The RSS Update

I'm not sure how noticeable it is to users, but I redid the Posts page to instead load up dynamically from my brand new RSS feed. And I am once again reminded that I dislike Date, Time, and DateTime objects. They are miserable, but especially when they have hidden leading whitespace causing improper parsing. But that beats having to make a parser from scratch to handle a very specific date format, which I thought I was going to need.

I made the update about the Slow Update, and was thinking "Oh, an RSS feed would be nice to have! I don't use RSS or anything, but it would be helpful for people who do use it."

Some time later, it's now the next day, and I cannot count how many various javascript library documents I looked through to realize my issue was not at all covered by them. It took splitting the string of the date object to see it wasn't correct, and thankfully the Date constructor knows what RFC 2822 formatted time is.

Also, I found out after all of that, and while adding in a few more friends' banners, that there's some sort of RSS function in the neocities editor. It's under the Share button, and I think maybe requires a page that has your list of RSS items statically written. And since I overhauled my site to be in part dynamically generated by my own RSS, I don't think I can use it?

Maybe this'll be a cautionary tale for someone else, that there's some sort of built-in feed thing already, and you don't have to re-invent javascript datetime methods.