Elfeed-optimized Blogging

To read my newspapers I load my RSS feed via the elfeed package.
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Also, I identify any RSS feed entry that does not provide the full text. And those live in provisional status. My reflexes are to ask “there’s lots of full-text feeds, why bother with this truncation?”

Jeremy Friesen, A Walk Through My Digital Neighborhood

Jeremy is totally right! – it came to my mind immediately.

I’m using the Hugo static site generator to build this blog. Hugo uses content summaries to display a list of blog entries on the main page. As a result, the Elfeed entry shows a summary of the post instead of the full text.

Many of us – including me – are using Elfeed as an RSS reader, and I have realized that the truncated Elfeed entry may cause inconvenience to the Elfeed users.

Applying some tricks I was able to disable the automatic displaying of summaries on the main page. I hope it has become more comfortable for those who use Elfeed for reading RSS feeds.

Happy elfeeding!

– The Emacs Cat.

P.S. Thanks to Jeremy Friesen for the heads up.