This page lists all the devlog years that are present on this site. Note how the top navigation menu doesn’t link to this page, but instead links to the latest devlog year directly.
The reason for adopting this structure is to make sure that links that exist in the wild to entries to our devlog don’t become invalidated when a new year comes around and we rotate the devlog feed.
Devlog rotation ensures that you don’t have a single page that grows indefinitely, eventually compromising your editing expreience and worsening your user’s browsing experience. You can use any arbitrary policy (even deleting old entries if you are fine with having a more ephemeral devlog), but cutting them by year is a good default option.
When rotating a devlog all you have to do is create a new page with a newer date set in the frontmatter date field, and update the page description to let people know that this page is not the current year’s devlog anymore.
The latest devlog year is also available via RSS feed.