I can haz RSS!

One should write sensible post summaries for the RSS people

2026-02-23, by DrFriendless AstroRSSGray

For some months I’ve been thinking about supporting RSS for the blog. Mostly I think such thoughts while I’m out somewhere with the dog and we are having a rest in the shade. Then when I get home I have to clean the mud / sand / grass off everyone and everything and I forget that idea.

Inevitably most of that water will end up on me

This weekend just gone I had a few minutes while waiting for my lunch to reheat, and I had the brainwave that Astro might have some sort of RSS support. So I googled it, and it did. It seemed really easy so I copied and pasted it, and next minute I had an RSS feed. I added a few more bells and whistles before the oven dinged with my lunch ready. Yes it was that easy.

Today I added a little button onto the blog header so that people could find out that there was such a feed. Then I realised I had no way of knowing whether that little button would do anything, and that I should use an RSS reader to check it.

I haven’t used an RSS reader since Google killed theirs, but it turns out they are still a thing. And this is what they look like:

From the Feeder app on Android

So it has taken about as long to get RSS going nicely as it has to write this blog post. Maybe one day someone will even read my posts!