Detangling Feeds: Niche RSS Options for This Site

This one’s mostly administrivia, but possibly of interest for those of you who only want a subset of what I post here.

As I’ve mentioned previously, this site runs on Hugo with a theme I periodically tweak and/or break. Right now it’s just the right mix of dependencies and simple, static, markdown-based content management. Hugo publishes RSS feeds for the site as a whole, an everything feed, and then separate feeds as index.xml under any area, e.g. posts/, talks/, quilts/, categories/, etc.

Earlier this year I improved, then broke, and then fixed the RSS feeds. More recently, I went back through my old posts and added the “library” category to every library-related post. They’d previously been in a variety of things, from “writing” to “metadata” to “tech.” What this means now is, if you’d only wanted to read my thoughts about library things, there’s a library post RSS feed.¹

And if you’re only here for the quilts, there’s also a quilt-specific RSS feed.

I updated the header RSS icon to be just the /post section (though if you think that’s a mistake, drop me a note via email or on mastodon and let me know, I’m open to regular readers thinking it should be all the everything).

And then if you subscribe to the site as a whole via that URL or by having your feedreader detect RSS from my homepage, you’ll get all my posts + quilts + new pages I add, e.g. my KC3AF landing page, + new publications or talks or whatever. The whole Ruth Kitchin Tillman package. But if you’ve been subscribed for a while and the more recent uptick in all things posting is including stuff you’re not into, the library-specific RSS feed or post-specific feed are alternatives to scrolling past them all in your feed reader.