The Month of Blogging

For the month of April, fellow Automattician Justin Shreve challenged the company to make a point to publish some blog post every day of the month, seven days a week.

The challenge was extremely hard, frankly. Some posts, like this one, were posted simply to follow the letter of the rule, not the spirit. Life gets in the way: there was a WordCamp, a big Jetpack security release, a surgery, a car accident, travel for weddings, travel for work. It isn’t easy nor trivial to have interesting content every day with no downtime.

I often found myself with an idea I wanted to flesh out more but posted prematurely, in one sense, because I wanted to keep up with the challenge. I’ll write more about this, but limited time tonight. (Vanessa was in a car accident today—everyone is okay, except for the car—so my schedule ran out on me.

If you didn’t keep up, here’s what I posted this month:

April 1st: Thomas Merton Was Wrong on the Daddyblog (kraft.wordpress.com)

April 2nd:

Put Down the Phone (Daddyblog)

Change Related Posts Headline in Jetpack (kraft.im)

April 3rd: What The Bleep Is In My Coffee (Daddyblog)

April 4th: The Rule of Law: Seatbelts (Daddyblog)

April 5th: What Great Food! (kraft.im photoblog)

April 6th: Beat The Simpsons Game (kraft.im photoblog)

April 7th: Project Directors (Daddyblog)

April 8th: Catalina is doing fine (kraft.im)

April 9th: Fine Print and the Difference of Insurance (Daddyblog)

April 10th: Help Test The Next Version of Akismet (kraft.im)

April 11th: Kraft & Kraft Cheese: Friends Forever (kraft.im)

April 12th: National Grilled Cheese Day (kraft.im photoblog)

April 13th: Airport to Neighborhood (kraft.im photoblog)

April 14th: Water and Establishing The Workspace (kraft.im)

April 15th: Bike Ride (kraft.im photoblog)

April 16th: WordPress 3.9 Download Now! (kraft.im)

April 17th: The Little Things (Daddyblog)

April 18th: The Oddest Bug (everything from here on on kraft.im)

April 19th: Texas Fight (photoblog)

April 20th: Yes, Nestle (photoblog)

April 21st: Skate Route (photoblog)

April 22nd: WordCamp Austin Tickets

April 23rd: Blazin’ Fast Internet

April 24th: BBQ & the Love of WordPress

April 25th: Contributors in Action (photoblog)

April 26th:

WCATX Liveblog: Jen Mylo

WCATX Liveblog: Cain & Obenland

WCATX Liveblog: Do’s and Don’ts of Multisite

April 27th:

WCATX Liveblog: Nacin

WCATX Liveblog: Improving Workflow with Grunt

April 28th: WCATX Done. (photoblog)

April 29th: Burrito != Sandwich

April 30th: The Month of Blogging (this post! )

Thanks everyone for reading along. I’ll keep it up, though maybe not daily. I’d like to be of interest to more people than my wife (that’s a stretch) and my mom!