One of the big end-of-April releases in 2025 was creating RSS and JSON feeds for my website—ended up being central to the first post of my newsletter, Craft & Practice.
Since then, the content's grown a lot, and I'm wanting to write a bit more intentionally where I do. I needed to come up with a better area to host things than putting loads of links way down in the footer.
Hence, a new release!
RSS Feeds
You can use a feed reader, or RSS reader, and subscribe to the following content:
- a feed of my journal;
- a feed of my articles;
- a feed of my essays;
- a feed of my links;
- a feed of my library;
If you'd like to focus on a specific grouping of content, I also have:
- a feed of my garden, includes all posts in
/journal,/articles/,/essays, and eventually/books; - a feed of my soil, includes all posts in
/links, and/library, and at some point more. - a feed of my stream, including all the things published on my site.
If you'd like to subscribe to content with specific tags, you can also construct your own feed like the following:
- for anything tagged tool, jonathanstephens.us/tags/tool/rss
- for anything tagged design, jonathanstephens.us/tags/design/rss.
JSON Feeds
I have JSON feeds available, for everything listed above:
- a feed of my journal;
- a feed of my articles;
- a feed of my essays;
- a feed of my links;
- a feed of my library;
- a feed of my garden;
- a feed of my soil;
- a feed of my stream.
How to use
There are two primary types of feeds around these days:
- RSS (really simple syndication), and
- JSON (javascript object notation).
You can access either type with the following URL changes:
/$page/rsswill get you to an RSS feed/$page/feedwill get you to a JSON feed.
To learn more about web feeds, check out the site About Feeds that talks & explains all about feeds.