I have now rejigged my log-rendering scripts (used to create this very web site) so that entries are archived on daily pages rather than monthly ones.
This was necessary because I’m writing more entries and longer ones. In recent months I had started splitting each entry in to a leader paragraph that linked to the full article, but this was kind of clunky, and I never automated it. With one day’s posts per archive page this is less of an issue.
It would have made the topic pages awful long, however, so I have switched the non-archive pages to only show the first article on the page in full, and show the rest as links to the archive page. This is much tidier, and makes the site more like a collection of short essays than a weblog, which it really isn’t.
There are still a few details to sort out. The year indexes are confused by the change in format (at the time I write this, the yearly archives omit May), and the newly introduced monthly indexes need to be generated. More on this as I get around to it.
Update (2003-05-21): I have created the new per-month index page. The Archives listing at the top roghjt of the page now has a ‘by topics’ link.