How I got my blog to show whether I am alive or not
You may have noticed the small indicator in the navigation card of my blog. It tells you whether I am alive or not. Simple enough.
Morbid? Maybe a little bit, but also fun and practical I would say.
In this post I will explain how I set up an “alive indicator” on my blog, so that visitors can see if I am still around or not. 
The idea
I wanted my blog to be more than just a static collection of posts. It should contain something unique, something interesting. Sidestep - I myself sometimes get “eerie” feelings from static, outdated websites. I’ll be browsing some random blog that hasn’t been updated in years, no new posts, images, projects, nothing. It’s as if it was frozen in time, deserted, no one to bother updating it. Maybe they’re no longer around to update it? Will my blog one day give someone that same feeling? - anyways… I figured it would be cool if I could connect some real world, dynamic statistic and display it on my blog.
