I recently posed this question on Twitter, and some of you took the time to reply, so I wanted to share some of your responses here.
Those of you with blogs, what’s the post you are most proud of from 2013?
— snipe ツ (@snipeyhead) December 21, 2013
While most of my friends on twitter are in technology in some way, not all of them are – and not all of them blog about technology. Some tech folks, like @funkatron, blog about mental health issues and empathy. Others blog about gaming, gender issues, science, you name it.
The range of experience and expertise found among the people I interact with on twitter is really pretty amazing and I’m grateful for all of you every day. (Yes, even *you*.) Knowing what you’re most proud of gives me insight about you, and hopefully makes you reflect on your own work and remember something great you did.
Some of them are informative, some are touching, some give me weird feeling I can’t explain very well. I’ll be updating this page as more responses come in. I hope you enjoy these – I did.
@snipeyhead http://t.co/pSNYIG1ocd It was a joke for @donhertzfeldt, but I buckled down and knocked it out in two hours.
— Dr. Sbaitso‽ (@DrSbaitso) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Original inspiration: https://t.co/snKyZlax2T
— Dr. Sbaitso‽ (@DrSbaitso) December 21, 2013
(Extra points for having an interrobang in your twitter name, sir.)
@snipeyhead unfortunately, it's this one http://t.co/cOb4ETLJ14
— Topless Robot (@ToplessRobot) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Toss up between http://t.co/AdKPcBJzNa as my most creative, and http://t.co/08BrYm4Ev2
— Canageek (@Canageek) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead this photo: http://t.co/D1cFpEi2XB
— Joshua Daniel (@DCLiterate) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead photo wall from an active lobster pier in Sebasco, Maine. I saw it and was totally captivated.
— Joshua Daniel (@DCLiterate) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead This one.. https://t.co/EsRmdB1lJ0
— richquick (@richquick) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead This 1 for vulnerability & honesty http://t.co/No9jQDUIng & this 1 http://t.co/XT0H3hy9tE is best on-topic. CAN'T DECIDE!
— Aliz Navidad (@A_K_Anderson) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Probably my papal bull… http://t.co/FVu7vmVwTP
— Robert Novak (@gallifreyan) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead 37% of my page views == http://t.co/mypYtuYUSG
— Barry Morrison (@esacteksab) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Me: http://t.co/Cd0XDc95Wu & @kidsleepys http://t.co/lpZmgUyiyJ
— Adland (@adland) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead my favorite post from 2013… http://t.co/kjGnIM7a4i …it's a long entry about guns and technology. like, article-size long. 😉
— Deviant Ollam ツ (@deviantollam) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead my write-up of one of the contests at DEFCON http://t.co/NgLO3MjM4N
— Tom Pohl (@tompohl) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead it's between http://t.co/RdSPk4XnAw and http://t.co/bKNzWzvczj
— David Burns (@AutomatedTester) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead This one: http://t.co/863xHqJIe4 took me forever to finally get it written up, felt good when I finally did! #confirmationbias
— Matt Surabian (@MattSurabian) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Looks like I haven't posted since February, but I am still quite proud of this one: http://t.co/c5lWytsJWx
— Patrick Schwisow (@PSchwisow) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead https://t.co/iuJaGGZRzQ
— Mark Stanislav (@markstanislav) December 21, 2013
It was also interesting how many people only then realized how they didn’t publish as much as they meant to.
@snipeyhead wow, your blog question made me realize I published very little (and nothing memorable) this year. have to fix that in 2014.
— Bill Caputo (@logosity) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead Thanks for making me check and reminding me that I haven't written a single post since november 2012. *shakes fist at self*
— @jordansissel (@jordansissel) December 21, 2013
@snipeyhead The one I wrote. Because I think I updated it about that much this year. How did this year suck so bad? Why am I just noticing?
— linuxlibrarian (@linuxlibrarian) December 21, 2013
So yeah – you guys should get on that. 🙂 I’m also guilty of not publishing as much as I’d like – I’ve had two posts brewing for a while, one on impostor syndrome and being a generalist, and one on being a CTO. Maybe over the holiday break 🙂
PS – this one is the one I’m most proud of.
Now enough with the feels. Back to your regularly scheduled asshattery.
