Adding RSS to a static site

Adding RSS and Atom feeds to this site

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Posted on 2024-12-30

At the prompting of this github issue, I’ve added RSS and Atom feeds to this site.

Overall this was pretty easy to get something working! Since this site is just static files deployed to Github Pages, I just built some XML as strings in Elixir and wrote them to disk. EZPZ! However, this happens to be my blog and if I’m gonna do anything, I’d rather do it the fun way.

I’d like to see if I can get it to work using HEEX templates. Then, I think it should be reasonably easy to make a simple knock-off of Phoenix.VerifiedRoutes that just gets the “routes” from the list of Posts. Right now I’ve got a simple url helper that gives me a hard-coded absolute URL, but I think having ~p would be slick.

I think it will also be the time I finally get around to having a real dev server that watches the filesystem for changes.

I’m going to push what I have so far and close the issue, but I’ll be back with another post about getting fancy with the XML generation.

Check out the PR here to see what the code looks like.