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{
  "title": "#WeblogPoMo2024 retrospective",
  "date": "2024-05-31T08:00:52.945Z",
  "tags": [],
  "excerpt": "A quick look back at WeblogPoMo2024 on the last day"
}
---

It's the last day of [#WeblogPoMo2024](/post/tag/WeblogPoMo2024), so I thought I'd take a quick look back at the month and see how it has gone.

Overall, I'm kind of impressed I'm even writing a post on the last day. Honestly, I expected to maybe manage the first 7-or-so days, but in fact I managed to write 19 consecutive blog posts (and that's not counting the [intro post](/post/weblogpomo-2024/) on the 30th of April). In total, including today, I managed to write a post 25/31 days. I'm calling that a success.

What was _less_ successful was my initial goal of learning Go and making something useful with it. That fizzled out around the time I had to take my daughter to hospital, which was also when my posting cadence slowed down. But, as I said in my [Day One post](/post/learning-go-day-one/), there is zero accountability to this. I had some fun, wrote some nonsense, learned some Go syntax. It was a win.

One thing I did enjoy was just writing stuff without really caring if it was perfect. I tried to keep my writing to a maximum of 1 hour per day, usually much less, which meant I didn't have time for perfectionism. I'm going to try and keep a higher cadence to my posting, although not every day because that's unsustainable.

Anyway, WeBlogPoMo was fun, maybe I'll do it again next year.
