2025 in Numbers
The sister site probably had its best year, ever. Productivity-wise, both sites had a record year. The latest page in "new Tux Machines" is #39542 and the first of the year was #29186, which means we published over 10,000 pages in less than 12 months. In "new Techrights" the first of the year was #7326 and the latest is #13533, so we're looking at almost 6,500 by year's end.
However, number of pages - just like number of words - is a misleading measure, a poor yardstick. What was very good about this year is that we truly got "into the rhythm" of publishing, I sleep a lot more (rest does reduce the frequency of typos in my articles - I had underestimated how much difference extra sleep would make), and we're pretty much done with lawyers. Now we can focus on what lies ahead and spend time reading, writing, keeping things simple. This holiday I plan to finish reading the book sent my way to digest.
Next week and next year there won't be a "Slopwatch" because it's very hard to envision this hype making a comeback (to the point where we have sufficient "volume" for an installment). People are getting fed up with slop - to the point where Mozilla is running like headless chicken (opting out from slop is referred to by Mozilla as "kill switch"). As recently as this morning someone told me he was leaving Firefox and I saw some bloggers saying the same thing early this morning. LibreWolf is the way to go. Maybe next year LibreWolf can exceed 10 million active users. To LibreWolf, the development is "Linux-first" (unlike Mozilla, where it's "Linux-last").
If you still use Firefox, then take a quick look at LibreWolf and give it a try. █