Another decade of blogging

So it seems we have finally reached a proper decade. The 00s or the 10s doesn’t have that nice ring to it like the 20s have. The last time we were there, it was called “The Roaring Twenties”, a period of prosperity and growth. Somehow I doubt that will be the case of the current decade, but let’s do our best.

I have now published stuff on this site across four decades: the 90s, 00s, 10s, and now the 20s. What once started as a simple project in 1994 has morphed into a completely different beast during the years.

Blogging away at a hotel room in Oslo 2007.

A decade ago responsive design was not even a thing (it was coined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010). Today a majority of users visit sites with mobile devices, so lush desktop resolutions are often going away for mobile-first design.

It seems like many younger developers haven’t even heard of progressive enhancement vs graceful degradation, or being ignorant to why they should even care about that sort of thing. But it’s the way of things, I guess.

Advertising for Martians.

I’m not sure where web sites are going these days. In a world of YouTubers and influencers, it feels like fewer people write text anymore. Posts longer than a few pages are marked with the warning sign “TL;DR”, as if it was an impenetrable work by Tolstoy.

But I’m still around and will continue this uneasy mix of travel stories and questionable photography for a while longer.