Because there's a staggering wealth of pages and projects on my web server that have been all but lost to obscurity, I've begun to compile a sitemap for my website.

I started by writing a PHP programme to recursively search every directory on the server and generate nested lists of directories and HTML/PHP pages.

It spat out...let's see, 2227 directories and pages (an excerpt pictured above). This is every single directory and page on my site, minus excluded folders like source files for installations. Many, many things in here wouldn't go on the sitemap, including (among other things) outmoded projects that no longer work with new web standards.

I've spent most of the evening paring down that directory dump into a list of pages that are still working and worthwhile to share. And after all that work, a total 142 pages will be on the sitemap. I don't know how to illustrate just how much that is, but basically...this number is after grouping individual parts of collections (e.g. chapters in stories, posts on a blog) under a single entry each. e.g. from the screenshot above, "worldmap", "writefolio", and "eagles and swans" will each be one entry in the sitemap.

This is 142 entire creative projects, blogs and repositories.

I've also unearthed many things I genuinely forgot existed. There are files from as far back as 2015 in here, some of which are, despite their age, still pretty damn cool. Apparently, I've programmed 3 separate chat-based hypertext engines and 6 different personality quiz frameworks. This is very me.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the day it goes live! Which will be soon. Someday. Eventually.

https://circlejourney.net/sitemap.html

First draft is here and hoooo boy there's a lot on it

Because there's a staggering wealth of pages and projects on my web server that have been all but lost to obscurity, I've begun to compile a sitemap for my website.

I started by writing a PHP programme to recursively search every directory on the server and generate nested lists of directories and HTML/PHP pages.

It spat out...let's see, 2227 directories and pages (an excerpt pictured above). This is every single directory and page on my site, minus excluded folders like source files for installations. Many, many things in here wouldn't go on the sitemap, including (among other things) outmoded projects that no longer work with new web standards.

I've spent most of the evening paring down that directory dump into a list of pages that are still working and worthwhile to share. And after all that work, a total 142 pages will be on the sitemap. I don't know how to illustrate just how much that is, but basically...this number is after grouping individual parts of collections (e.g. chapters in stories, posts on a blog) under a single entry each. e.g. from the screenshot above, "worldmap", "writefolio", and "eagles and swans" will each be one entry in the sitemap.

This is 142 entire creative projects, blogs and repositories.

I've also unearthed many things I genuinely forgot existed. There are files from as far back as 2015 in here, some of which are, despite their age, still pretty damn cool. Apparently, I've programmed 3 separate chat-based hypertext engines and 6 different personality quiz frameworks. This is very me.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the day it goes live! Which will be soon. Someday. Eventually.