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I'm blogging with Raw HTML since the beginning of this year. The biggest missing piece is probably RSS support which makes me sad.

I can write a script to generate that from the list of article but I'm not sure if there's better way.

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If you're using markdown and js, in what sense are you blogging in raw HTML? Not to doubt but it feels like a qualified version of the underlying state of affairs.

I blog (for work) on WordPress and hate it. I could imagine using org mode or markdown, pandoc to emit HTML with some tuning and a simple script to publish via sftp.

It's you're rawdogging your HTML then it's not that hard to rawdog RSS too.

View source on this page: https://justine.lol/rss.xml

I got the template from a friend.

Very easy.

If I turn off Javascript, your blog breaks in ways that shouldn't be possible if it really was HTML (specifically, links and images disappear[0]). You're not blogging in raw HTML, but markdown. Your homepage is the most 'raw HTML' page I can find on your blog, because it uses real HTML elements to display things, and doesn't even use JS or CSS.

[0] it's particularly bad on https://devpoga.org/cheap-complexity/

Perhaps this would work for you? https://feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com/

It's a GitHub Action that regularly scrapes your page and checks for new entries, turning it into an RSS feed. Set up a redirect yourblog.com/feed -> you.github.io/feeds/feed.xml, then you're golden.

The moment you add an RSS script you cease to use raw HTML and start to use your own bespoke site generator.

On the plus side, a personal project only changes when you intend for it to, so you don't need to worry about breakage. (Unless your scripting language breaks.)

RSS is human-readable XML, so you could just manually update your RSS file every time you write a new post, in a text editor.

Bro just write your blog in rss, no styling needed. You need that raw RSS

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