{"id":19036,"date":"2024-03-24T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=19036"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:49:14","slug":"holding-back-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/holding-back-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding Back the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone with an interest in natural history, I often look forward to seasonal occurrences, the first cuckoo or blackthorn blossom.<\/p>\n<p>I also keep track of some of these things here on my blog and on Flickr. I find searching both places useful for all sorts of reasons, but not for figuring out what to expect or remembering when I&#8217;ve heard the first cuckoo.<\/p>\n<p>A while back I, sort of solved the problem here by <del><a title=\"First of Year\" href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/portfolio\/first-of-year\/\">making a page<\/a><\/del> that allows me to search the blog and order the results by the date without the years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing about with Flickr searches in the same way and now have a simple page which searches for a tag and order the page by months, ignoring the years. The<del> <a title=\"Flickr by month\" href=\"https:\/\/pi.johnj.info\/flickrbymonth.html\">page loads the tag flora by default<\/a>. If you give it a <em>t<\/em> parameter, it will search for that instead: <a title=\"Flickr by month\" href=\"https:\/\/pi.johnj.info\/flickrbymonth.html?t=butterfly\">?t=butterfly<\/a>.<\/del> I&#8217;ve also brefly tested a <em>u<\/em> parameter for username. This needs to be a user&#8217;s NSID (71428177@N00 not troutcolor), it defaults to mine.<\/p>\n<p>It also also loads the first 500 images, which is a bridge I&#8217;ll need to cross for some tags soon.<\/p>\n<p>Update, 22 Aug 2025, I&#8217;ve improved this somewhat and moved it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/flickrcal\/\">Flickr By Month<\/a>. Defaults to butterflies now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone with an interest in natural history, I often look forward to seasonal occurrences, the first cuckoo or blackthorn blossom. I also keep track of some of these things here on my blog and on Flickr. 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