Introduction to Atom
susam
68 points
19 comments
May 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
perrohunter
what is old is new again?
mplanchard
I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.
intrasight
First iteration of Google's APIs were atom. I do miss XML.
tkcranny
I’m not clear on the difference between atom and RSS. Atom seemed to be the better spec, but for my Astro blog I ended up sticking to the built in `rss` helper it ships with.
drob518
Well, that’s a blast from the past.
rippeltippel
At this point, developers have named so many projects "Atom" that there are officially more Atoms in the world than there are atoms in the universe.
echelon
IIRC, Aaron Swartz was one of the contributors to the format. RIP.