As I hinted in my last post [0], I've moved the current slerm-based
phlog to a static one, using my phlogit script [1]. It simply
updates a gophermap top-down with a date, title and a short blurb
(just the first paragraph of text). I think I'll do yearly archives,
with the current year always pointing at /phlog for the sake of
people's bookmarks. For now, I have all of my prior years posts in
the same format, that is 2009-2015 [2]. Along the way I converted
some posts from my old motd blog that had never been posted on the
gopher side.
One bonus with this system is that I don't have to worry about
tracking or preserving file dates - slerm orders the posts based on
mtime, and the script used to publish posts maintains a cache of
timestamps. Here, the date you first wrote each post is recorded in
the gophermap, and won't change even if the underlying file is later
edited.
[0]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/phlog/phlog-updates
[1]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/code/phlogit.txt
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/slugmax/phlog_archives
