First Issue

Published on: 2012-08-22

I have already ran into my first issue on making this website work. One of the first things I setup was an atom feed, which I’ve got from Alex Holmes’s blog source. The issue was that I missed a few links to change in the atom template and I’ve got it published and subscribed like this. Now my feed in Google Reader has a duplicate of my first post linking to a non existing page on Alex’s website. Google Reader also kept one of my tests on the feed. Oh well, what can I do? I looked it up and apparently there’s no way to clean Google Reader’s cache, which sucks a bit, but okay. Well, I hope it’s working now. It’s being hard to test the feed is alright with all this caching thing going on. Interestingly enough, another test I made before wasn’t cached.

I was also trying to figure out how jekyll works out the time of posts (not only the date), and turns out it doesn’t put time on posts at all. Because of that, my atom feed that’s based on the post.date ends up being timed at 00:00. The workaround for this is explicitly putting date with a timestamp — like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM — on the post’s YAML preamble. Unfortunately, it’s an extra manual step, but I’m sure I can produce some Elisp to make this more automatic.