20 Years of Blogging

Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago. It was about client side JavaScript to automatically (albeit blindly) select the "active" navigation. Ironically, I'd probably do this on the server side these days. Admittedly, it's imported from my prior blog and the first time I posted on on this domain was in September, but the post in June counts! But then, my domain was registered a full year before on 13 June 2025 (which neither myself, nor the Internet Archive can remember what was on it!). I could probably pull up the best hits based on traffic (though my Google analytics were stripped years ago, so I'm not sure how I'd work it out). But I'm not sure the highest traffic really represents the hits to me. Instead, I'm going to reflect on the last two decades of posts and comment on how what I wrote about has changed. In the first couple of years of my blog, I was posting regularly throughout the month. Even publishing twice a day. The posts…