feed backfilling

This entry belongs to the antisocial collection. It's primarily meant to be consumed via RSS and is only advertised via RSS Club. Welcome to the club. [JSON Feed, RSS]

so my website has two main feed sources: the main weblog, and this antisocial feed that came into existence via rss club. until now they’ve been fully separate things, but i noticed:

  • other rss clubbers generally have a single unified feed.
  • based on some emails i’ve received, it seems like some readers here just don’t know about the main weblog feed.
  • from the feed reader’s experience, it could be a bit much to subscribe to me twice; i am not very important (positive).

so i decided to update this antisocial feed to also include posts from my main feed. i apologize if this update caused you any displeasure due to your feed reader marking some old-ish posts as unread or something. (the main feed will continue to exclude these all-lowercase antisocial entries.)

if you’d prefer, the classic antisocial-only posts atom and json feeds continue to live on at new urls:

all of this is actually helping me make the design of my static site generator better. in making this change i uncovered a bug. my rss feed builder supports building both atom and rss feeds. when i created this new selection of weblog and antisocial entries, i failed to ensure both canonical entry collections were set to use the atom format. this caused some entries to be missing encoded html in the built feed. excellent win for me, since my current development focus is making arbitrary entry selections, and feeds for those selections, a better experience.