# A 2020 Review of Generative Art, Blogging, Analytics, and Working From Home

DevFeed: [A 2020 Review of Generative Art, Blogging, Analytics, and Working From Home](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/into-2021-37289.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://muffinman.io/blog/into-2021/>)

Author: Stanko

Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Stanko Tadić](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stanko-tadic.md>)

Topics: [generative art](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-art.md>), [Google Analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-analytics.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/art.md>), [generative-art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-art.md>), [google-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-analytics.md>), [instagram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instagram.md>), [macos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macos.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>), [working-from-home](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/working-from-home.md>)

## AI overview

A personal review of 2020 covering the author's progress in generative art and pen plotting, changes from Google Analytics to GoatCounter, blog traffic and redirects, and working from home.

## Source excerpt

2020 was a hard one. I started writing this post in December, but I couldn't make myself finish it. The whole situation with COVID made me anxious at times and I didn't really have motivation for my side projects including this blog. But I won't focus on bad things, everyone had a tough year, so let's try to stay positive. Generative Art # I had one huge positive this year - I got into generative art. My fiance likes to say that I woke up on the first on January and started drawing some triangles. Triangles were super naive, but I'm super happy with my progress and these are some of my creations (all pen plotted): Special thanks to Vladimir Mitrović who was the only person I knew doing generative art. When I reached out, he selflessly helped me start with the whole thing. Be sure to visit his website as he is doing amazing stuff. I already wrote about my generative work a little, but I will create a separate site section for my artwork. Meanwhile, you can see the most of my work on Instagram. I'm super thrilled that people like my art enough to hang it on their walls. All of my work is done with pen plotting in mind. I'm using AxiDraw SE/A3 by Evil Mad Scientist and I love everything about this machine. Pen plotting is something that I want to write more about in the future. Blog # This year I neglected the blog a little. Mostly because I was focused on generative stuff, and I was doing that instead of writing posts. The pandemic didn't help either. I removed Google Analytics in favor of GoatCounter, a simple open source web analytics which are not tracking my readers. Even without writing much, I had more visits than in 2020. But you can see the drop in May, about the same time I removed Google Analytics. Coincidence or not, I can't say. The second drop happened in early December, as I moved posts under /blog prefix but screwed up the redirections. I can only hope search engines won't derank me too much because of that. People are still not sticking around after re