#rss

I noticed my following feed was broken earlier this week. It turns out it's been broken since the updated site went live at the beginning of the year. Whoops! 😅

The issue was with my static site generator and how it was parsing OPML data files. With that fixed I can now drop a lightly modified OPML file (with paywalled #RSS feeds removed) into a data folder and get an auto-generated following page. 🤌🏽

This whole idea was inspired by this @anildash.com blog post that I think about way too often.

Speaking of #RSS, I love this piece by @anildash.com.

I've always wondered if one of the biggest differences in adoption between podcasts and text-based RSS feeds is that "podcast" has a catchy ring to it, and "really simple sindication" does not. Neither does "RDF site summary". It makes me further wonder if @textcasting.org (by @scripting.com) is more important as (re-)branding for text-based RSS feeds than it is as an actual new standard.

I've been looking for good resources to introduce people to #RSS and this looks like a great one by @interconnected.org!

Originally posted on @sheesh.blog.

Long time listener, first time caller

I can't remember the last time I read a book from front to back¹, but I am a voracious reader. The thing is, I prefer to read "the internet" instead of books.

At some point early on in my internet journey I discovered #RSS and I immediately fell in love². My RSS feed became like my own personal newspaper, where I was the curator. I could add and remove columnists blog feeds as my interest graph would change over time. I was one of the many³ who decried the death of Google Reader. RSS lives on, but it's not as ubiquitious as it once was.