Weekly Padgett

No. 0511 min read

RSS still works. Let the damned reader remember.

grime95 and this blog have RSS feeds, folks. Two real addresses, no invented subscriber army, and one author who still has to write the next entry.

A curved roller conveyor carrying a metal tray stands in a wood-paneled office beside a wicker basket.
File photoDramatization. No rss was harmed.

I can give you a page address and hope you remember to come back, or I can give you a feed address and let your reader remember. For a site publishing a fictional booking every day, I'd rather not assign you homework.

The grime95 feed is feed.xml[1]Ref. 1grime95 RSS feed grime95.com. This blog's feed is index.xml[2]Ref. 2Blog RSS feed blog.patpadgett.com. Both are RSS[3]Ref. 3RSS en.wikipedia.org files in the published site snapshots. Neither needs Facebook or Instagram to decide whether a new entry deserves to appear in front of you, and you don't have to keep touring the website just because you liked something you read there.

Meanwhile, this blog's published feed snapshot contains the old "Awesome Setup" entry and an About item.

The format works. There's just very little in it. I can admire the plumbing all I want, but it cannot cure an author who doesn't publish. Shit. Apparently I can deliver a looooong silence quite efficiently.

References

  1. grime95 RSS feed grime95.com ↩
  2. Blog RSS feed blog.patpadgett.com ↩
  3. RSS en.wikipedia.org ↩
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– Pat

File photoUncropped. Straight off the wire.

Photo deskA curved roller conveyor carrying a metal tray stands in a wood-paneled office beside a wicker basket. Dramatization; no rss was harmed.

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