RSS

2021-02-10

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Adding an RSS[0] link to the landing page and, in a touch Bill may appreciate, am going to just jam the full blog post into the feed rather than a truncated snippet. I've gathered that just reading posts in feed is more convinient for many. I myself am acustom to feed-as-link-aggregator[1]; throwing the truncated post and thumbnail image seems to be the done thing for RSS feeds currently. I was truncating partly out of decorum (let you opt into a particular wall of text rather than just throw it in your feed), and also thoughts of driving you to my web page and then Monitizing Those Views. But here we are. Possibly in your feed reader. I hope it's a marginally better experience, and hey, I don't think there's any gold in these particular hills anyway.

I am a long time feed user. I read web-comics. I used to read hundereds, but at some point I lost a whole passle of bookmarks (maybe 15 years ago now), and at some point the list I built up in Reader went away (yes, I too remember google reader). I've got a few dozen now in Feedly. Mabye I should pull together something self hosted. Probably won't though. At least I'm paying for feedly (in hopes of keeping their lights on a few years longer).

Where was I? Oh yes, RSS. It seems to be in the midst of a bi-annual (in whichever sense) resurgance on Hacker News and elsewhere, which is what has me updating the site now. I did have the feed in an approximatly working state a few months ago, but really that just means you may have missed two posts.

On a related note, I've been tagging my posts since I started this most recent spate of blogging and I should really add the related-topic links.

[0] technically Atom, although the distinction seems byzantine and pointless.

[1] I guess I'm habituated by (to show my age) Fark, Slashdot, Reddit, Linkmotron, and probably others, which all follow the Headline:link-to-content pattern.