From ca8e6824eaa711105f4092365792720c9dde026b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:21:59 +0100 Subject: remove Astro website --- website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro | 90 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 90 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro (limited to 'website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro') diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro b/website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro deleted file mode 100644 index cbb6237..0000000 --- a/website/src/pages/blog/subscribe.astro +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ ---- -import Page from "../../layouts/Page.astro"; - ---- - - -
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How to subscribe to my blog

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- The short version: use my RSS file or my - gemlog. -

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- If neither of those things means anything to you, no worries. You could - just look at my website every once in a while, but that gets old. A better - way is to use my RSS file. Here's how. -

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- An RSS file, if you don't know, is a file containing a list of posts in a - format that's so stupid even computers can understand it. Mine is at - https://joeac.net/blog/rss.xml. - Since computers can understand it, you can get software to read it - automatically and tell you when I've made a new blog post. That's much less - hassle than having to check manually yourself! -

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- I'm not the only person serving RSS files, of course. You might not have - heard of them, but they're actually all over the Web. In the early days of - the Web, everyone was using them, so they've ended up built in to a whole - load of foundational Web technology, and hence ubiquitous, even if most - Web users have forgotten they exist. Once you've subscribed to my blog, - you can subscribe to basically any blog, podcast, or YouTube channel, and - a lot of other Websites for news, organisations, whatever. Point a - well-designed RSS aggregator or RSS reader at most Websites, and it'll - automatically find an associated RSS feed. -

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- If you're not persuaded, try reading - - Cory Doctorow explaining why RSS is ridiculously good - . He's terrifyingly persuasive. Also, read his novels! -

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- If you just want to give it a go quickly, probably the quickest way is to - use someone else's RSS aggregator that they'll let you use as a service. - Feedly and - Inoreader have free tiers. -

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- If you want to have a little more control, you can self-host an RSS - reader, like Tiny Tiny RSS, - Miniflux, or - FreshRSS. But why would you do that? - Self-hosting is complicated! Why not just use a normal, local app? Here are - some options for that you might want to investigate. All these are active - free and open-source software projects at the time of writing. -

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- For the terminally geeky, there is also - Newsboat. I used it for ages, it works - fabulously, but it's all in the terminal, so you have to be OK with that. -

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- You can also just enter 'RSS feed reader' into your favourite search - engine, software distribution, or app store and see what comes up. Try - adding 'FOSS' into the query to prioritise free, open-source software. -

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