11th August 2023, 1 min read

Blog Anniversary: 500 posts

This blog now has more than 500 posts.

1. Data. Generating static HTML files with Simplified Saaze shows number of posts:

$ time php saaze -mortb /tmp/build
Building static site in /tmp/build...
        execute(): filePath=/home/klm/php/sndsaaze/content/aux.yml, nentries=6, totalPages=1, entries_per_page=20
        execute(): filePath=/home/klm/php/sndsaaze/content/blog.yml, nentries=412, totalPages=21, entries_per_page=20
        execute(): filePath=/home/klm/php/sndsaaze/content/gallery.yml, nentries=6, totalPages=1, entries_per_page=20
        execute(): filePath=/home/klm/php/sndsaaze/content/music.yml, nentries=61, totalPages=4, entries_per_page=20
        execute(): filePath=/home/klm/php/sndsaaze/content/error.yml, nentries=1, totalPages=1, entries_per_page=20
Finished creating 5 collections, 4 with index, and 504 entries (0.17 secs / 11.15MB)
#collections=5, YamlParser=0.0095/511-5, md2html=0.0153, MathParser=0.0082/504, renderEntry=504, content=504/0, excerpt=0/0
        real 0.19s
        user 0.12s
        sys 0
        swapped 0
        total space 0

The number of posts, excluding index.md.

Over the years the posts are distributed as follows, not counting the 14 index.md posts. Two posts have index: false in their frontmatter, and one post has draft: true, see Simplified Saaze. Therefore these posts do not show in the count from php saaze.

2. Counting content. Below Perl script blogyrcnt counts posts per year.

#!/bin/perl -W
# Count number of posts per year

use strict;
my %H;

while (<>) {
    $H{$1} += 1 if (/\.\/(\d\d\d\d)\/\d\d\-\d\d\-/);
}

for (sort keys %H) {
    printf("%4d: %d\n",$_,$H{$_});
}

Run script as follows: Go to content/blog directory, then

$ find . | sort | blogyrcnt

Similarly for content/music.

As of 30-Dec-2024 this blog has 631 entries (=number of total Markdown files).