The real 10,000th post

Now that the Calendar feature works, I spent an hour today writing a utility to count all the public blog posts by month, and to give me a cumulative count. It turns out, most of my posts exhorting big milestones, like the 5,000th or, more recently, the 9,000th, were off by a few weeks.

Rather than sometime next week as I had thought, I actually published the 10,000th post of the modern era (i.e., since 13 November 2005), on December 26th. The 10,000th post overall was this one from July 10th, not the one on August 8th as previously believed¹.

This, therefore, is the 10,248th Daily Parker post since braverman.org added proto-blogging features in July 1997, and the 10,046th since this became a proper blog in 2005.

The corrected data doesn't meaningfully change the overall statistics. I post 1.36 times per day on average, with a mean of 41.34 and a median of 42 posts per month (standard deviation, 7.868). The maximum for a month remains 60 (November 2008) and the minimum is still 15 (October 2007).

At my current rate of posting (38.42 times per month in 2025), I should reach 15,000 posts in May 2036 and 20,000 posts in March 2047. Stay tuned!