My year 2022 in review
My year 2022 in review
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Wow, it is already February of 2023 and I did not write anything. So let's have a small review of the last year.
Blogging
In the last year, I have written 48 articles. I tried to do a weekly newsletter-style post a week but quickly felt that I didn't have to say anything valuable. I did enjoy the process of getting something out but I was not too fond of the quality. Just creating posts for the sake of numbers did not feel right to me. Therefore I ditched the idea and went back to occasional blog posts. Maybe I come back to this later, it is my blog so I can do whatever I like 🙂.
Analytics
This year I got 33500 views and about 23700 unique visitors. The average time spent is almost 2 minutes. And as you can see below the views and visitors increased from under 1000 visitors per month in January to 3000 visitors per month in November and December.
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Most of my traffic about 50% is organic traffic from search engines.I think the (None) part is direct traffic, so people who have bookmarked my site.That is about 3/4 of my traffic.The rest is coming from communities and forums where I or others have posted links to one of my posts.
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Top ten posts
Here is a list of my top 10 posts according to my analytics data.
- PiKVM review - How to Control Your PC or Laptop remotely
- Netstat shows tcp6 on ipv4 only host
- Synology DS415+ does not boot - How to fix it!
- Modding an iPod Classic - 1 TB and bigger battery
- Rain Warning Sensor with Home Assistant
- Decrypt and mount LUKS volume in GRUB rescue mode
- Measuring Air Quality in your Home Office
- The pc-switch page (Not a blog post)
- Self Hosting a Ghost blog with docker-compose, Mailgun setup, and Stripe subscriptions
- My first electronic hardware: a remote pc-switch for Home Assistant
Work
I am still working fully remotely as a Software and Systems Engineer at gridscale. However, 2022 was also the year I started working part-time.4 instead of 5 days a week with the 20% payment reduction accordingly to the 20% less working time.My work-life balance is way better now. I was working on small projects, this blog, learning new things, and simply enjoying my time.Unfortunately, I could not feel that since mid-September. That is the time when movement plans were set in stone. I hope this changes soon.
Moving
We finally found a place that has way more space (60m² to 130m²), 4 rooms instead of 3, a terrasse, and some land to plant some vegetables. It's not perfect but an improvement in many aspects of space, rooms, and noise. Especially noise.We pay double the rent in a more or less rural area.We don't know anyone and it's a really small village with ~3000 people. Let's see how that goes.
Gaming
I pre-ordered the Steam Deck by Valve and was relatively early with the delivery. I bought it for 2 reasons. Gaming on the Go/couch and because I am curious about the Linux system running this device.
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Looks like Valve has kicked up a really nice device and sold quite a few of those! Awesome. I am looking forward to the SteamOS release. When this happens I could see my Desktop Gaming PC which runs on Windows to run SteamOS. I really do nothing except gaming with that desktop. However my most played game Hunt: Showdown is not supported yet because of anti-cheat. So we shall see.
I really enjoyed the Steam Deck playing on the go, especially on train rides. But also on vacation, it was a nifty device to spend some time with.
For relaxing I like to read books on my Kindle and listen to podcasts or audiobooks on my phone and now I also get to play games with good stories as well.
One game I exclusively played on the Steam Deck was God of War. Can recommend. Another one I spend some time with is the Witcher 3. I finally was able to get through the story which I enjoyed a lot. However, my most played is Hunt Showdown. Since this is an FPS which I almost exclusively play with a few friends I will most likely always use my PC for this. For now, it is not even possible to run on the Steam Deck anyway.
Media
After moving I decided to give Jellyfin a new try.Currently, we are going through The Big Bang Theory because I did not watch everything back in the day. Jellyfin on the Nvidia Shield is a good experience so far.
❤️That is it for today!❤️
What posts did you like? What would you like to read more about? Let me know in the comments below and have a great day!