Blogging

I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

but we were forcefed STEM at every turn by school, media, and most importantly, our parents. It's where the money is, and not money for money's sake, but money for job and financial security. Clearly, the siren song was hard to resist, not just for me, but for droves of people my age.

Great post that I feel like is more relevant than ever. I don't regret my decision in pursuing CS because I'm quite passionate for it, but I know a few peers that regret it (one of which switched to another college 3 years into his Bachelor's).

There's definitely a lot of misleading that happens when people talk about tech jobs. One of the first lectures in my college was the professor praising people for choosing CS, assuring them it's the right choice, then showing us a graph of average salaries in the industry. "You see, web developers earn $110K per year! Software engineers a little more so!". It also came with more talk about how companies are always on the lookout for talent and finding a job should be super easy compared to other fields.

Maybe that was the case ~10 years ago, but it certainly doesn't seem to be now. I hope that more instructors would be more honest that CS is not for everyone, it's a long and difficult journey that not everyone would want to put up with. It's also not as lucrative and stable as some people romanticize it to be. Just my $0.02.

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8881703

Intro to a blog series this person is starting up for constructing features for their game in bevy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10738584

Pretty good write-up on the advantages of self-hosting versus the woes of platform-as-a-service.

I don't agree with everything here but I generally agree that it feels like there's a significant lack of exploration and creativity. Every company is too afraid to create something new, and everything seems to be following safe trends.

Pretty cool, honestly.

This post is my personal blogpost on releasing my newest project and how it (thankfully) got fairly popular.

Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?

The creator of Bearblog discusses his experience in creating and managing a blogging platform.