Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
This site had 20,505 visits in April 2022 from 14,729 unique visitors. That’s 683 visits per day. Collectively, they downloaded 86,573 pages.
Curiously, I have through April and May been reworking the page that’s as close as I’ve ever written to a mission statement. Now I see it suddenly had 1,655 views in a month, in no particular rush but apparently prompted by one reader’s tweet. My own attention was independent. I hadn’t looked at the statistics for months. I am instead passing again through one of those phases where I wonder if research and writing for this website has to end. At least the reason this time round is largely free of despair about whether my effort—and charity, frankly—has been worthwhile. I find myself quite proud of the work I have presented here and am rather heartened to have watched the field grow at the hands of others. It hasn’t grown quite as I imagined—or like, given the distortions of the security industry—but that mission statement from 1997, when few people were thinking of reverse engineering as a subject of study and even fewer as having commercial application, has held up pretty well.
New to these lists is one of my occasional attempts at an overall description of some programming feature. I have in mind that some of this one’s introduction was written long before the page’s own dating of its creation, but 2017 is when I determined that the feature really did need a good treatment and that I was fit to try. Five years, and finally readers notice! That is the way of much of what I’ve done. But look at the page with its 226 visits: why shouldn’t I be proud to have written it and to see it get read?
The list below is of document pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in the month. Ranks in parentheses are from March 2022. Faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of Contents (TOC) to another. One of those index pages is just the skimpiest of placeholders, pending my writing an introduction, which I likely never will get round to. The TOCs are omitted entirely, as is the banner page, since none of these are meant to be seen independently of a document page.