The previous release of BlogMore had some work that improved the HTML, ensuring that the HTML validator was happy with the generated code. Yesterday evening I ran it over more of the pages, and found a couple more things that made sense to address.
So v2.26.0 takes this a little further and tries to clean more things up. Changes include:
The comment email invitation box is now created with a div rather than a section, resolving a validation error about there being no h2 or similar inside the section (because we don't need any kind of heading in there).
Cleaned up an error relating to the misuse of an aria-label in the graph page.
Cleaned up an error relating to the misuse of an aria-label in the stats page.
Removed the h2 elements from the sidebar, making them into divs with the same style. This leaves headings as something that will only appear in the main body of any page or post.
Added some heading-demoting to the rendering of posts so that the heading structure of any given post is retained when it's part of any of the archive-style pages (date archives, category archives, tag archives, etc).
While not all of the above were being reported as validation errors, all of them should result in HTML that better fits what I'd want in the first place.
As I've written about a few times in the last week or so, the journey with AI-based coding tools has hit an interesting time when it comes to prices, quotas, usage, availability and all that. Having come into all of this via a place where it was a flat fee, and where I didn't really need to think about input tokens and output tokens and so on, I'm pretty ignorant of what that all means in terms of scale. If I'm looking at a new tool and I see prices and/or quotas for in/out tokens, it means nothing to me. I can't relate to it. I've never had to care about it.
Seeing that got me thinking: is there a way to get the total usage for all of my sessions, or at least the sessions that have still been retained (I'm guessing they expire after a wee while)? After a little bit of searching I found ccusage. That looked exactly like the sort of thing I was after.
Now, this is only going to be good for Gemini (it says it supports Copilot too, but it seems to be failing to find any Copilot sessions), but it should give me a feel for what my token usage looks like.
I work on BlogMore on two different machines: the MacBook Air and also a Mac Mini I have in my office. Here's all of the available token usage data I can get out of the Air:
Date
Input
Output
Cache Read
Total Tokens
Cost (USD)
2026-04-29
235,238
20,282
773,642
1,032,608
$0.23
2026-05-01
315,001
3,181
447,556
768,532
$0.20
2026-05-02
2,621,628
52,290
18,260,597
20,955,447
$2.44
2026-05-03
3,627,846
30,538
11,819,279
15,509,213
$5.74
2026-05-04
869,829
49,163
2,721,074
3,656,649
$0.77
2026-05-09
2,287,760
50,081
9,973,764
12,327,819
$1.84
2026-05-10
1,019,550
34,556
8,061,897
9,125,838
$1.05
2026-05-11
1,112,123
35,610
10,523,348
11,689,576
$1.24
2026-05-13
1,506,513
41,802
7,561,168
9,124,651
$2.88
2026-05-15
123,161
3,155
587,248
716,813
$0.11
2026-05-16
111,334
14,836
519,161
646,275
$0.13
2026-05-17
940,485
36,171
7,682,314
8,706,034
$1.41
2026-05-18
67,033
1,357
205,921
275,707
$0.05
2026-05-21
60,904
1,182
119,055
184,117
$0.05
Total
14,898,405
374,204
79,256,024
94,719,279
$18.13
And also the same for the Mac Mini (which gets used less frequently for this sort of thing):
Date
Input
Output
Cache Read
Total Tokens
Cost (USD)
2026-05-04
212,178
31,631
2,128,074
2,389,927
$0.36
2026-05-05
1,108,903
31,997
6,222,868
7,374,732
$1.13
2026-05-08
30,899
1,194
64,074
98,146
$0.03
2026-05-11
1,339,333
27,399
8,074,904
9,459,253
$1.21
2026-05-12
952,057
53,023
12,751,539
13,838,943
$1.52
2026-05-18
166,875
4,774
651,417
827,746
$0.22
2026-05-19
449,087
23,976
3,236,324
3,721,558
$0.54
2026-05-22
335,151
10,012
1,919,815
2,272,553
$0.32
Total
4,594,483
184,006
35,049,015
39,982,858
$5.33
In both cases I've removed a couple of columns to make the tables fit better. The first was the model name (varying between gemini-3-flash-preview and gemini-3.1-pro-preview), the second was Cache Create (which was always 0 all the way down).
From what I can see, it would appear that these two tables do cover my increasing use of Gemini CLI for doing work on BlogMore (the first intensive use being back around the 5th of this month, if I recall correctly). So this would seem to be a reasonably informative way to view things.
All of which is to say, over a roughly three week period, while getting things done, I've used getting on for 20,000,000 input tokens, and around 600,000 output tokens (presumably I do also need to be keeping the 114,300,000 cache read tokens in mind too). With this in mind I might now be able to make more sense of the pricing I see for various tools.
