Detecting RSS

Setting up a bare-bones RSS feed for this blog ended up not being too tedious, and I'll probably write in more detail about that later. One thing I wanted to document before I forget about it, though, is how I got the RSS feed to be detected by Vivaldi (and, I hope, any other app that detects feeds).

As it turns out, you can use `<link>` tags to do this, like so:

The key here is setting the `rel` attribute to `alternative` , which has the following description on MDN :

Alternate representations of the current document.

Handy!

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Reddit comment was where I found this recommendation:

See if this works in the `<head></head>`

I'm not sure what it says about the state of search engines that Reddit is where I found this. It seems like using `<link>` tags in this way is standard. When I type in `link` into WebStorm a bunch of auto-completes (driven by Emmet , I think) pop up, including for RSS and Atom. And at the very least you'd think the MDN docs I linked above would appear prominently in the search result.