Introduction to Atom

mplanchard 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.

intrasight 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First iteration of Google's APIs were atom. I do miss XML.

	▲	abustamam an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One of the API providers I use at work returns responses in XML and we use an XML parser to parse it to JSON and even then it's not perfect. What do you like about XML? I feel like I'm missing something.

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perrohunter 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what is old is new again?

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hnlmorg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, this is just old.

Pity though. RSS / Atom was a fantastic concept and it’s a real pity big tech killed them off.

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rambambram 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing is killed. It still exists, it's an open protocol after all. And I choose to use it, it's pretty fun to calmly follow around 2000 feeds from - mostly - blogs from HN. And cars... I need my car blogs.

	▲	geodel 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. That nowadays people or even big companies find it outside their core competency to host their blog, have atom/RSS feeds is not because big tech killing it.

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bawolff 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Meh. Big tech didnt kill it off, it was already dead at that point. Sometimes things just arent popular no matter how much we might want it to be.