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as a developer, i find validators good for really basic stuff like "i have not produced unparseable garbage" and then i test in Monocle's preview, and then i stop worrying abou tit.
[schmarty]
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2025-12-24 21:01
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And as others are saying, validating the feed we use as a weak proxy for whether the feed is "okay."
[artlung]
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2025-12-24 20:59
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I love the user-centricity of the question and the lack of *certainty* about how the feed readers behave is a function of the space. Often in software producing data exports of various sorts we *can't* know precisely how the data will be used. Which is why we try to be as descriptive as possible about what the data contains, what kind of values it contains, what data it can and can't contain. What are date formats? How do we know a date is
[artlung]
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2025-12-24 20:58
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Like, what do I know how things break or not without 1) installing as many feed readers as possible and 2) publishing a private RSS for testing them all out?
[Al_Abut]
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2025-12-24 20:55
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[Al_Abut] unfortunately, you are unlikely to find any certainty in the world of feed readers outside of the ones you test by hand. for what it's worth i think if you can think of a feature that is complicated in any way, feed readers will not do that. 😂
[schmarty]
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2025-12-24 20:53
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isPermalink is a signal to consumers and clients of RSS. Probably software authors.
[artlung]
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2025-12-24 20:50
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It's just a unique string
[Al_Abut]
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2025-12-24 20:49
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[artlung] that article makes sense to me now but holy hell would it have been confusing before I did a deep dive into GUID. I still can't find a single valid practical and common use case for the `isPermaLink` attribute and that's why I kept spinning out about what to do. I figured there must be a reason and I wasn't finding it, until I learned that the URLs in GUID is also mainly a hygiene pattern too because the LINK tag is what does the
[Al_Abut]
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2025-12-24 20:48
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…and get confused for a web framework or baseball team instead, whoops
[Al_Abut]
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2025-12-24 20:40
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No no, it's a user error - I made the draft in the writing folder, not the drafts folder. Not an Astro error unless I start using Astro as my superhero name to avoid being confused for a chatbot
[Al_Abut]
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2025-12-24 20:39
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