2023 in numbers
It’s time to begin, now count it in, five, six, seven, eight.
2024 in numbers
Seeing as I counted a few things last year, here are some of those same tables updated with values accrued over the last 12 months.
Posts
| Year | Articles | Notes | Photos | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 | 35 | 42 | 88 |
| 2023 | 23 | 38 | 50 | 111 |
| 2022 | 11 | 69 | 32 | 112 |
| 2021 | 4 | 47 | 77 | 128 |
| 2020 | 12 | 73 | 79 | 164 |
After a strong start to the year, motivated by all things IndieWeb, I found myself reluctant to post much at all in the second half of the year. My participation in Micro.blog’s photoblogging challenge in April contributed 30 posts, a third of the year’s total. Still unsure if this is a blip, or indicative of a trend away from publishing as much online.
Travel
| Year | Countries | Trips | Distance | Carbon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 15 | 8742 km | 287 kg |
| 2023 | 6 | 22 | 6439 km | 215 kg |
| 2022 | 6 | 13 | 8093 km | 263 kg |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 | 1624 km | 54 kg |
| 2020 | 8 | 7 | 4166 km | 136 kg |
Somehow I managed to travel to fewer places but over a greater distance. Much of this can be accounted for by separate trips to Germany and Austria; only my yearly trip to Amsterdam for CSS Day saw me venture elsewhere in Europe. Closer to home, two trips to Yorkshire and a wintery excursion to Inverness rounded out limited travel in 2024.
Events
| Year | Cinema | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | 14 | 20 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| 2022 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2021 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
Consistent with the year before. I’d like to attend more events and see more films this year; let’s see if I can push past 20.
Commits on GitHub
| Year | Commits |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10,112 |
| 2023 | 4087 |
| 2022 | 4295 |
| 2021 | 3050 |
| 2020 | 3324 |
This number perhaps best sums up 2024, although I’m not sure if the dramatic increase in commits takes into account the many obsessive compulsive rebases I made to maintain a clean commit history while rebuilding a prototype at work.
Activities on Strava
| Year | Walking | Cycling | Running | Swimming | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0h 56m | 0h 0m | 3h 26m | 2h 9m | 6h 31m |
| 2023 | 9h 4m | 0h 0m | 0h 0m | 3h 46m | 12h 50m |
| 2022 | 8h 32m | 4h 2m | 0h 0m | 6h 21m | 12h 34m |
| 2021 | 39h 4m | 20h 37m | 19h 50m | 0h 0m | 79h 31m |
| 2020 | 6h 14m | 13h 40m | 28h 16m | 0h 0m | 48h 10m |
Possibly a more accurate representation of exercise attempted, given 2023’s figures were skewed by a 2-day walk across the South Downs. But these figures don’t highlight a changed attitude to exercise I adopted in late October. I now regularly swim, run and weight train, so hopefully this year’s numbers will be comparable to those of the lockdown years.
Check-ins on Swarm
| Year | Check-ins |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 928 |
| 2023 | 1008 |
| 2022 | 941 |
| 2021 | 785 |
| 2020 | 623 |
Why do I persist with this? Should I stop?