Note: This site is currently "Under construction". I'm migrating to a new version of my site building software. Lots of things are in a state of disrepair as a result (for example, footnote links aren't working). It's all part of the process of building in public. Most things should still be readable though.

URL Structure 2022

This will end up being a response to this conversation: https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1500148282974158849

Sturcturing My URLs

I can totally get behind the idea of dropping extensions from an aesthetic point. I love URLs that look like:

alanwsmith.com/view

but, my take these days is that it's a minority of folks who look at URLs and that for

- talk about redirects - talk about set - talk about browsers hiding the urls - talk about wondering if folks use it - talk about shuffling so you have slug-KSUID instead of KSUID-slug just to make the prettier - talk about moving to a 'posts' directory and how that's freeing since it makes other content types easier to deal with with just a directory structure