Celebrating 500 Articles on The Renegade Coder

Earlier this week I celebrated my 5th year with this site. Now, just two days later, I’m sharing my 500th article. How cool is that?

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Content Breakdown

I started writing back in 2017, and I haven’t looked back. In just 5 short years, I’ve written 500 articles (or at least the majority of those 500 articles). As a result, I thought it would be fun to breakdown exactly where all that work went.

Categories

To start, let’s take a look at the category breakdown. On my site, I have four categories: code, teach, meta, and blog. Obviously, I try to prioritize the code and teach categories, but I spend a ton of time writing about myself or projects I’m working on. At any rate, here’s the breakdown by category:

Category	Article Count
Blog	133
Code	204
Meta	134
Teach	29
Total	500

To be honest, I’m surprised by just how much I’ve written about code in the last 5 years. I suppose I can honestly call myself The Renegade Coder.

Years

One thing that’s fun to look at is just how much I’ve written over the years. Here’s a breakdown since 2017 (and late 2016 from a different site):

Year	Article Count
2016	6
2017	70
2018	152
2019	105
2020	98
2021	53
2022	16
Total	500

I think it’s pretty cool to have amassed 500 articles within just 5 years of starting the site (anniversary 4/20).

Series

As you know, I love a good series. That’s why I’ve made so many of them. Here’s the current breakdown of every series and its article count (sorted by age of series):

Series	Article Count
Java Basics	10
Data Structures in Java	6
A String of Unfavorable Roles	15
How to Python	41
Sample Programs in Every Language	44
Journey to a PhD	44
Renegade Travel Tips	4
The Legacy Newsletter	56
Subscriber Spotlight	2
Coding Tangents	21
Behind the Scenes	1
Python Errors	3
The Autodidact’s Guide to Python	11
Image Titler News	9
Sample Programs Repo News	17
Roll Your Own Python	3
Happy Birthday to Me	6
Year in Review	4
Jack of All Trades	4
Teaching Computers to Open Jars	2
Down the Rabbit Hole	1
Learn Python by Building Discord Bots	4
Recommended Reading	2
Teaching Reflections	6
SnakeMD News	2
Total	318

As you can see, I like to start series and never finish them. Luckily, my work is pretty low stakes, so I don’t have to worry about it.

Stats

One last thing I wanted to share before we go are my current statistics. Recently, Plausible added a feature which lets you import your Google Analytics stats, so I have every view accounted for here. That said, here’s the summary as of 500 articles:

• Overall Visitor Count: 648K
• Overall View Count: 783K

Those are some pretty cool lifetime numbers. It won’t be too long before we hit 1,000,000! Until then, I’m going to keep putting in the work.

Plans for the Future

At the moment, I’m pretty burned out. That said, I’m happy to stick to my weekly articles. Maybe this summer, I’ll build up a proper backlog. Until then, this is a pretty cool achievement!

In the meantime, if you’re interested in supporting the site, feel free to check out my list of ways to grow the site. There, you’ll find links to things like my monthly newsletter. Otherwise, check out some of these related posts:

• 100,000 Lifetime Views, 1,000 Daily Views, and 250 Articles
• 2021: Year in Review

If not, no worries! I hope you’ll stick around for another 500. Take care!