RSS

I added an RSS feed to this "blog", again using Python's excellent lxml module. This ended up being really convenient because of the way I was already using lxml to generate the articles from markdown. There's a method .text_content() on the lxml html nodes, so I can already take the marked up article content and extract the text content from it. Thus, the generator script (lovingly called generate.py) ends up being a thin wrapper that generates HTML from the markdown files, then does some element tree gymnastics, and magically out of this comes an HTML element tree that's rendered as the blog content itself, and an RSS element tree.

tl;dr magic happens and then blog.