For my own sanity, I figured it is worth documenting the history of this site every year. So...let's do that!

This site launched this year on November 23, so not a lot has happened.

From a development standpoint, bits were a big addition. It required rewriting the search page, but I'm glad I did that because the old code was awful.

• November 23: Kybercode launched
• November 26: Bits launched

The site launched with 13 posts: 10 articles and 3 shared articles. No bits, as they came later.

A little over a month since day one, we're now sitting at 20 posts, including:

• 14 articles
• 3 shared articles
• 3 bits

Personally, my favorite posts this year are:

• How To Automate Open Graph Images With Eleventy
• To Scroll, To Stick, Or To Stay: Sidebars
• Deprecated HTML Elements
• A Domain is a Subscription You Can't Cancel
• How to Make a Static Code Demo Component Like CodePen in Eleventy

A Domain is a Subscription You Can't Cancel is probably my favorite. There's a lot of nuance in a subject like this but I feel I argued my point at least decently well.

I also really like the guides, but they're hard to produce consistently because I only write them when I learn something that can't be covered in a bit.

And my non-programming projects have been taking priority lately. Which honestly explains the lack of content on this site in general. But at the same time, 20 posts in 40 days averages out to a post every two days. Although I will admit the large bulk of these came out on launch day.

As of now, this site doesn't track analytics. I developed this site with a privacy-first approach, so no data about users of this site is collected. So it's impossible to determine Kybercode's exact number of users.

Google says we've received a whopping 10 clicks from Google Search since launching this site. A good chunk (if not all) of those are probably from me, so I think it's safe to say we're not doing great in that department.

But this site has been live for only a little over a month and growth tends to be exponential. So perhaps this will increase in the coming months.

That being said, I haven't done a great job in the advertising sector, i.e. promoting this site on social media. I really don't like shoving stuff down people's throats.

Maybe implementing something like Webmentions could help. That way, when I respond to another article, they can get alerted of Kybercode's existence. And perhaps reply on their own site. And perhaps get a good discussion going.

As good as Google Search is, I think I would much prefer users to come from people talking about this site, like by replying to our posts.

Let's sort these based on priority:

1. Pretty-please: 80 new posts. This would put us at 100 total posts.
2. Would be cool: 10,000 clicks from Google Search. Since Kybercode doesn't track users, we have to go off Google Search clicks instead. I think this is doable, assuming exponential growth.
3. A longshot: at least one other person replying to one of our posts on their own blog. It would also be cool if they could send us an email letting us know! I think discussion website-to-website is so much cooler than user-to-user on a corporate social media platform.

Thank you, kind user of the web, for stumbling upon this small site! If you want, let me know how you made it here!