How I use RSS to quickly post on my Jekyll blog

Interesting concept in using tumblr as the UI for Jekyll. I use Drafts app and then go into Working Copy on my iOS devices. But do use the Python script in GitHub actions extensively.

RSS is amazing. I’ve been a RSS reader fan since Google Reader (RIP). It’s my favorite way to stay up to date on what other people post. Almost every blog comes with an RSS feed – even my old Tumblr blog. “Would it be possible,” I asked ChatGPT one evening last December, “to check this Tumblr blog RSS feed periodically, and if there’s new content, transform it into a Jekyll Markdown file and put it on my blog?” Yes, it said, and now I have the following setup…

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And that’s it! Every post that lands in the _posts or _notes folder in GitHub gets published automatically. Within a minute or two after the Python script doing its thing, the post is live on notes…

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