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Andrew Stiefel
Personal blog · andrewstiefel.comcultureweb
Andrew Stiefel's personal blog at andrewstiefel.com covers culture and web. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How to Style an Atom Feed with XSLT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrew Stiefel's guide to styling an Atom feed with XSLT and his personal feed as a working example of an XML feed. One commenter calls the guide great.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andrew Stiefel writes a newsletter called Margin Notes. This digital garden is a collection of essays and short notes exploring digital culture, marketing, and building for the web.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Style an Atom Feed with XSLT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I disagree, you can have an XML feed that does both For example: https://andrewstiefel.com/feed.xml
Comment linking /feed.xml
on “I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too”Submitted How to Style an Atom Feed with XSLT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is why I've needed to use XLST, to style my personal RSS feed. Great guide for this: https://andrewstiefel.com/style-atom-xsl/ Looks like it's been raised on the whatwg issue too: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315...
Comment linking /style-atom-xsl/
on “Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT”