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RSS: I forgot the basics!

At least for me, as a Google Reeder refugee (thank you Reeder app), a blog without RSS cannot be called a blog at all.

A note that your average GitHub Pages blog might not automatically get an RSS feed depending on whose template you follow. I think the switch to Chirpy let me down here.

Anyway it’s fixed now, as is my vanity domain name. Find this blog at Blog.jking.id.au and the feed here.

Shortly I’ll add it into the site template so feed readers can detect it too.

Update: I thought I’d fixed this properly but I hadn’t. Contrary to my previous suggestion you don’t need to add jekyll-feed, in fact it’ll conflict. But you probably want the extra meta tag nonetheless. For Chirpy a way of doing this is to add in an _includes/metadata-hook.html with

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<link rel="alternate" href="https://blog.jking.id.au/feed.xml" type="application/rss+xml" />

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