Housekeeping and Productivity
THE end of a calendar year always means going through a list of technical tasks (it's about 40 lines long, but many tasks are deprecated). Some stuff must be done manually, as it hadn't been automated for the 'rare' occasion or "edge case" of new years. So I just finished all the new year's tasks (aside from feeding our fish and birds; that's a daily routine) and will aim to do an average of 20 pages/articles per day this year. It's doable.
Today we crossed 7,330 pages/articles in Techrights (since moving to the new system in late Sept. 2023) and 20 per day would be roughly the same in 12 months (7,300 in a year of 365 days, unlike last year's 366 days). Let's see if we can do in 12 months what we did in 15 months, even though number of pages isn't a good measure/yardstick (lengths vary). We've made a resolution to not do very short posts anymore and someone has just suggested using better anchor text in links too.
Our uptime last year was about 99.95%, but we think we can improve that a little. The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links. Sure, we can do both (we understand the topics we routinely write about), but we'd rather write more than practise. I've already programmed for over 30 years. My system administration skills date back to the late 90s. For some of us, including trusted associates, that goes back to the 80s if not earlier. This site should be primarily about publishing, not fighting against broken servers and broken code.
On we go! █