take off in 2021 (with a huge dip in 2023 due to a lot of quick project posts). 2024 however is the clear outlier.
Of course the early days of this blog were a huge outlier as well, but that's another topic. Excluding the early days, things are trending up.*
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