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I follow many blogs, many of them of individual developers and if you're not on Wordpress or Medium (ugh), then the next common choice is a static website gener
by bad_user 7y ago
I follow many blogs, many of them of individual developers and if you're not on Wordpress or Medium (ugh), then the next common choice is a static website generator like Jekyll or equivalent.
Some of them don't have RSS feeds.
But I just contact them privately and kindly ask them to add an RSS feed.
Most of my requests had positive results, since you just need to integrate a plugin [1] or copy a pre-made atom.xml template, like one of my own [2] but any one will do.
Of course you can go down a rabbit whole in optimizing the CSS, like I usually do, until I decide that a freaking summary of those articles is enough in the RSS feed and be done with it. But that's totally optional.
And if you're doing it manually, don't forget to add a meta tag in the <head> of all your pages, like:
<link rel="alternate" href="/atom.xml" title="Atom feed" type="application/atom+xml">
[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed
[2] https://github.com/monix/monix.io/blob/master/blog/atom.xml https://github.com/monix/monix.io/blob/master/blog/atom.xml
- alexott 7y agoFrom my experience (as maintainer of a Planet Clojure), some sites have feeds, but simply don’t expose them via links or meta. I’m usually trying some standard paths before contacting author: /rss/, /feed/, /atom.xml, etc.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoIf you want to go the extra mile... For blogs that are open source, as many GitHub Pages are, you could even submit a pull request to add the RSS feed! Or write up a blog post of how to add an RSS feed to Jekyll site and submit a ticket w/ the link to your post.