Kevin Cox
kevincox.ca · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Kevin Cox, a software developer, writes opinionated posts on RSS feeds, passwords, CORS, deploys, imports and config languages.
What HN saysHN links it for RSS feed best practices, with commenters discussing feed discovery in readers like NetNewsWire and RSS versus Atom.
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kevincox · 2025-01-16
> but how much of it is RSS-as-such
Almost all of it. RSS is just a much more specific term than "feed" as many people talk about their Twitter or Facebook "feed". I have yet to see a reader that couldn't handle both RSS and Atom and you will see a mix of formats being produced.
I wrote a bit more detail about this in the past: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#formats
rambambram · 2022-05-07
I want to follow your website's feed (at https://kevincox.ca/feed.atom). Good article!
rainworld · 2022-05-07
NetNewsWire seems to have a problem discovering the feed from index pages (e.g. https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/).