{"id":7546,"date":"2026-04-13T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:28:20","slug":"c-blog-13th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=7546","title":{"rendered":"C Blog 13th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cake
\nToday marks the 13th anniversary of this blog’s first post. The blog didn’t go live for a few months, specifically to ensure that I would A) keep up the posts (a fault with many blogs) and B) have plenty of material for visitors to peruse. It’s been going strong and consistently since that original post, April 13th, 2013.
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\nThe blog was presented as a companion to the book Beginning Programming with C For Dummies<\/em>, which is a few books ago. It’s referenced in the current title, C Programming for Dummies<\/em>, 2nd Edition. So whichever version of the book you have, the blog is supportive.<\/p>\n

The stats: This blog has 982 posts with over 876 comments. I don’t know how many visitors show up every month. In fact, knowing the exact number might be disappointing, but I keep posting. Currently 28 humans subscribe; I limit subscriptions because otherwise bots subscribe to WordPress blogs in huge numbers.<\/p>\n

New Lessons arrive every Saturday. New Exercises are posted the first of the month, with solutions posted eight days later.<\/p>\n

Given the current state of my career, decimated by AI, I do have a termination date for this website and the blog. Right now, I’ve written that it will be in 2029, though I might need to move up the date to 2028 because that’s when the site’s SSL certificate expires. I don’t need the SSL certificate, but all the internal links are https<\/code>, which would require a lot of updates. Even so, I’ll keep up with the posts and all that.<\/p>\n

I’m also making the move from Windows to Linux. The graphic at the top of this page was created in Linux and not Illustrator. My plan is to completely eschew Windows within the year. I would strongly recommend that everyone serious about using a computer do the same.<\/p>\n

Thank you for visiting. Thank you especially to those who contribute. I do appreciate it! I shall continue to write about C as much as I can. It’s a great language and will be with us for a long, long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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