When thinking about how to kick off NaBloPoMo 2024 this past weekend, instead of picking one of several drafts or mostly written articles I naturally decided that we should instead start with something fresh!
Toward the end of 2023, inspired by and entirely ripping off Robb Knight’s Statistics page, I built out /statistics but entirely forgot to post about it1. This has definitely been true of several of the slashpages I’ve built out, so expect a few more posts about them in the coming days.
The page shows a live set of statistics generated from my database and crunched for you each time you reload. This is probably overkill and could be cached better, but I do have functionality to publish posts separately from code releases by post-dating them in the frontmatter. The code to generate the stats is pretty straightforward clocking in at a total of 17 lines of Ruby thanks to endless methods and numbered block params.