On: Atom feed format was born 20 years ago

[ttepasse]

> But I think it’s worth noting that a cultural tradition emerged that papered over the flawed spec.

Back in 2013 a developer of a feed crawler wrote a selection of things people get wrong with their feeds.

https://inessential.com/2013/03/18/brians_stupid_feed_tricks

[eduction → ttepasse]

This is definitely a good example of "RSS culture."

(This particular one isn't papering over flaws in the spec, many of thse are advising against doing things that violate either RSS or XML spec, or are subjective opinions additive to the spec (e.g. always have a datetime). But ya this is basically what I mean.)