It’s always fun looking back at things I’ve done in the past, especially if they’re neatly logged or visualised in some way. Robert Birming commented on the same feeling he gets when looking at his blog calendar, or pins on a map based on completed house inspections he’s done. Reading his post inspired me to finally write this one. The front page of my website has the recent activity from some of these logs: blogs I’ve written, anime I’ve watched and beer I’ve checked in. Their main goal is to have a quick view of what’s been going on in the last few weeks, but behind each panel is a history of data I can view to see how far I’ve come. Robert calls this being nowstalgic. It’s only lately that I’ve come to appreciate having a history at hand. I wouldn’t say I’m nostalgic, rather nowstalgic, but there’s a certain beauty in seeing the now in the context of the past. Posts written Writing blog posts here has been fun, researching various topics, dumping information down in a text editor,…
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