Site Statistics

A behind-the-scenes look at every post on this site, generated fresh with every build.

Overview

First post: 02-01-2006. Latest post: 01-08-2026 20:08.

Growth over time

Rolling 12-month activity

Average words per post over time

Posts per year

Yearly breakdown

Top tags per year

Posting heatmap

Last 52 weeks, one cell per day.

Posts per month (all-time)

Posts per day of the week

33.5% of posts went out on a weekend, 66.5% on a weekday.

Posts by hour of day

Based on the 54 posts with a recorded publish time. Most posts are date-only.

Average posting time: 18.4:00. Earliest ever: 01:30. Latest ever: 23:59.

Category distribution

Category distribution by year

Categories over time

Most active category by decade

When the leading category changed

• 2007blog → snippets
• 2009snippets → software
• 2010software → tutorials
• 2012tutorials → software
• 2013software → tutorials
• 2016tutorials → articles
• 2018articles → blog
• 2019blog → snippets
• 2020snippets → blog
• 2021blog → articles
• 2022articles → blog
• 2024blog → tutorials
• 2025tutorials → blog

Post length distribution

Most used tags

Tag cloud

alpha ansible apache bash c++ cloud cpp debian dec development itanium linux monitoring openssl openstack openvms pdp python qml qt qt5 raspberry-pi security shell simh ssl tls ubuntu vax vms

Tag lifecycle

100.0% of posts carry at least one real tag. Average tag lifetime: 4.6 years.

Longest & shortest posts

Updates

"Updates" tracks how many already-published posts get revised in a given year.

Posts updated per year

Median post age: 10.1 years. Average: 9.5 years.

Milestones

• #1RET Metro ATB (02-01-2006)
• #25MagicProg: Magic the Gathering (RPG/TGC) Life Program (27-12-2011)
• #50Git-clean (08-11-2012)
• #100Set up a federated XMPP Chat Network with ejabberd, your own Google Talk Hangouts alternative (11-06-2013)
• #250IPSEC VPN on Ubuntu 15.10 with StrongSwan (20-12-2015)
• #500Leaf Node Monitoring v2024.02 released, autostart, ssl certificate expiry and minimize to tray (12-07-2024 22:30)

Word count milestones

• 50000OS X - Applescript to lock date and time preference panel to fix local sudo exploit (02-09-2013)
• 100000Arch Linux AUR PKGBUILD generate new checksums (29-12-2014)
• 200000Essential Monitoring checks (20-03-2018)
• 300000Run MS Teams on a coffee machine?!? (Or: Embedded Linux Framebuffer VNC client) (08-04-2021)
• 400000But can your calculator run Linux? (01-08-2026 20:08)

Blogiversaries

• 5yTether your Sonim XP3 phone with Linux (08-02-2011)
• 10yRecursively find all [installed] package dependencies (31-12-2015)
• 15yBash HTTP monitoring dashboard (27-12-2020)
• 20yA way to run Ansible 2.19 on old operating systems like Ubuntu 18.04 with working Apt (31-01-2026 23:08)

Timeline of firsts

• 2006-01-02First blog post: RET Metro ATB
• 2006-01-02First 1000-word post: RET Metro ATB
• 2006-01-02First 5000-word post: RET Metro Type T SG/2
• 2007-01-01First snippets post: Vim Cheatsheet
• 2007-11-29First post tagged "bash": Imagemagick thumbnailer
• 2008-04-09First tutorials post: Setting up Motion with FTP and Email! support
• 2008-04-09First post tagged "monitoring": Setting up Motion with FTP and Email! support
• 2009-05-18First software post: Clonezilla Backup Script v0.2
• 2010-01-01First post tagged "ubuntu": Debian packages clean up commands
• 2010-01-01First post tagged "python": NoPriv.py - Easy IMAP email backup to HTML archive.
• 2011-09-01First articles post: Chrome Extensions for Privacy, Adblocking and anti-tracking
• 2012-07-09First post tagged "linux": Small Operating Systems / Linux Distributions
• 2012-09-24First post tagged "openssl": Nagios plugin to check certificates on local file system
• 2013-01-23First post tagged "ssl": OpenSSL one liner to get expiry date from SSL Certificate of any website
• 2013-04-04First post tagged "apache": NGINX: Proxy folders to different root
• 2013-10-15First post tagged "cloud": Set up your own truly secure, encrypted and shared file synchronization, aka Dropbox clone
• 2015-01-05First post tagged "development": Shared Git repository over ssh for multiple users
• 2015-07-23First post tagged "dec": Running Adventure on the DEC PDP-8 with SIMH
• 2018-03-31First post tagged "openvms": My first OpenVMS
• 2019-06-07First post tagged "c++": C++ create and write to a CSV file
• 2021-02-25First post tagged "qt": QT / QML Signals and Slots with C++
• 2024-10-24First fiction post: The Adventure of the Missing Syscall: Error 38

Language

Most common word (excluding stop words): file

Links & media

Most referenced sources

Largest gallery: Bringing a Decade Old Bicycle Navigator Back to Life with Open Source Software (and DOOM) (19 images)

Recent posts

Date	Post
01-08-2026 20:08	But can your calculator run Linux?
18-07-2026 23:33	More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows!
05-07-2026 20:33	Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
10-04-2026 19:37	Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip!
31-01-2026 23:08	A way to run Ansible 2.19 on old operating systems like Ubuntu 18.04 with working Apt
20-11-2025 22:34	Finally, run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
25-07-2025 23:37	Bringing a Decade Old Bicycle Navigator Back to Life with Open Source Software (and DOOM)
14-05-2025 22:11	High Available Mosquitto MQTT on Kubernetes
19-04-2025 19:04	Leaf Node Monitoring v2025.01 released with Import/Export and Connectivity Check
25-03-2025 21:33	Fast MQTT logger (to syslog)

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