After posting about having four blogs and a wiki, I felt guilty that things were scattered all over the place. There are a handful of people who actually want to follow all of my posts, and I’ve been making it difficult for them.
For a while, I kept a WordPress instance with a couple of plugins that would consolidate various RSS feeds into a single “Everything Feed”. I lost interest in maintaining it, and grew tired of the plugins nagging me to “Upgrade to Premium!” all the time. It was overkill and a pain, so I pulled the plug. Besides, I shouldn’t have so many blogs, anyway, right?
The dream of having One True Blog remains ellusive. It occurred to me that if I’m going to continue posting to several blogs, I should bring back the Everything Feed, but only if it’s easy to maintain.
My feeds don’t update that often, so I wanted a basic static site that let me trigger updates manually when needed. I sat down with Claude yesterday and we came up with a simple (Node.js) app that parses all of my feeds and generates one master feed. There’s a companion web page containing a link to the feed, and cards for each individual site as well.
You can see it at feeds.baty.net.
It took an hour to build, test, and deploy. “Vibe coding” has derogatory connotations, and is a bad idea in many places, but there’s no denying its utility for small projects like this. I would never have bothered trying to build this on my own. It was fun, fast, and easy. And hopefully useful.