Please add an RSS Feed to Your Site

Title: Please add an RSS Feed to Your Site

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Published Time: 2026-05-27T12:57:06-04:00

Markdown Content: I’ll start with the main take here: please, for the love of God, add an RSS feed to your personal site.

If you are using Django to host your site, you can do it in minutes. Here is a simple and up-to-date tutorial on how to do it. Django makes it very easy.

Why does RSS matter more than ever in 2026? As a co-writer of the Django News Newsletter for over 7 years, I am constantly looking for high-quality posts from people in the Django and broader Python communities. And yet, these days, it is harder than ever to find new content or even keep up with the efforts of people we’ve featured in the past. Social media is–how to say this kindly–rough in terms of uncovering content. These days, it feels like I spend more time sniffing out AI-written content than just exploring. It is exhausting.

My favorite way to consume the internet is via RSS. It’s a way to keep up with what friends and people I respect are saying. There are still multiple good free or low-cost options out there. Personally, I use News Explorer based on Carlton Gibson’s recommendation.

I should note that it is fine and indeed often helpful to use AI/LLMs when you write, provided you are still doing the work! They are wonderful tools to copyedit a post, maybe even suggest ideas that are worth exploring, but if you just enter some short prompts and copy-paste the result as your own work, then no. Discerning readers can tell, but more importantly, you are depriving yourself of the main benefit of writing, which is that it focuses your own thoughts. Sheena O’Connell had a good recent post on using LLMs to share ideas that is worth reading if you want more context.

So how else do Jeff Triplett and I curate our newsletter? The official Django blog has good content, and there are active efforts to add even more. The Django Community RSS feed is a little buggy, but still unearths good articles. I always check there, too, in case I’ve missed something.

But to go back to my opening point, without name-shaming anyone, there are more than a few Django contributors whose content I might miss if I don’t see it on Mastodon, or maybe on LinkedIn, or maybe someone mentions it to me.