BlogMore v2.10.0

I've released an update to BlogMore, with another little straightforward addition. This time I'm revisiting the statistics page and adding a streak tracker, of sorts.

Modelled after the GitHub contribution tracker, or indeed any number of other streak trackers, it shows which days in the recent past I've blogged on, and also an indication of how many posts I've made that day.

Of course, it's not quite a full streak tracker. It's only going to show the days up to the day the site was last generated; so when a reader visits and looks, if you've not generated the site for a month, it's not going to show that you've not blogged for a month¹. The point is that if you last blog in January, come March or so the reader isn't going to see 2 months of empty days, until you regenerate the site.

So, not perfect, but good enough I think. Also it gives the reader another method of discovering posts (each cell will take them to the archive for that day, so they can read the post or posts for that day).

I've also tried to make it vaguely responsive. There are narrower date ranges as the display gets narrower. We start out at 10 months (as you can see above), then drop to 9 months:

and then dropping to 5 months once we get to mobile-type screens:

For all its flaws, I feel it's kind of fun and I like it as a new discovery tool. It almost makes me want to do a whole-blog-lifetime version of it, or perhaps some sort of more calendar-oriented version of the archive. For now though I'm going to settle with this and see if it encourages me to keep up a blogging streak.

While it isn't my intention to write posts for the sake of it, I am enjoying writing something more frequently, so this might just help keep me doing that.