ChatGPT assisted Changelog - 41/52

Published October 10, 2025

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This week centered on publishing, polishing, and reflecting on your Discourse work, with some light data analysis and side discussions along the way.

Blog and Writing

You published "Building a Live Transit Departure Board with Discourse", a follow-up to your earlier post about your first Discourse core contribution. The piece explored how you built a live transit tracker plugin that reimagines Discourse as a real-time data board rather than a forum. You asked if posting it on the official Discourse blog would be weird, ultimately deciding it would make sense given your role there. You also asked if the piece itself was interesting -- it was, both technically and conceptually, tying in your love of open data and infrastructure with your day job.

Data and Analytics

You dug into your GoatCounter analytics, examining visitor distribution across countries. After cleaning up duplicate entries, you found 37 unique countries represented, spanning six continents -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Europe and Asia were the strongest regions overall. The data was reformatted into a clean markdown table for future reference.

Open Source and Development

You briefly noted another bug you found in the AWS SDK for Ruby, following your previous fix and contribution, reinforcing your growing involvement in that project's ecosystem.

Overall

It was a quieter week but a meaningful one -- marked by the satisfaction of publishing a well-crafted post that blends creativity and engineering. The analytics work helped ground your readership data, while your continued OSS engagement kept your technical momentum going.