eval/apply

Your readership graces Eval/Apply. Thank you for subscribing along for the ride (bows deeply).

To me, writing was thinking. Apparently it can also be a process of becoming. (Don't ask becoming what. That was a mystery in November 2021, as of the very first "apology post genre" post; In the beginning, was the domain name, and is still unknown, and it is fine... Finding out is the fun bit!)

Few newsletter emails have manifested, but plenty of blog posts have (which might have been seen by RSS feed subscribers).

Recently (as of Sep. 2025), I counted numbers, and, like, WHAT?

Over One Hundred Thousand total words blogged out; that too 100% hand-crafted, artisanal, organic, and Creative Commons Licensed (CC By-SA 4.0). (At least 2x more in trashed drafts, and forever drafts that will never see light of day because the writing of served my no. 1 purpose of thinking about.)
Twenty Thousand monthly "unique visitors" on an average, however Cloudflare counts plain HTTP traffic; my site does not have tracking analytics. (So, WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE with the time to read no-word-limit blog posts---I effing kid you not, see word counts below---by some Internet Rando, in this age of deliciously dopaminey skibidi brainrot tiktokified "content"?)
Even a spot of HackerNews "front paging" which, whenever it happens, slurps down a whole month's bandwidth in under one day (and I don't have to worry thanks to the Cloudflare page cache).
But mostly, my personal favourite "Internet Serendipity" thing in the world... Languid letter-exchanging, a few times a month, with kindred spirits who respond to my "Standing Invitation".

So thanks again for reading, writing, and gracing EvalApply.org with your presence and brainspace!

May The Source be With You,

--- Aditya.

P.S. The word-stats, as promised... See for yourself: evalapply.org/posts.

adi@tardis:~ $ wc -w sources/posts/*/index.org # word count of *published* posts
  3749 sources/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/index.org
   755 sources/posts/bad-matrix/index.org
  3520 sources/posts/clojure-mars-rover/index.org
  7466 sources/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch/index.org
  1193 sources/posts/cold-restart-total-outage/index.org
   835 sources/posts/demo-clojure-workflow-scicloj/index.org
   978 sources/posts/dismal-arithmetic-dyalog-apl-clojure/index.org
   621 sources/posts/dont-hurry-dont-stop-sad-version/index.org
  3056 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy-getting-about/index.org
  4977 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy-ide-experience/index.org
   625 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy/index.org
   727 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy-init-begins/index.org
  1818 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy-midway-refactor/index.org
  1620 sources/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankruptcy-packages/index.org
  1468 sources/posts/halting-ai/index.org
   510 sources/posts/hello-quarter-two-of-the-21st-century/index.org
  1096 sources/posts/hello-world/index.org
   860 sources/posts/how-to-give-a-conference-talk/index.org
  2513 sources/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.org
  2008 sources/posts/lessons-from-reimplementing-clojure-comp-function/index.org
  1755 sources/posts/llms-are-diamonds/index.org
  1050 sources/posts/mycelium-clj/index.org
  8915 sources/posts/n-ways-to-fizzbuzz-in-clojure/index.org
   648 sources/posts/people-culture-values-strategy-technology/index.org
  1859 sources/posts/poor-mans-job-runner-clojure-agents/index.org
 11265 sources/posts/poor-mans-time-oriented-data-system/index.org
   250 sources/posts/reader-app-pandoc-bash/index.org
  1222 sources/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp-part-0-intro/index.org
  2156 sources/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp-part-1-doug-mcilroys-pipeline/index.org
  3754 sources/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp-part-2-functions-as-unix-tools/index.org
  2241 sources/posts/shite-the-static-sites-from-shell-part-1/index.org
  2560 sources/posts/software-debt/index.org
  1632 sources/posts/software-demos/index.org
  6111 sources/posts/systems-approach-to-infrastructure-as-code/index.org
  2696 sources/posts/systems-scale-value/index.org
  1129 sources/posts/tools-for-thought/index.org
   468 sources/posts/what-have-you-been-curious-about/index.org
  1749 sources/posts/what-makes-functional-programming-systems-functional/index.org
  1839 sources/posts/which-clojure-codebases-to-read-how-and-why/index.org
  4258 sources/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/index.org
  2196 sources/posts/writing-maketh-the-10x-developer/index.org
  4468 sources/posts/writing-practices-to-10x-engineering/index.org
104616 total