Timeline

Caught my GitHub contributions at exactly 9,999 in the last year today. Wasn't aiming for it. What a number to catch!

I pulled the public-repository breakdown a little later, by which point the total had reached 10,017. This API snapshot covers October 19, 2025 at 00:00 through October 20, 2026 at 23:59:59, London time (BST at both boundaries). The 27 public repositories below account for 7,889 contributions; this is not a breakdown of the earlier 9,999 in the screenshot. These counts include commit, pull request, and repository creation contributions.

Public-repository subtotal across all 27 repositories: 7,889 contributions.

The 4,743 commit contributions for my blog stand out. I write and push frequently, but I suspect the bigger factor is how I keep it in sync with Subspace, which the blog is based on: whenever Subspace updates, I rebase the blog and force-update it. Rebasing changes commit IDs, and my guess is that GitHub may be counting rewritten commits as new contributions. That's a personal hunch, not a verified explanation of GitHub's counting mechanism, and I wouldn't read that number as 4,743 distinct pieces of new work.

I was surprised to find out that my blog traffic has been growing organically, with no marketing from me at all. Last month it had 606 visitors and roughly 1.13k views, which is a real WOAH moment for a personal site. Thanks to everyone who has been coming to my blog; I wish you all the best.

I’m really happy that I built the timeline feature into my blog, because it gives me an easy way to write about little moments and keep them somewhere permanent, platform agnostic, and accessible without any kind of paywall or login wall. The ProjectSpire SwiftUI card view WIP entry is exactly the kind of thing I wanted this for: a small progress record I can send to friends and family without needing it to be a full post or trapped inside a social feed.

Published What's Worth Keeping: On Humanness in the Age of AI — a post on what I've been thinking about since attending a thought experiment session on AI and skill erosion. It's about the parts of humanness I think are genuinely worth protecting — junior skill-building, critical thinking, forming a view before outsourcing it — and what I actually try to do in my own daily use of AI tools.

Published A Small Digital Garden That Feels Like Home — a reflective post on what it means to tend a personal site: slow accumulation, things planted for yourself rather than an audience, and why that feels different from posting anywhere else.