Hello. I am Stephen McLeod Blythe, aka Clicky Steve. This site is a collection of blog posts, half finished musings, and other bits and pieces.
Recent Blog Posts
Books 2025
Every year I share details of the books that I have read over the past twelve months. In 2025, I apparently read 28 books – up from 22 in 2024. I have no idea why the graph shows 28. It’s wrong. According to Goodreads… that means a total of about 8274 pages. Up significantly from…
Books 2024
How are we already four months into 2025? Every year I publish a list of the books that I’ve read throughout the last twelve months. In 2023, I read a total of 29 books, which isn’t bad… but not quite as many as I would like. The total for 2024 was a shameful 22. However,…
Sabbatical Reflections from 2019
As I prepare to head off on sabbatical later this year, I realise that while I posted my plans for my first sabatical, I didn’t actually share my reflections publicly on return. Instead, I posted on one of the many internal websites that we have at Automattic. Re-reading it recently, I thought that it was…
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