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Michaela Sue

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Biochemist, mass spectrometry witch, caretaker for the nanoflow liquid chromatographs. Trans woman, lesbian. Recumbent cyclist. Wisconsin, USA

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nex3
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Use h-entry to make your blogs rebloggable

I really love the reblog culture on here, and I'm dead set on bringing it with me to my own homepage. To that end, I've been making tools that consume the h-entry microformat, which annotates blog posts with a few standard classes to make them easy for people to parse and work with.

I wrote a whole post on it on my blog. Give it a look, and then go add a few classnames to your blog! It's fast, it's easy, and it's fun!

(If you're using Bear Blog, I've already filed an issue requesting built-in support for this. If you've got a GitHub account and you'd get value out of that, please give it a +1!)

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only a matter of time before someone writes some sort of h-entry related software and names it Preparation H, followed by getting a letter from Pfizer's lawyers

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arjache
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I remember considering this microformat when I was first making my site, and deciding against it, but I don’t remember if it was because it was too SEO-y (a complaint I have about a lot of HTML annotation these days) or because I didn’t want to encourage scraping or if I just didn’t like the class spam. I guess I’ll have to reconsider it if you’ve found an actual use for it, though.

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nex3
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it definitely does make scraping easier, which is arguably the point, although I think these days the most hostile scrapers are all just interested in prose-as-slop more than carefully-annotated semantics. but I do encourage you to give it another look! I'll probably reblog you more if I don't have to manually transcribe stuff!

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catball
@catball

Do you know of / would recommend any existing tools/libraries for generating RSS feeds with h-entry support?

(i'm belatedly starting to figure out how I wanna set up my blog and am trying to avoid writing too much of my own bespoke junk)

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nex3
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RSS feeds don't really need h-entries themselves—they're already well-structured in essentially the same way. The crucial thing is that h-entry embeds that information in the web page itself, rather than having it in a separate document that only contains information about the most recent posts.

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