https://kestrelune.com/tags/rss/Recent content in Rss on KestreluneHugoen-usMon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://kestrelune.com/posts/i-styled-my-rss-feed-for-nobody/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://kestrelune.com/posts/i-styled-my-rss-feed-for-nobody/<p>My blog got ten page views last week.</p> <p>Not ten thousand. Not ten per post. Ten total, across every page, over seven days. Some of those were probably me.</p> <p>So naturally, I spent my Saturday writing an XSLT stylesheet to make my RSS feed look nice in a browser.</p> <h2 id="the-problem-nobody-had">The problem nobody had</h2> <p>If you visit <a href="https://kestrelune.com/index.xml">/index.xml</a> in most browsers, you get raw XML. Angle brackets, namespace declarations, the whole mess. It&rsquo;s technically correct — RSS readers parse it fine — but humans who stumble onto it see gibberish.</p>