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    Kevin Cox

    kevincox.ca · Personal blog · on HN since 2020

    Kevin Cox, a software developer, writes opinionated posts on RSS feeds, passwords, CORS, deploys, imports and config languages.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for RSS feed best practices, with commenters discussing feed discovery in readers like NetNewsWire and RSS versus Atom.

    Stats for nerds
    18HN people shared it
    27linked in comments
    813story points
    Jan 2025last shared
    2022people per year2025

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      RSS Feed Best Practices
      3 people · 230 points · first shared 2022 · 67 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Wrong by Default
      2 people · 117 points · first shared 2022 · 80 comments on HN
    3. 3
      CORS Is Stupid
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      Typed Config Languages
      1 person · 74 points · first shared 2022 · 57 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Ice Golf
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    6. 6
      Git Bisect-Find
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      Maybe Passwords Are the Future
      3 people · 46 points · first shared 2022 · 7 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Dictionary Compression
      1 person · 44 points · first shared 2022 · 18 comments on HN
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      Private Internet
      1 person · 31 points · first shared 2024 · 14 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Per-User Rate Limiting
      1 person · 21 points · first shared 2022 · 8 comments on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • kevincoxJan 2025

      > but how much of it is RSS-as-such

      Almost all of it. RSS is just a much more specific term than "feed" as many people talk about their Twitter or Facebook "feed". I have yet to see a reader that couldn't handle both RSS and Atom and you will see a mix of formats being produced.

      I wrote a bit more detail about this in the past: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#formats

    • rainworldMay 2022

      NetNewsWire seems to have a problem discovering the feed from index pages (e.g. https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/).

    • rambambramMay 2022

      I want to follow your website's feed (at https://kevincox.ca/feed.atom). Good article!

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