RSS feeds and short stories are live!

Do people even know what RSS feeds are anymore?

Ill start with the short stories, since people know what those do. As the title says, but I'm obliged to repeat in the post, "short stories are live!"

That's right. I'm actually writing stuff for this website. Its not just a thought experiment to see what someone does when given their own domain name. Along with my blog, there is now short stories for you to consume. There's no going back now. Well, there is going back, but it sounds more dramatic the other way around.

At the time of writing there's only a single short in there, but that might change sometime within the next decade. Don't quote me on that though.

"That might change sometime within the next decade."
-Tim

Damn it. That's what I get for calling my own bluff.

Huh?

Right. Now that there's two entire things to keep track of, how will you ever know when I update my website?

*RSS feed hobbles in on its ancient cane*

I keep making this joke that people don't know what RSS feeds are, but its probably not even true. If you're confused, just look up "RSS feed" on Wikipedia or something. I'm not explaining this shit.

In a technicality: The feeds are actually Atom feeds, but its all the same anyways.

If you want to track all the updates for this entire site, than I've provided a site-wide feed (also visible at the top of the page). If you only care about a specific "subdomain" of the website, like the blog or short stories, than you can track the domain-specific feeds present on each index page. If your big toe is at least 20% larger than the norm you will be taken in for questioning.

You're welcome, by the way. You would not believe the ass-pain it was to set up these readers to be auto-generated at the same time I generate this site. It was like 8 straight hours of work, most of which was spent trying not to cry. You better be fucking thankful for your silly little feeds.

Many RSS feeds show the entire post/story/whatever in their "feed entries". This way you don't even have to visit the website in question to read the post. I don't do this. Why? Because my web host is a "pay for what you use" type host and I can't reasonably quadruple the size of my site just because you didn't want to load an external web page. You would be loading the equivalent of my entire website every time you checked the site-wide feed, and that's just unacceptable.

I know that nobody reads this shit, but the dark truth is that I made this post just to test if my RSS feed reader will update when the site updates.

If it doesn't work I'm going to burn the whole Antarctic to the sea bed.

-Tim