small update - rss support.
authored: Feb 26, 2026, 9:52 PM EST
had a weird amount of trouble with this for what it is
Hi! Viv here with another small update. I fiddled a little bit with 11ty's RSS plugin again, to see if I could get it to use manual templates instead of one virtual template, in order to generate multiple feeds. Long story short - it worked, and now if you somehow in 2026 have some feed reader that supports only RSS rather than both RSS and Atom, you can now find a feed for you here!
To make the short story long again, I was able to get the plugin to work, but I couldn't quite follow the documentation exactly; putting addPlugin(rssPlugin); with no arguments after caused it to throw an error relating to virtual templates saying it couldn't find the value of "collections.post", because there's no default value for that, I think. But if I do give it arguments to create a feed from a virtual template, it generates the other feeds just fine, so. Nice! (I also ran into a little issue with regards to the virtual-template-generated feed conflicting with the manual-template-generated feed, because they have permalinks set, (and I meant for one to replace the other, so they were the same,) but that was pretty easily fixed by just giving the virtual one a different name from the one I actually want to use.)
So.. everything works, I just have to have a secret third feed on the website at the moment. To save on my precious Neocities file storage, (not that I'm using that much of it, yet, or that this would save that much, unless I start making really long blog posts,) I decided to try to make the dummy feed about as small as I could reasonably manage, to a degree. But at the end of the day it's still a little jank. If I set the post limit on the feed to 0, it uncaps, so it'll make as large of a thing as it can, for if I want to have a full archive there in the feed. The filesize of that could add up, so it's good practice to not let the feeds get too big. But also, for my dummy feed, I didn't want to put any posts at all, and a limit of 1 was probably fine enough but out of curiosity i tried a post limit of 0.5. This does not make sense because 0.5 is not an integer, but I guess the javascript of it all worked out and the limit == 0 condition returns false while still rounding down and not putting any posts into the generated feed. So that's fun. The sentinel value for 'uncap post limit' probably would make more sense if it was -1 or something like that instead, but this is a weird edge case that I'm resorting to due to other weird erroneous behavior so I'm not too fussed about it.
Anyway! I hope you enjoy reading more about technical details of my website. Another weekend's coming up again, so as long as I keep track of my responsibilities maybe I can put together some more stuff for the website that actually expresses things about like, my interests aside from making This Website In Particular! I threw together some notes earlier of things I'd like to consider doing at some point, such as 'talking more about my other interests and opinions and such' and 'making silly little low-res emotes remniscent of old forums' and 'posting my art or my ocs', so maybe I can work off of those and not forget who I am and what I'd like to put on my Website. Well, thanks for reading my blog posts. Later!