10 Years of Improve & Repeat

On this day 10 years ago, I was putting the finishing touches on the first blog posts I was going to publish on this blog. What started with a 12 posts series on RavenDB continued for much longer than I had anticipated. Including this post, I published 580 posts on various topics covering .Net, Python, SQL, and Testing:

 

A few statistics

The counter for page views currently stands at 2,348,747. The two years 2021 and 2022 brought record values in terms of the number of visitors and page views.

Thus far, 2023 has not been able to match these values. The drop in page views is between 40% and 50%, and it is unclear if it is caused by a bug in JetPack’s statistics tool or if the change in user behaviour due to tools like ChatGPT plays a role.

 

Most popular posts

Here are my 20 most popular blog posts of the last 10 years:

Post	# Views
Allowing Self-Signed Certificates on Localhost with Chrome and Firefox	206,214
How to Disable TLS 1.0, 1.1 and SSL on Your Windows Server	158,369
How to Activate TLS 1.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5	116,862
What to Do if Docker Desktop for Windows Does Not Start	109,580
How to Fix the “Keyset does not exist” CryptographicException	101,235
Where Are the Windows Lock Screen Images Stored?	95,993
Use the AdventureWorks Sample Database for Your Examples	59,431
Format JSON in Sublime Text 4	47,004
How to Test Your Internal Classes in C#	35,581
Internet Explorer on Windows Server: Enable File Downloads	34,434
Recreate the Self-Signed HTTPS Certificate for Localhost in IIS Express	59,431
Integrate SonarQube with Visual Studio using SonarLint	31,699
xUnit.net Cheat Sheet for NUnit Users	29,869
Using Logstash to Analyse IIS Log Files with Kibana	29,771
How to Fix “Could not find bin\roslyn\csc.exe”	29,433
How to Remove the Server Header in IIS 8.5	28,254
Testing a Web API with Postman	27,033
How to Configure IIS Express to Accept SSL Client Certificates	26,676
How to Get Rid of Error “Process with an Id of XXXX is not running” in Visual Studio	26,564
How to Use Git-Filter-Repo to Remove Files From Your Git Repository	25,713

 

Outlook

Even after reaching the 10-year anniversary, I have no intentions of quitting. My blog queue has currently enough finished posts to cover the next two months. And as far as I can tell, there is no shortage of topics to write about.

There are a few things I plan to change with the blog itself. One of the more noticeable changes will be a new template. I have a few points I want to change, but so far, I have not found a template that checks all the boxes. Another big change will be the use of a CDN to improve the experience for my readers in the US and India.

That should keep things exciting, and I hope you will enjoy many more interesting posts here.