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التدوينة 500 والتعليق ال 1000

على مدار السنوات التي مرت علي كمدون. احتفلت بعلاماتي الفارقة. كل سنة أحتفل بالذكرى السنوية لافتتاح مدونتي. أرقام المشاهدات التي تمر علي: المائة ألف اﻷولى، المئتان والخمسون، والثلاثمائة، واﻷربعمائة، والأربعمائة واﻷربع وأربعون!  وقريبا إن شاء الله الخمسمائة ألف مشاهدة. هذا الهدف التالي الذي أضعه نصب عيني.

هذه العلامات كانت حافزًا لي على مواصلة الطريق. دفعة إضافية حتى الوصول إلى المحطة التالية ثم لنرى ما يحدث.

 

الهدم والبناء

لا يفوتني أن أذكر أنني ألغيت عشرات التدوينات لأنني شعرت أنها دون المستوى. لذلك تأخر وصولي لهذه العلامة الفارقة لفترة طويلة. 122 تحديدًا!

كان بودي أن تكون هذه التدوينة أيضًا للاحتفاء بالوصول لنصف مليون مشاهدة. لكن هذه العلامة الفارقة ستنتظر قليلًا. من حسابات أعداد المشاهدات الحالية سبعة أشهر تقريبًا. سأترك الاحتفاء بتلك العلامة إلى حينه.

التعليق رقم 1000

أيضا وصل عدد التعليقات على المدونة (مع ردودي عليها) ألف تعليق! لا أستطيع أن أصدق.. مرت عليّ أشهر طويلة لا يترك أحد فيها أي شيء. كنت أستخدم طرقًا ملتوية قليلًا لأعرف أن المحتوى خاصتي يصل للقراء. لكنهم كانوا يمرون ويحملّون الملفات ثم يغادرون المدونة دون ترك أي أثر يدل عليهم. هذا يجعل الوصول لألف تعليق شيئًا عظيمًا لأنني أذكر يوم كانت المدونة جزيرة معزولة في أقصى أركان الويب لا يزورها أحد. إنه شيء جميل أن ترى التغيير بعد مرور سنوات.

التعليق ال 1000، ونعم هو تعليق عن المولدات!

كيف تغيرت المدونة؟

المحتوى هو اﻷساس. أعلى التدوينات مشاهدة هي التي أشارك الناس فيها همومهم وأحاول تقديم حلول لمشاكلهم: تدوينة صيانة المولدات، وتدوينة الجوازات. أعتقد أن قرار التدوين حول المواضيع المحلية باللغة العربية كان ميلادًا جديدًا للمدونة.

هل في جعبتي 500 تدوينة أخرى؟

حاليًا ليس لدي سوى عشر مسودات أعمل عليها. أخشى بعد ذلك أن تصاب المدونة بالجفاف. لذلك عليَ أن أعيد اختراع هذه المدونة وأن أبحث عن مواضيع جديدة تبقي هذه المدونة حية. جربت التدوين عن الماضي وعن مخاوف الحاضر. ربما مفتاح الحل يكمن في المستقبل؟

حقيقة لا أريد التوقف عن التدوين ولا أعرف ماذا سأفعل لو اضطررت للتوقف.

شكرا لك على قراءة هذا التحديث ومشاركتي علامة فارقة أخرى في مسيرتي. هذا النجاح أنت جزء منه عزيزي القارئ ومن دون القراء هذه المدونة ما كانت لتكون.

نحو نصف مليون مشاهدة.

ومليون مشاهدة.

وزمن لا أقيس فيه الوصول بعدد المشاهدات..

Living in a haze!

Here we are, the last day of the first month of 2019.

 What was I doing?

How did I spend this month? Work, work and you’ve guessed it! More work! Sigh.. Will I ever learn my lesson?
I didn’t get a chance to do the things I like and enjoy, like playing games even when I bought a gaming keyboard! or reading as much as I want to. I found that I spend my resting time aimlessly browsing social media, and even Reddit! That’s not how time should be spent. 
So I did a social media detox, the problem is with my sleep cycle, not with social media. 

My sleep is a mess, having to wake up early to go to work in order to beat the traffic, and sleep early to wake up in the middle of the night to work when there is some power..

The electricity situation continues

Sadly the electricity is still on and off, making work more difficult.
Hopefully in the coming month I am able to make more balance happen.
Blogging wise, I haven’t posted much, and to be perfectly honest: This post is for me not to end the month without making a post, it’s been a while since I’ve actually published anything. 

Blogging achievements

Could this be a monthly thing?

I don’t think so, I’d rather for the blog to be slightly impulsive and unpredictable with a touch of consistency. And it could be a card that I pull out of my sleeve whenever I’m stranded or lost for words on the blog. I’ll let you to guess dear reader. 

Final words

It was an important month, and I am glad that I took a few minutes today to do something that makes me feel happy and fulfilled, blogging!

Have a good day.

Until I learn my lesson!

Yet again I find myself in a difficult situation, so it’s time to sit quietly and reflect.

What seems to be the problem

I noticed a pattern going on, and from experience I could tell that solving problems needs looking at it differently. maybe the issue is not with a bad situation or a workplace attitude, maybe the issue is with me.

A bit of the same old

When a problem repeats itself over and over in different situations that means changing the environment didn’t solve it,  and perhaps my attitude towards the problem is the problem itself. 

The cycle will repeat itself until broken

I blogged about the vicious cycle that is life in Libya, and that it needs a permanent break  before it swallows us whole, two years later and things are pretty much the same, at least I must prevent the abusive patterns from appearing in my life. 

It’s okay not to be okay, it’s okay to ask for help

I’m reminding myself with these simple facts, having too much to do and a little time to rest or do the things I like doing is unhealthy, being overworked is unhealthy, and saying no when something seems too much is the right thing to do.

The right attitude

Looking out for number one is an important lesson I learned from a foreign principle I worked with, your health is your most valuable asset,  always stay healthy and keep yourself together. Nothing is worth losing your health for.

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it

An important lesson I take from my working experience is : There is something as too much work. Being burnt is not okay, killing myself to meet deadlines and keep the wheel rolling is not okay, unnecessary sacrifices are not okay.  Everyone has limits!

A change of scenery isn’t always the solution

I learned that if you think and act the same, then no matter where you go, you will carry your problems with you; not only that! You will fall victim to the same patterns you were desperately trying to avoid!

Final words

It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s not okay to repeat them.
Okay ?  

P.S : This is my 450th post, I guess I’m back to this point before the cleanse!  
P.S.S : I’ve done several updates to my blog, perhaps I’ll address them all in a separate post!

Editing blogger blog posts that won’t edit!

I had my blog for some time now (six and a half years to be specific), and during that time I experimented with a lot of things, and made some mistakes along the way.

Major issues solved

One of the things was the a:link that was showing on my blog and I didn’t know where it came from and how to remove it, turns out it was caused by coping text straight from LibreOffice writer, then I noticed that some posts had colors and fonts that didn’t look like the general blog template, and trying to edit them like you would normally do wouldn’t work, and that’s very frustrating to be honest.

As I continued digging around, I managed to find a fix for that bug and I will share it here in this post.

First step, identifying the culprit posts

The posts that look off are shown on the blog, you can see them and tell that the colors or fonts aren’t consistent with the general layout of the blog, it would be a problem if the posts become unreadable due to color matching, and that requires changing.
How to fix the posts?
There is no easy one click fix for this issue, you need to edit them one by one.

Fixing the posts

    1. Edit the post in question
       Go to blogger posts and search for that post.

    2. From there edit the post and go to HTML view and copy the code, you might want to save a copy of it as backup.

    3. Open up your favorite text editor, I’ve reviewed many on this blog such as Sublime and Atom, but I’ll be using Atom for the rest of this post.

    4. Paste the text into Atom editor and start searching by hitting CTRL + F to open the search and replace pane.

    5. Start looking for HTML code such as font-color or font-family depending on what’s wrong with the post, and continue search and replace until you think you got out all the culprit code.

    6. Copy the text and paste it back into the post, and go back to the preview tab and take a look, clean any open “<” that’s left and any left junk, just make sure you don’t mess up the text, if it’s too much to handle copy it back to Atom and start search and replace.

    7. Some layouts are going to change, so you might need to alter them by hand.
Once you are done, you can publish your post again, and it will look natural no matter what template you decide on using.

I hope you found this post useful, please leave any questions in the comments section below.

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