Comment by susam
7 months ago
Recently, I reached a personal milestone: completing 200 content pages on my website. [1] I wasn't really keeping track, but yesterday, I noticed I had published 200 pages on my website. It just quietly happened over the years. Only took 24 years!
By content pages, I mean stuff like blog posts, articles, notes, tools, web games, geek art, etc. (not stuff like index pages, tag list pages, and so on). I mostly write for myself. I do often share my posts on HN and sometimes they get some attention, but most of the time, they do not.
All these pages (posts, tools, games, etc.) serve as a personal record of my journey through various technical interests, from the early days of solving mathematical puzzles and writing assembly programs in MS-DOS with DEBUG.EXE, to my current study of algebraic structures and the quirks of Python programming.
Each page is like a snapshot of a phase of my life. Sometimes, I browse my own website just to enjoy the journey it has captured and to remind myself of the things I've learnt over the years.
Your latest article raises a very interesting point! There are mechanisms that treat URLs as IDs, I didn't really think about feeds tbh :)
You wrote your 200th, I wrote my...I think 4th today :D
Yes, although it is possible to disable that mechanism by setting isPermaLink="true" on the <guid> element: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltguidgtSubelemen...
Correction: I meant to say, isPermaLink="false".