Adding a Feed to the Phlog
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Wed Nov 17 00:21:20 EST 2021

Quick entry to mark a new milestone for the phlog
--an atom feed!

This was a pretty simple adaptation of my genatom
script originally described on the blog post
use-feeds(7) [1]. It just parses index.gph for
lines that have the [[Date] Title|path...] format
and spits out the right XML.

Potentially the most interesting decision here
wasn't actually the crafting of the feed, but
rather whether to serve the feed over Gopher
exclusively or HTTP and Gopher.

The argument for HTTP is that most feed
reader clients can't handle gopher://--I know for
sure newsboat doesn't. So by putting it on HTTP,
it could at least be read by a wider audience...

I ended up choosing to keep it gopher-only, since
this is, after all, "gopher exclusive content" :)
I'll find or build a feed reader that can handle
it!

The source for the gophatom.sh generator can be
found in the "code" section of this gopherhole [2]

[1]: https://alexkarle.com/use-feeds.html
[2]: gopher://alexkarle.com/1/code