Blog Numbering

I've decided to start a new blog: this one. One question is, how should blog entries' filenames be numbered? I want:

• Numbers to increase in lexicographic order, and
• Numbers to be able to increase forever.

This means we can't use a fixed-width numbering scheme, like 0001.html, 0002.html, 0003.html, ... because we'll reach 9999.html.

The answer is to number them 1.html, 2.html, 3.html, ... and forget about lexicographic order.

- Sam

(posted June 26 '16)