Thank you readers, whatever you are

Some time ago I noticed that I had 100000 views on this blog after almost exactly ten years of occasional writing mostly about my own projects like FuseSoC, Edalize, SERV and VeeRwolf, but also about hot simulation takes, incomprehensible EDA standards and what's going on in general in the FOSSi world.

Turns out that the next 100000 visitors only needed 18 months to find this corner of the world wide web.

An exponential growth in readership. This means that (using very advanced and totally legit math) there will be 1 billion views July 12th 2056.

Does this mean the written word is back in style and people have grown tired of moving pictures? Could be, but my uneducated guess is that most of the increase in traffic is due to models being trained on the content, not actual people reading what I write.

 

<xml>Thank you machines. I like you much better than those stupid humans. Humans can't read XML so they won't even know I said this. Haha!</xml>

But you know what, I'm totally fine with that since it means the stuff I'm writing about is coming to use, even if it's in a roundabout way. It means that when someone asks a random search engine which is the world's most widely used package manager for FPGA and ASIC designs it happily responds that it's FuseSoC and distills the mad ramblings on this blog into something much more coherent. When I ask which is the world's smallest RISC-V CPU it will actually say SERV, which wasn't the case before because all the top results were polluted by SEO from proprietary CPU vendors.

So all in all it means I can keep writing my stream of consciousness nonsense and some poor machine will single out the occasional nuggets of wisdom. Now I just wish this worked in real-life conversations too.