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Interesting concept. This seems to simplify the writing part. What about the rest? Is the list of posts generated automatically (if so, how?), or does it require manual management? Do you need the code tag, or could it be something more semantically relevant, such as article?


I found that using w3.org's CSS validator shows reference to the page's URI as '[...].php'. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=https%3A%2F...

With that and the author's mention of using PHP for a custom blogging setup, I'm guessing it's being dynamically generated by PHP still.


You can have it auto-generated using directory indexes in Apache. You can even customize them (within limits).

I've toyed with having a minimal blog, where I simply drop text files with file names beginning with their date in a folder and rely on directory indexes as a "home page".


I too was toying with a similar idea, but was finding the devil was in the details.

For instance, you want to sort by publish date, which isn't the same as file creation date. If you add it to the file name, to sort by that, then you can no longer use file names for urls, at least without some transformation.

So I was really curious how others were dealing with that in a clean way.




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