Waking up with Old Posts

I have always loved the On This Day feature on my blog. But the fact that I had to visit it every day defeated the purpose of refreshing a page with posts from the past. It is for me to know what I was thinking back in time. I often miss out on the respective entries if I forget to visit the page on a particular day.

With recent changes to my blogging setup, I wanted to get this aspect right. I did. I created a script that collates the past posts that share today's date and mails them to me. So now I wake up every morning with thoughts from my younger self, going back more than 15 years.

Because this script sits outside my primary blogging platform, I made it parse posts from multiple sources—my current blog, the archives, and my social media accounts (mainly Mastodon). Now, I get a healthy mix of micro and long posts.

I love this new setup. Because what I mail myself is plain, simple HTML, I host it on a subdomain of its own so that I can also visit and reference it.

Can I make this subdomain a daily archive of all my posts? Sure, I can, but I don't want to complicate things unnecessarily for now.