mdlbear | Blogiversary: 12 years on DreamWidth (Reply)

I started this DreamWidth account twelve years ago today in 2010. (I started my LJ account in June of 2002, so there will be another blogiversary coming up in a couple of months.) I believe I started cross-posting around then, although for a while I continued doing quick posts on LJ for things like birthdays. Eventually I imported all of my LJ posts, so DreamWidth is the authoritative copy now.

By 2010 I had already been using ljupdate, an Emacs-based LJ client, for a couple of years; I started working on my current emacs/make/git system in late 2015 when DW switched to HTTPS and ljupdate stopped working. For all I know it might have been fixed by now, but I like my hack better. (You can find it in MakeStuff/blogging/ on GitHub; it's acquired a few features since I wrote the README. I should fix that. Real Soon Now(TM).)

Another thing I need to do RSN is fix the links in imported posts that still point back to other posts in LJ, and add "imported-from" links to the posts that don't have "crossposted-to" links.

I will refrain from boring you with statistics. In part that's because I don't have everything archived in one place. Yet. That's another thing I've been meaning to do for several years now. (The reason for things being scattered is another thing I won't bore you with. In this post.) And besides, I just found a problem with my word-counting program.