2023-09-14 How to manually curate a feed for Oddµ

Recently, I wondered whether to have a feed or not. I decided to manually curate a feed. When using a wiki like Oddmuse, every edit can be flagged as a "minor" edit and the way I wrote the feed generating extension meant that you essentially had to remember to tick the box at all times except for the one edit you thought was the big "publish" button. You want every blog page to show up just once in the feed. It won't do for the page to reappear with every edit!

=> to have a feed or not

This is why I figured I wanted some sort of manual feed curation. So now the red button is "elsewhere" and decoupled from the act of editing pages.

I do this using a Perl script. Currently this script needs to be called from the command-line.

=> a Perl script

perl add-items-to-feed.pl wiki/2023-09-14-demonstrations.md 

Let's see how long it takes until I rewrite this in Go and add it to Oddµ. 😄

In order for this to work I also added a "html" command to Oddmu: oddmuse html pagename prints the HTML for a page (if called in correct directory).

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• 2023-09-22*: I've added automatic feed generation to the wiki again. It's based upon bullet lists. If a page (like index) has a bullet list with asteriskes (important: the bullet list with minuses are ignored), then the first ten links in those lists are used. Example: index.rss

=> index | index.rss

• 2023-09-23*: As I mixing the typo asterixes → asteriskes, I can't help feel that ASCII would be more compelling with Asterix and Obelix characters…