A Calendar View For My Blog

807 blog posts across 14 years.

That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing.

And here’s the question I’ve been turning over in my mind: “How do I convey that kind of volume across time in a more interesting way than a mere reverse-chronological list?”

I’m not hating on reverse-chronological lists. I love my list view. I use it all the time to find stuff I’ve written.

But it’s only one way of navigating and digesting all my posts.

“What would be another way?”

Surely there are many answers to that question. And I’ll probably be exploring them more and more over time.

But I had an idea for a new view that I built out and shipped: my calendar view.

Screenshot of the calendar archive on Jim Nielsen’s blog where it shows a calendar for 2026 with red dots on various days through the year.

It’s also just a reverse-chronological view, but it’s meant to convey a sense of posting patterns through time more than it is meant to be a good browsing experience of content.

The view is simple: a calendar view of days in each year, and if I posted on a day, it gets a circle (bonus: if a post hit hacker news, it gets an orange square instead).

Screenshot of the month of July with its day. A few days have a red circle and one day has an orange square, with a pop-up tied to it denoting the post’s title and that it hit hacker news.

You can click on the dots to see the names of the posts from that day (and follow the link to them, but really this view is basically to scratch an itch of mine.

Because you can just make stuff for yourself, and that’s what I’ve done here. And now I’m writing about it because that means I get another little circle for today! Good job, Jimbo.

Check it out