Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem.
The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. Atom feeds have RFC 5005 links. I don't recall such for RSS 2.0, but it wouldn't be that hard to extend, I guess.
j3s [3 hidden]5 mins ago
clever. i personally don't see the appeal of limiting my blog to rss readers only - i like having a web link that can be shared. this would almost be better as a sort of covert blog, like maybe a smallnet adjacent thing -- no potential to be shared on hackernews is a pro for many ppl.
ymolodtsov [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Too few people use RSS to limit your audience to this.
Have a website.
fudgeonastick [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I once implemented my blog as pure RSS, but also a website that could render arbitrary RSS feeds as a normal looking blog. (Passing the RSS feed via query parameter).
The nice part was that the bit that was mine was just a single static file.
The awkward part was the URLs looked crappy.
xnx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It used to be possible to make bare RSS very readable with XSLT.
evanwalsh [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Barry! Funny seeing you here. Slick design on this
HN.zip
https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem.
The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. Atom feeds have RFC 5005 links. I don't recall such for RSS 2.0, but it wouldn't be that hard to extend, I guess.
Have a website.
The nice part was that the bit that was mine was just a single static file.
The awkward part was the URLs looked crappy.
(To be clear, I didn’t create Sourcefeed.)