I bet you could do a beautifully readable blog by just dynamically rendering its RSS feed. Why bother statically rendering the home page, month page, day page or pages for each individual post. Dynamic servers are so cheap these days.
from: Scripting News: Sunday, June 2, 2024
I wonder if this is what Dave means: almost 20 years ago, when I started podcasting with my primary school class at Radio Sandaig (Archive.org link), I didn’t really know what I was doing. At first I had created the RSS feed ‘by hand’ in a text editor then made a php page to read the feed in and create the web page. We didn’t have any day, month or even individual episode pages, just the home page. With only 30 or so episodes over 4 or 5 years this was quite manageable.
@davew
Reading: http://scripting.com/2024/06/02.html#a151808
and wondering if this is the sort of thing you meant:
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/rss-first/
perhaps not the ‘beautifully readable’ part!
Scripting News: Sunday, June 2, 2024
@johnjohnston
yes, exactly. that’s how i would start. and if you didn’t have archive pages people might not notice.
@davew RSS as a sort of database.