The Fool on the Hill: 365 posts

The Fool on the Hill: 365 posts

By: Simon Brooke :: 15 June 2025

Checking my blog yesterday, I noticed that I had published 365 posts, one for every day of the year. Which, considering that the oldest post that remains is from the 24th June 2004, almost twenty one years ago, means that I've averaged one post every twenty-one days over that period. Mind you, I've not been consistent; there've been periods I've posted more, others I've posted less.

How often have I posted?

The frequency of posts is as follows (top ten years):

# of postsYear
542013
382014
382011
302023
252017
252016
202004
192024
182015
162018

Which is to say, I posted most around the time of the Independence referendum, and I've been posting with reasonable frequency in recent years.

What have I posted about?

Well, this:

120 Politics 102 Scotland 61 Software 49 Living Spaces 46 Rural Policy 44 Levelling 31 Game Worlds 23 Structure 23 Reviews 22 Cycling 20 Madness

In other words, my interests are rather... wide!

How many words have I posted?

Well, this is astonishing: 488,308 or almost half a million.

The longest individual posts are as follows:

# of wordsPost
8045Response to Consultation ‘Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation’
6950Post-scarcity Software
6267Thoughts on bent cycles
5516Response to the Government's consultation anent land reform
5166The Game Engine problem
4988Place Standard Tool Summariser: Full Test Run
4930The Standingstone Model
4902Manifesto for a good society
4615It's time tae rise as levellers again -- Updated
4477The Dogs of War

Is any of it good?

Obviously, the longest posts are not necessarily the best, although a lot of the longer ones are posts I put a great deal of work into and very much like. Which are the best? Well, I have my favourites; you'll find them listed here.

Which are most influential? That's more difficult to answer. These are the top ten as reported by my web log this month; but that's partly a function of what I've been talking about on Mastodon.

URLNumber of visits
/blog/posts-output/2025-03-08-installing-forgejo/1,272
/blog/posts-output/2022-07-19-levellers-rant-updated/855
/blog/posts-output/2023-02-08-on-money/706
/blog/posts-output/2022-02-17-manifesto-for-a-good-society/699
/blog/posts-output/2023-06-14-atoure-numinie/649
/blog/posts-output/2020-07-24-rape-grouse-and-the-pathology-of-p...636
/blog/posts-output/2019-04-11-the-changeling/629
/blog/posts-output/2018-07-21-the-minimum-viable-village/617
/blog/posts-output/2025-06-06-place-standard-tool-summariser-ful...600
/blog/posts-output/2023-07-14-riese-und-m%C3%BCller-load-4-75-br...186

All in all, it's not a bad corpus of work.


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