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PSA: RSS and Atom XML Feeds FailureHello dear readers. Earlier this week, if you noticed a lot of new (actually duplicate) entries in your feed reader from me—I apologize! To fix it, mark all as read in your feed reader. If your feed reader didn’t fetch during the time I was messing with all of this, it might not have seen the wrong ID (then you’re fine!) What Happened?I should have triple checked before pushing the revised XML templates live, but I failed to pick up on one of the very specific date syntax errors in the Tag URI I used for the ID field (Atom) and GUID field (RSS). The feed ID is a unique string for each entry; with my mistake deployed (before I fixed ~10 min later), feed readers saw the two different IDs for each post and thinks they’re new posts. Hence, the duplication nightmare… 😥 There were a lot of inconsistencies in my Hugo XML templates, which was what triggered me to update all of them (a dangerous move!) I made the following changes: Added all the required…

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