In March 2007, I published my first blog post.
Unimaginatively, it was titled First Post.
Since then, a lot has changed. To celebrate this milestone, allow me to recap some significant personal and professional events, then and now.
| Then (2007) | Now (2017) |
| Blogging with Plone (via add-ons or core) | Blogging with Sphinx (via ablog). In between: Wordpress, Pelican. |
| Left NIH (2005) to be self-employed. | Still self-employed, but back at NIH too. |
| Using irssi for IRC. | In The Lounge. In between: WeeChat. |
| Engaged but not married. | About to celebrate 10 years of marriage in November 2017. |
| Conference-hosting virgin. | Proud veteran organizer of Plone Conference 2008. |
| Three years before Pillow, my Python Imaging Library fork, was born in 2010. | Pillow included in major Linux distributions and downloaded over 15 million times. |
| Four years before vanity, my download statistics tool, was born in 2011. | Vanity waiting for Warehouse. |
| Five years before my busiest blogging year ever, 35 posts in 2012. | Averaging 15 posts per year. |
| Six years before plock made noise in 2013. | Pip installs plock. Plock installs Plone. |
| 10 years before this post. | This post! |
Thanks for reading; see you in 10 years for another retrospective.