Ten years ago today, the first ever Irreal post appeared on Blogger. It’s amusing to read what I thought the blog was going to be about. To be sure, I do sometimes write about Lisp and Scheme—although not so much lately—but these days Irreal mostly covers Emacs, privacy, and the occasional technical subject that strikes my fancy.
After a couple of years, I moved Irreal from the Blogger platform to my own domain running WordPress on a rented virtual server. About 7 years ago, I started posting everyday. As I said at the time, that’s way harder than you’d think it would be but by now it’s become second nature. Since June 1st of 2012, I’ve posted everyday except for a very few occasions when I was sick, there were network issues, or a hurricane came calling.
Going forward, I don’t expect much to change. Doubtlessly, Irreal will continue to evolve reflecting my interests at the time but I don’t envision any sudden shifts in emphasis or content. I’ve been using Emacs for more than a decade and have learned that I still have a lot to learn so I’m pretty sure that Emacs coverage will continue at about the same level as it has now. Privacy violations by governments and corporations infuriate me as much as they ever have so expect coverage of that to continue as well.
I’ve become more interested in leveraging my digital lifestyle as a way of simplifying my life. My post on everyday carry reflects that and I expect I’ll be writing more about such things in the future. I’m far from mercurial but my interests do mutate so I’m sure I’ll be writing about entirely new things too.
I’m looking forward to Irreal’s second decade. I hope you are too.