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layout: post
date: 2026-04-21 01:08
title: How I use RSS to quickly post on my Jekyll blog 
link: https://lisacharlottemuth.com/rss-jekyll-blog
cited: Lisa Charlotte Muth
class: indie

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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...