Last year I managed to publish very little to the blog in general because life.
This year I hope I made up for it with *…counting…* 14 posts across three months and more than 70,00 words of analysis, neologisms, and celebration. It was a rich collection of movies. I’m not done. I already have more posts and analysis scheduled for later this year.
While I did all of that, I got caught up in making some improvements to the site.
- I fixed a lot of special-character typ0z and missing images. (n.b. Many, but not all.)
- I got rid of a lot of “update” posts—as opposed to that aren’t really relevant now. (Even this one may get chopped in time.)
- Claude helped me write some WordPress shortcode for forward-looking links that announce in text when a post is scheduled, and that automatically convert to a link once it goes live. This saves me from having to remember to go back and update links.
- I also switched to a service to let readers know where a given show can be watched, and it is true as of the moment a page loads, so no *womp womp* links that raise false hope. (Sadly I couldn’t filter out awful billionaire sites from their lists, but you can’t win them all.) Look at any of the Report Card pages to see these in action. They’re usually right at the bottom.
- I created a Glossary page of all the nerd terms related to the ongoing discussion.
I hope those improvements make using the site better.
Oh, and we now have final awards tally for the 2026 Fritzes! It and the others are linked on the main Fritzes page should you want to go back to any prior years’.
2026 is looking to have a number of interesting interfaces already, but of course if you see something that you don’t want me to miss, hit me up. You know where to find me.