When I rebuilt FartDump last year, I wiped the slate clean. I have a working custom CMS that took me several years to build, but I hadn’t planned on needing all of its features when I first slapped the secrets up. It was just a fun little side project; people seem to like it somewhat, so that’s why I’ve been focusing on adding more fun things here.
However, I also threw together a generic sitemap.xml file, which I was manually editing since there were only a handful of pages on the entire site. That changed quickly.
Today, I decided to build a dynamic sitemap; the manual version was just getting the date changed at best whenever I made big edits. All the timestamps were neglected and left at 6 a.m. UTC. Now they’re not only accurate, but also hands-off; the new sitemap.php grabs the last edit time for each file dynamically and outputs everything correctly.
Small win for me. Too boring to put on the updates page.