Thu Oct 1 03:13:32 PM EDT 2026

blogs

creating an rss feed

heres an example rss feed: example rss feed

so if we take that and edit it

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">

<channel>
  <title>rattlebones Home Page</title>
  <link>https://rattlebones.neocities.org</link>
  <description>rattlebones blog</description>
  <item>
    <title>lets try rss</title>
    <link>https://rattlebones.neocities.org/blog.post.rss.html</link>
    <description>playing with rss</description>
  </item>
</channel>

</rss>

then we save it at blog.post.rss.rss.xml

that doesnt work

so we find and consult the documentation [1]. immediately see it should work

so name it .txt

mv blog.post.rss.rss.xml blog.post.rss.rss.txt

still doesnt work.

its probably the pandoc render script

yeah that was it. needed to make it know what to do with .txt files. maybe that should be more generic.

and it works!

now to find an rss feed reader to try it with

and thats gonna be newsboat, an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter which i never used because i cant remember how to spell it. now imagine if Newsbeuter were source-available.

adding feeds. [2] says to add it to ~/.newsboat/urls. wow thats easy. imagine if it wasnt and it was source-available. ill stop :)

so we add

mkdir ~/.newsboat -pv 
mkdir: created directory '/home/vague/.newsboat'
echo 'https://rattlebones.neocities.org/blog.post.rss.rss.txt' >> ~/.newsboat/urls

and try it

Newsboat 2.36.0 - Articles in feed 'rattlebones Home Page' (0 unread, 1 total) - https://rattlebones.ne
   1    Oct 01         lets try rss

wow that worked pretty well!

and save what we learned…

newsboat

and theres an rss feed.

oh oops had a typo in the feed. next thing is to write a script to generate the rss feed now that weve converted the main page into a bearblog like list of posts. but i can save that for later

references

1 https://rssguide.neocities.org/
2 https://newsboat.org/releases/2.44/docs/newsboat.html#_adding_feeds