This past Sunday night I decided that I should check to see how traffic to the ‘ol site was doing. I had been neglecting monitoring the site for a while because, well, I was busy on Wombat, and because traffic was predictable. I knew pretty much who had already linked to me, and how much traffic that typically brought in.

Sunday nights are usually slow. But not this one. There was definitely a growth in traffic, and it appeared to be coming from Cocoa Dev Central. hmmm… that’s odd. Why would anyone over there link to me? Using my powerful investigative and deductive skills, I uncovered this (it was on the front page):

Cocoa Dev Central

Oh my.

I have to admit my first reaction was: Why did they link to me? I mean, they should be linking to Wil Shipley or Daniel Jalkut, who actually write about Cocoa regularly, and have a great deal more experience with it than me. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy to see the link, but I was worried that people would assume I was some sort of Cocoa master, or that I only wrote about Cocoa.

After a while I began to relax and realize that all the other blogs cover somewhat diverse topics as well, and that I had been covering Cocoa recently, in the form of Core Data. So I calmed down. Calm. Calm is good.

Then came today. I’m not sure if it was because Scott Stevenson announced the redesign of Cocoa Dev Central on his site or what, but I got an even bigger spike in traffic. Scott’s post also confirmed my suspicion that he was the one running Cocoa Dev Central. So, thank you Scott. I really appreciate the link.

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I’m still in shock that I’m on the same list that includes Wil Shipley and John “Wolf” Rentzsch. Hopefully they’re not too offended about the whole thing.

I should also point out the other new addition to the Cocoa Dev Central blog roll: Cocoa Samurai by Colin Wheeler. He appears to be just as surprised as I am, albeit a bit more on topic with the whole Cocoa thing.