Experimenting with finally having that linkblog: https://t10a.link/
Now with RSS (but no QA on the RSS), archive pages (but no main archive page), permalinks (in a way that will break when I delete a post), etc.
@vruba oh this is so very exciting, thank you!
Have you considered a style where the RSS points directly to the site you're linking and not links on t10a.link? It doesn't work well if you think of your linkblog as a small blog that might have multiple links (like https://t10a.link/posts/423_ppm/5) but is very nice if you are strictly posting one link per post.
@nelson Interesting! I’m willing to try this. I basically don’t use RSS at all, so I’m IFR here.
@nelson What I have in mind here is something that’s more like a traditional blog in terms of amount of commentary, but that (almost) always has a main external link. But these things usually change in the first few months.
@vruba Ah, gotcha, if you want commentary you probably want a permalink for each post, and then in that case the RSS should point to that post on your site.
My linkblog is different. I do just a sentence or two of commentary and there is literally no permalink or page for an individual post. You can see how it works on the site and my tech notes. https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/ https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/category/linkblog/
I could talk your ear off on this topic but will show restraint. I'm excited to see you blogging more! My main advice is to set it up so that adding a new link is really easy for you. Low effort = more posts.
@vruba your loving public gently requests more linkblog posts! I hope my enthusiastic comments about complicated technical stuff didn't discourage you from the basic simple joy of sharing things.
@nelson Thank you! I got bogged down in a long post but it should start up again soon.
@vruba thank you!
@nelson Well, I think I did something wrong, because even passing the W3C validator, and looking roughly correct to my untrained eyes, the feed is coming up bank where I test it.
@nelson There’s been a more recent post since last night.
@nelson (Also I had to reconstruct some old stuff and that messed up UUIDs and timestamps, so … there’s a reason it’s in beta.)
@vruba oh right, the most recent post isn't on Feedly. Feed looks fine now, maybe some old UUID / timestamp got stored and broke things. Only thing for it is to post more links.
@vruba lol I hear ya. Here's my notes specifically on whether a linkblog entry has its own page, based on a survey of the publishing form. https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2022/07/06/linkblog-design/