Here are my most popular blog posts from 2025, with the caveat that this might all be bullshit from bots.

For example, this year the number one hit was a blog post from 2022, that never had a large number of hits in any previous year, and also wasn't particularly interesting or controversial. An absolutely "mid" post, as the kids say. It had more than twice as many hits as the number two post. 99.5% of those hits came from the user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)

which is what all modern Apple Safari browsers now claim to be. (Yes, they all claim to be Intel.) So either these hits are from lying Apple browsers, or from lying AI bots repeating Apple's lie, and there's no way to tell.

"Popularity" here is based on page loads, not on comments or likes or boosts or whatever.

50: Blade Runners needed 49: jwz mixtape 254 48: Sax, possibly violence 47: Great moments in the internet service industry 46: Four way stop versus $100 billion valuation 45: Gavin Newsom Actually Sucks 44: Pi 4 SPI lossage 43: Poopin' Putin 42: Atomic Keyboard 41: Tempest, Pac-Man 40: Fucking Python 39: The Cringeocracy 38: CIA 37: Waiting For The Worms 36: RTMP / HLS segment corruption 35: Perennial "Fuck the Blue Angels" post 34: Qualifying Conditions 33: Wayland and screen savers (2023) 32: Under Attack, Please Stand By 31: 0xACAB8647 30: Werewolf Futures 29: Crosswalks hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg 28: XScreenSaver 6.12 27: "An off switch? She'll get years for that." 26: Today in "Google broke email" 25: Basecamp alternative 24: Cube 23: XScreenSaver, Wayland and locking 22: Marc Andreessen, Murder Enthusiast 21: E-bikes 20: User agent blocking 19: Motherfucking Wind Farms 18: Now I have two problems 17: The Mothership Vortex 16: Fucking Python 15: "I prefer to meet people where they are" 14: On Blocking, Mastodon HOA Edition 13: Pro Tip 12: Exterminate all rational AI scrapers 11: You MUST listen to RFC 2119 10: The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork 9: Today in Email Hegemony 8: Ambient age verification 7: Unpopularity Contest 6: Under Attack, Please Stand By 5: Wayland screenshots 4: Signal 3: Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today 2: DMARC and SPF 1: Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today (2024)

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