The content on this site dates to 2003, since then there have been 371 posts (including essays); these posts contain 247,580 words (for an average of 667.3 words per post), that’s 1,591,325 keystrokes. The largest post is 8,197 words. There are 8 posts longer than 3,000 words.

The number of words per post has changed over the years, as you can see below:

• 2000s: 240 words per post, across 173 posts
• 2010s: 817 words per post, across 146 posts
• 2020s: 1,667 words per post, across 52 posts

This content is categorized by type:

• News: 245 posts, with an average of 554 words per post (1,686 words in the 2020s)
• Essays: 58 posts, with an average of 1,325 words per post (1,844 words in the 2020s)
• Security Research: 20 posts, with an average of 712 words per post (not counting any code)
• Code: 23 posts, with an average of 427 words per post (not counting the the code itself)
• Administrivia: 21 posts, with an average of 279 words per post

Across all posts, each sentence (11,782 of them) has an average of 19.5 words (the longest is 84 words). The estimated Flesch reading ease of these posts is 55.2 (with sentences ranging from 118.2 to -72.2).

If you read every post on this site, it would take you approximately 1,238 minutes, though they took about 70,737 minutes to write.

These posts contain 1,480 external links (linking to 595 domains) and 158 internal links. Top 10 external domains linked to: github.com • en.wikipedia.org • web.archive.org • twitter.com • www.microsoft.com • blogs.msdn.com • arstechnica.com • wordpress.org • msdn2.microsoft.com • www.amazon.com

Since I started posting my photography on this site, I’ve added 122 photos; seeing as I don’t perform any post-processing on my photos, the time invested in each isn’t that bad. Overall, I’ve spent about 2,440 minutes working on these photos and getting them posted.

I’ve also started quite recently posting short stories. So far I’ve posted 13, containing 29,070 words; they can be read in 145 minutes, though took 15,300 minutes to write.

These stories vary greatly in length, complexity, and style; across all of them, they have an estimated Flesch reading ease of 70.0.

One this site, I’ve used 12,083 distinct words (with plurals and other close variations removed), with an average word length of 7.5 characters (or 4.6 characters when weighted by frequency). Obviously, I’ve used some of these more than others. Here you can see the words I use most often, after removing short, common, & generic terms.

Top 100 words: people • security • system • server • change • information • developer • possible • company • application • simple • better • attack • message • important • version • password • different • business • provide • software • understand • control • impact • project • update • service • process • device • problem • public • access • feature • attacker • option • available • question • making • working • support • account • address • window • person • effort • instead • create • secure • useful • client • result • future • writing • matter • detail • content • ensure • released • document • decision • solution • development • research • contract • common • experience • certificate • started • source • technology • product • example • release • quickly • government • microsoft • building • network • believe • threat • article • critical • within • require • simply • complex • encryption • reason • understanding • industry • thought • knowledge • minute • design • easily • encrypted • community • review • protect • course

The longest word used is “visualbasicforum.com”, with a length of 20 characters.

Overall, across all content on this site:

• I’ve written 506 posts across all content types.
• I’ve written 278,102 words on this site. That’s 1,764,783 keystrokes, or roughly 3.48 full-size novels.
• The hapax legomenon count, the number of words that are found exactly once amongst all posts is 5,043, that’s 41.74%.
• I’ve spent about 86,801 minutes writing. That’s 1,447 hours, or 60.3 days of continuous writing.
• In total, I’ve spent about 89,241 minutes creating content for this site.
• If you were to read everything on this site, it would take you about 1,391 minutes.
• Over the years, I’ve spent about 40,391 minutes developing this site (across the many different versions and designs that have existed). That’s 673 hours of development over the last 22.44 years.
• Between writing, photography, and development & design, I’ve spent about 129,632 minutes bringing this site to you. That’s 2,161 hours, or 90 days.

For those that have followed me across all these years, through the evolution of this site, and the creation of all this content, thank you for your interest, feedback, and inspiration.