You know how it is. You register a domain, you start doing a personal project
like keeping track of what Amiibos you have so you can check it on your
smartphone when you're at a store and you find a good deal so you don't
accidentally buy one that you already have three of because you hadn't made the
list sooner. 

Then you decide that making the list of Amiibos was such a good idea that you
can make more lists to track more things. Like games for old consoles. And,
then, since tracking the old consoles is so useful, you realize that you can add
current consoles, too. 

And then you start adding things like a changelog on the index page so you can
keep a running list of the things that you're doing. And what's a changelog
without dates to keep everything organized. And, since you're putting dates on
here, you could also put links to each item in the changelog-cum-index. And
favicons are small, you should make one of those, too.

And then you notice that Google et al are crawling your site looking for content
that hasn't existed in years because the previous owners of your domain used it
for porn, so you make a sitemap to tell those search engines where the content
is because they can't find it. (It also turns out that they can't find it
because you built the site using XML and XSLT and web crawlers don't know how
XML and XSLT work, even though they've been web standards for over 20 years.
You're only using XML and XSLT because you took a class on it in your college
days and you thought it looked 'neat-o'.)

Then one day you look around and you realize that you've built a website. It's
not complete (websites never are), but you keep thinking about features you can
add and then spend a few days figuring out how to implement them, like a
template for writing articles. Then you spend a lot of time thinking about new
articles to write to use your fancy new template system.

And then one day as you're tweaking the CSS so that you can use a blockquote in
an article that you're writing about the topic of the day, you come to a
realization. You realize that the simple couple of pages that you threw together
in a weekend has slowly grown into an actual website, and then you write a phlog
article wondering how exactly that happened.

Last update 20 Aug 2019