RSS is still alive, and it is quietly winning

Every few years someone declares RSS dead. Meanwhile every reader app I respect still speaks it, and every site I actually follow publishes it. The format from 1999 outlived its obituaries because it solves one problem simply: I choose what arrives, on my schedule, in full.

Full-text or nothing

This blog ships complete articles in the Atom feed, no truncated teaser. Partial feeds turn readers into click-through traffic, which is the platform's goal, not the writer's.

Sub-sites on this network publish feeds too: the lab notebook and the git service expose simple XML and JSON endpoints that a reader can consume directly. Everything is plain files, cached at the edge.

If you run a site and your feed is an afterthought: it is the only subscription path you own that no app store, algorithm or acquisition can take away. Keep it full-text, keep it stable.