Integration of the Byline Feed Extension

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS/Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also popping up around this 30-year-old technology. It’s just so wonderfully independent and fits the trend of moving away from increasingly terrible platforms at the protocol level and returning to the free, open internet. A good example of this is, of course, my new daily companion Bubbles by Ben, but also initiatives like Sourcefeed by Terry Godier, which rely on RSS-based content publishing WITHOUT a dedicated website. Write, Feed, done. Terry recently published another project that Ben had addressed in a similar way a few days earlier. Ben’s was about integrating a Fediverse address into the commenting process on Bubbles via a meta tag on one’s own blog. In other words, enriching the posts extracted from the feed with additional information about the blogger. Terry now has published a…