90 days ago · 6 min read1279 words · Tech · hide · Fediverse post

I've always felt the need to share links that I find interesting. I think it helps like-minded people find their tribe. I'm unsure if my efforts have helped much, yet I persist. A few days ago I got an email from Antonio Santos asking how the links in my feed work. They have a blogroll page on their site, but it never makes it into their feed, and they wanted to know what I was doing differently. Then a second email came asking whether I write the titles and the slugs by hand, or whether something does it for me. Both are good questions, and the answers aren't really specific to me, so I figured I'd answer them out here instead of just in an inbox. The most important thing to understand is that my links are just another post type, but instead of being posts, they're links. They behave the same way insofar as they get their own folder, and each link I'm sharing gets its own file with its own frontmatter. The part that matters most is that they go into the same feed as everything else,…

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