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blog.notryan.com/010.txt                                       Wed, 06 May 2020
Ryan Jacobs                                                      01:30:00 -0700
                           rss.c : Article Rendering
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I've just updated rss.c to render the entire blog post inside the <description>
tag. RSS readers should render everything neatly now -- in the format of the
gods: 80-character-wide monospace plaintext.

Aside from that, I'm geniunely curious as to how many people added this feed
to their reader. I think that's part of the appeal of RSS -- it doesn't offer
all of those hyper-optimizing metrics by default. It puts the onus of
viewership on the client, rather than the originator of the content. With RSS,
it's no longer up to Google/Facebook/Twitter/Reddit algorithms to determine
what content to shove in front of our eyeballs. That's kind of nice.

If I modify my server.c file to log requests, then I suppose I could gather
metrics on how often the rss.xml file is being polled.

Anyways, I am curious -- shoot me an email if you had this automatically show
up in your feed. And if you have a blog, send me your RSS feed too! I'd
like to subscribe. I think RSS is almost a litmus test for quality content.
XKCD offers RSS so it must be good.

-- Ryan