I've been refactoring the RSS feeds on the blog the past few days. I now generate the feeds without any feed libraries. It's just plain old templates. Total freedom. No more fighting against other people's vision of reality. I needed to add some custom namespaces, and just updated the template and my static site generator handles all the data preparation. Easy.

Over the years I've gotten into some pickles using various RSS libraries. But you don't need them!

I've added the <source:markdown> and <source:linkFull> namespaces. Here's some docs on the source namespace.

I've also added the podcasts back to the blog, and with a little help from an LLM it was super eady to whip up an RSS 2.0 feed with all the things you need to have it work in itunes. With LLMs and templates you can do most things :)

Sometimes when you get into a tangle a tried and tested way to proceed is to step back, list the tangles as best you can, step back again, look at your tangle description as if you were looking at an expensive piece of art in an art gallery.

Take a break.

Take another peek, don't get scared or overwhelmed.

Think about how you could isolate the different tangles, which no doubt all affect each other. They often do. Then create a minimal example. After which you will be several steps closer to your goal.

You might need to create several of these.