Does redblobgames.com have its own RSS/Atom feed? In its footer there is a link to the feed for your other blog, simblob.blogspot.com. I'd love to keep tabs on both of these blogs in my feed reader.
The longer answer is: I'm not actually sure how to solve this problem. The second site, simblob.blogspot.com, is an actual blog. It's time ordered. It has posts. But the main site, redblobgames.com, is structured as a "living document" site, not as a blog. Things are not posted in order.
I could try an automated feed that looks for any changes on pages. But I make small changes all the time. For example on [1] I changed "So far we’ve made step have the same" to "So far we’ve made steps have the same". I've been fixing a lot of broken links and typos this week, so there are lots of pages that have changed, but not in meaningful ways. I don't want those showing up on the RSS feed.
The second problem with an automated feed is that I have pages that aren't meant for publication. I collect notes for myself before I write an article, sometimes for years. For example [2] is something I may never get around to publishing. I don't want new pages to show up on the RSS feed, because most of them aren't ready yet, and some may never be.
So an alternative is for me to manually add entries to an RSS feed when they're "meaningful". I'm trying to do this by posting to the simblob.blogspot.com blog. An example is [3] where I describe the changes I'm making to the mapgen4 page. These wouldn't have been picked up by an automated feed because the HTML didn't change, but the interactive part did, so I wrote about it. Another example is [4] which is about changes to the hexagon page. I'll also go into a lot more details about why I made those changes [5].
But manually writing blog posts means there will be changes that won't show up in the RSS. Ideally I'd have some kind of automated way to flag meaningful changes to the site, but until then I am trying to write meaningful changes on the blog.
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