400 Days To Offload

I have completed the challenge yet again, this is the fourth time! Honestly crazy, but at this point, not really surprising.

I have once again, managed to reach the goal of 100 posts in one year, this time I managed to do so in record time! and with a pretty awesome consistency compared to previous years.

I didn’t really expect I would be able to do this so quickly, but I guess that all the changes going on in my life have made this task easier.

Hyde keeps blaming weeknotes—he’s just jealous that I finally managed to beat him—and I guess it kinda makes sense. Except that I’ve honestly poured much more words into them than regular blog posts would have in the past. If I didn’t write weeknotes, I would have even more time to type even two blog posts for each! One could say that writing weeknotes handicapped my performance. 😉

Alas, I have divided the amount of posts for each of those categories that “write themselves” or that were a given, I guess:

That makes for 50 of my posts being somewhat “automatic”, something I tasked myself with writing, or where I followed a template or answered a set of questions, instead of doing something more “organic”, I guess.

But I also really think I’ve done some of my most inspired, out of nowhere, thoughtful posts in a while. With a few replies and links to other people’s blogposts, and some relatively original, interesting ideas and experiences that I decided to share.

Month by month, weeknotes and reviews were commonplace, sometimes even one after another, when a week didn’t give me a lot of time to write something different, and the commitment with my weeknotes took over instead.

January is probably the “weakest” when it comes to “original” content. However, I think that all of those recaps were pretty fun, and seeing how my weeknotes started wasn’t too bad either, I only wrote about having a lot to write about, without a lot of more thought-out stuff.

February was also a bit weak, with not a lot separating each weeknote, other than a quick post about gaming on my laptop and storage management. A book review, a game review and the usual.

March was actually much busier! I wrote about going outside, some random skills you should learn, and even confessed my sins as a FOSS enthusiast. Besides those rambles, I wrote some memories, such as how I got my first console or how Google used to be kinda cool.

I unsubscribed from Spotify and went on a deep dive sharing how I am a fake fan of many things. It was quite a fruitful month, I’d like to mention—even if it was one of the “automatic” ones—that I really liked the effort I put into my delayed anime recap for 2024.

April remained strong, with one of the most boosted and replied to blog posts in a while: Blogging Expectations. I shared my experience switching to Arch, and what’s on my phone storage, updating my default apps list as well. One of my favorites though has to be my Casio AE-1200 review, if only because of the title for it!

In May, I started one of my favorite series, which is currently on hiatus: Videogame Franchises where I wrote about some of the game series I’ve followed and played throughout my life! There are still some heavy-hitters I need to write about, one of these days.

I also wrote what could be my favorite post of this year’s challenge: The constant need for a source of entertainment which also had a lot of visibility on the fediverse, and some great replies via email too, I loved all the engagement it got, and I wrote about that too!. I also shared my struggles organizing my feeds and about the music that plays in my head.

When June arrived, It was filled with game and book reviews! And I wrote another ramble about how I used to take notes, a memory/response about how time flies, and another favorite of mine, a ramble about why not having to work should be the goal, but isn’t because the world is a mess.

Gotta point out I also did a readership survey and wrote my review of an incredible game, 1000xRESIST, which you should play.

In July, I finally switched things up a bit, and now that I am giving a title to my weeknotes, it somehow makes it feel more like a blog post instead of a template! Still, I have shared a few posts, such as how Casio’s website failed me, an updated What’s on my Phone and another post that got a few responses, about my struggles with consumerism.

I don’t plan to slow down my pace for the rest of the year, but I don’t think I’ll do another 100 posts before it ends, so, if I participate it’ll be at the start of 2026, if all goes well.

Thanks for reading my website! I really enjoyed the engagement and the conversations around many of my posts, I’ve discovered quite a lot of other bloggers and members of the small web, and made quite a few new connections and friendships.

Now I only need to find what hashtag to use for the rest of my blogposts this year!

This is day 100 of #100DaysToOffload