@john_b
holy fuck it's been a year since I started this thing

@KAutumnrain Time flies when you're having fun / in the shit 😆

@john_b

Ain't that the truth lmfao

@KAutumnrain
//TODO: figure out how to style my feed xml so it doesn't look like technical garbage

(I'm *not* a webdev-minded person, but I'm learning!)

@john_b

admittedly I'm cheating a bit with nikola xp

@john_b https://github.com/KAutumnrain/blog.autumnrain.cc/blob/main/rss.xml

The code genuinely looks just as fucked tbh

@KAutumnrain That makes the second new-to-me SSG I've learned about in the past two days.

@john_b

I find it somewhat difficult to recommend considering the theme support is actually pretty terrible and has issues i.e. opengraph tags not working on some themes no matter how much you try to add them.

I was making my own but it takes time and energy, things I am admittedly a little short on these days.

@KAutumnrain I feel that.

I feel that. I've poked at a few different SSGs to see if they might fit my needs a bit better than Hugo, but I've also invested _all this time_ into getting my Hugo-powered blog to look/function the way I want, and the thought of having to learn a completely new approach is pretty daunting.

@john_b

This is precisely it. So ultimately I've found just modifying whatever is easily available, if it's an option, to be the easiest approach for now, just something I can do over time whenever I can get around to it.

@KAutumnrain I kanged Nikola's XSL styling, and tweaked it to make it fit my theme. (Also replaced the DDG search link with one pointed to my SearXNG instance for good measure.)

I'm pretty pleased with the result. Thanks for the inspiration (and the distraction from Doing Work 🙄).

@john_b

lmfao happy to oblige. Looks pretty good!