Navel-gazing ¾ Year Of Drops

I had intended to publish a few more single-shot “left behind” drops, but we ended up driving back to the Maine compound early to see just how bad the storm damage might have been. Thankfully, there were no busted pipes and just some minor cleanup was necessary. This freed up time to spend alone with $SPOUSE vs. type in front of glowing rectangles.

So, today, we conclude the disrupted series with a rear-view mirror look at the drops from this past year.

Substack tells me the first drop was on 2022-04-10. While life managed to get in the way of the M-F “daily” goal, postings were pretty consistent:

The export function includes the HTML source for all the posts. A quick run through pandoc and a fancy word cloud generator definitely shows my bias when it comes to what I choose to focus on in each issue.

Over 450 topics/resources were presented (the lack of precision is due to some posts sneaking in more resources in the contents than were noted in subtitles). Folks can page through them in the Archive:

There was steady growth before and after Lynn’s incredibly kind referral:

and, an interesting phenom when it comes to how often a post was opened after delivery (~1.1-ish opens per delivery on average).

Most folks who let trackers work read the drops in their email client, but when there are on-web reads, it’s generally from a desktop compute device (65% of the time), with an interesting mix of operating environments:

  CLIENT_OS pct   
  <chr>     <chr> 
1 OS X      35.82%
2 Windows   22.89%
3 iOS       22.75%
4 Android   10.65%
5 Linux     6.43% 
6 unknown   1.11% 
7 BSD       0.28% 
8 OpenBSD   0.07% 

Both opens and visits came from across the globe:

• Australia

• Austria

• Belgium

• Brazil

• Bulgaria

• Canada

• China

• Costa Rica

• Croatia

• Czechia

• Denmark

• Estonia

• Ethiopia

• Finland

• France

• Georgia

• Germany

• Greece

• Hungary

• Ireland

• Israel

• Italy

• Japan

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Mexico

• Netherlands

• New Zealand

• Norway

• Pakistan

• Poland

• Portugal

• Réunion

• Romania

• Russia

• Serbia

• Singapore

• Slovakia

• South Africa

• South Korea

• Spain

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Thailand

• Ukraine

• United Arab Emirates

• United Kingdom

• United States

• Uruguay

• Vietnam

And, finally, the drop with the most engagement was “Drop #138 (2022-11-16): Delightful Surprises In Small Packages”.

FIN

That’s enough navel-gazing for one day.

Proper drops will resume Monday!

Many thanks to everyone who sub’d/click’d/open’d/share’d/comment’d since April!

I hope you all have a safe NYE as we usher out yet-another crazy, mixed-up annum. ☮