Clicking on any RSS feed link in this blog will now show a styled page, where one article nicely lines up after the other. I quite like the result! It reads like a newspaper and improves the UX: before, clicking on the same links would either show you a blob of XML or ask you to open an RSS reader external to the browser.

On a scale from “I must absolutely ship this!” to “No one even knows what RSS feeds are anyway”, I think to this like tending of my digital garden 🪴. Rather than something impactful, a relaxing pleasure I entertain while enjoying a simple craft. Realizing that I could re-use the stylesheet of the main website and keep things neat and tidy made it better.

You can take a look at the results yourself:

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Technically, the jekyll-feed plugin powering this blog’s feeds supports styling. I added a feed.xslt.xml file to the site root and it automatically picked it up.