Celebrating 150 Articles and Essays
Article • 718 Words • IndieWeb/Meta-blogging, 2026 • 03/23/2026
A look at how my blog and site have changed from 100-150 articles/essays posted on my blog.
There are 818 words in this article, and it will probably take you less than 5 minutes to read it.
This article was published 2026-03-23 00:00:00 -0400, which makes this post and me old when I published it.
Reflecting on Changes of My Site
The structure and aesthetic of my site has largely stayed the same, I’ve just had a deepening and broadening of some content featured.
- I updated my digital garden a lot more to make exploring it easier (better searching, filtering, etc.).
- I added more anthologies and added more data collections
- I added a games section which features some small games that I created awhile back
- I published my most popular post (not an article technically): Philosophical Concepts Mentioned in R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis
Other Reflections:
Post Milestone Statistics
101st: Celebrating 100 Articles and Essays (2025-01-09)
150th: Types of Board Games I’m Looking For (2026-03-22)
Elapsed Time from 101st - 150th Post: 438 days (~1 years and 2.5 months)
- Elapsed Time from 51st - 100th Post: It is 406 days (A little over one year and one month)
- Elapsed Time from 1st - 50th Post: 572 days (~1.5 years)
49 articles and 1 essay: Being (W)Asian (2025-03-31)
- The essay also was my most personal topic! It also took forever to write: around a 1 year and 3 months. I was working on it on and off of course.
- I do want to write more essays but they just take so much longer and my mind is typically in article mode.
I’ve only published 12 things in general in 2026, so I’ve definitely slowed down. Usually the first few months are my most productive times.
| Year | # of Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 |
| 2026 | 5 |
The tags do surprise me a little bit but only because it doesn’t capture all the stubs that I write because if I am thinking about something its not always complete thoughts that would make a good article, but I still want to get it all out on paper.
In February of 2025 I began my first non-monogamous relationship with a partner. My friends were also entering and leaving relationships or otherwise experiencing various growing pains so I spent a good portion of the year thinking about relationships, love, monogamy, etc.
| Tag | # of Posts |
|---|---|
| Love/Romance | 6 |
| Non-monogamy | 5 |
| Relationships | 5 |
| IndieWeb/Meta-blogging | 4 |
| Personal Fitness | 4 |
| Philosophy | 4 |
| Race | 2 |
| Communication | 2 |
| Dating | 2 |
| Interior Design | 2 |
| Partnership | 2 |
| Loving Better | 2 |
| Film | 2 |
| Living Better | 2 |
| Board Games | 2 |
| Reducetarian | 1 |
| Hosting | 1 |
| Breakups | 1 |
| Friendship | 1 |
| Relationship Structures | 1 |
| Self-Care | 1 |
| Mental Health | 1 |
| Design | 1 |
| Jekyll | 1 |
| Cleaning/Organization | 1 |
| Career | 1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 |
| Humor | 1 |
| Gifts | 1 |
| Compatibility | 1 |
| Media/Entertainment | 1 |
Some of My Favorite Newer Articles
This list is a lot longer than in my prior reflections, but I think I have a found a lot more of a stride so I am able to be more proud of more of the articles that I write. I also think that I was pretty varied in these last fifty posts which means a bit less inter-comparison which allows more of them to shine in their own right.
- Cocktail Mixer Event: A cocktail mixer event where you mix cocktails with “random” ingredients with the other guests!
- Polyamory Acts on More Than Just Romance: I think that the greatest benefit of non-monogamy is not just increased romance in your life, but increased potential for closeness with all types of relationships.
- Why Do People Stay In Bad Relationships?: Exploring the microeconomics/behavioral economics of staying in a bad relationship.
- Asexuality and Sexual Desire/Pleasure: In this article, I argue for a more pleasure-centric understanding of asexuality as a way to make introspection and identification easier.
- Mutual Support in Friendship: Discussing a conception of mutual support in friendship as an analog to mutual aid in community.
- Teasing, Play, and Flirtation: Developing an actual definition of flirting and linking it to teasing/play.
- Visualizing Lifting Progression: Analyzing and comparing my lifting progress for three of my lifts: Leg Extension, Preacher Curl, and Lateral Raise.
- The Emotionality Gap in Relationships: An underdiscussed potential gap that can be felt in relationships, especially heterosexual ones.
- Riffing is Human Nature: A look into an underappreciated pastime: What is riffing? How do you do it? Why do we do it?
- Compatibility, Meeting Needs, and ENM: Within the paradigm of non-monogamy, how can we know if we are compatible with someone/when
- Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Love: My take on how vulnerability creates intimacy, which is the key part of love.