I read this post on Scripting News, and I have to say it really interests me and is causing me to seriously reconsider my previous habits. This article and the commentary below touches on several things, but the topic that resonates most deeply with me is the one of legacy. While this version of bsdeluxe is only 4 posts old, the previous incarnation had hundreds of posts in a self-written (and maintained — or not) PHP & MySQL CMS. Now, I’m pretty sure I have a SQL dump of the site somewhere, but for all intents and purposes, that (incredibly awesome) content is relegated to The Wayback Machine.
In addition to not having all that writing, I also don’t have any of the previous designs. Again, neither the designs, nor the writing are probably anything to write home about, but the fact that I don’t have a record of the work that went into that version of the site is irksome to me. I’m going to be coming up with some sort of something to keep versioned content and static backups. Maybe a WordPress plugin. Maybe something else. Stay tuned, as we shall soon see if me being irked can turn into a completed web project.