added rss2 feed

3 files changed, 60 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/feed.typ b/feed.typ
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75639e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/feed.typ
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+// RSS 2.0 feed for the blog posts, emitted as feed.xml by main.typ.
+// Items are built from the metadata in site-info.pages (newest first).
+
+#import "/global/common.typ": baseurl
+
+#let xml-escape(s) = s.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;")
+
+// ISO date ("2026-07-28") to RFC 822 ("Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT").
+#let rfc822(iso) = {
+    let (y, m, d) = iso.split("-").map(int)
+    datetime(year: y, month: m, day: d).display(
+        "[weekday repr:short], [day] [month repr:short] [year] 00:00:00 GMT"
+    )
+}
+
+#let feed-xml(site-info) = {
+    let pages = site-info.pages
+    let ids = pages.keys().filter(k => k.starts-with("post/"))
+
+    let items = ()
+    for id in ids {
+        let p = pages.at(id)
+        let title = if "long-title" in p { p.long-title } else { p.title }
+        let url = baseurl + "/" + id + ".html"
+
+        let lines = (
+            "  <item>",
+            "    <title>" + xml-escape(title) + "</title>",
+            "    <link>" + url + "</link>",
+            "    <guid>" + url + "</guid>",
+        )
+        if "date" in p {
+            lines.push("    <pubDate>" + rfc822(p.date) + "</pubDate>")
+        }
+        if "description" in p {
+            lines.push("    <description>" + xml-escape(p.description) + "</description>")
+        }
+        lines.push("  </item>")
+        items.push(lines.join("\n"))
+    }
+
+    (
+        "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>",
+        "<rss version=\"2.0\">",
+        "<channel>",
+        "  <title>" + xml-escape(site-info.title) + "</title>",
+        "  <link>" + baseurl + "/</link>",
+        "  <description>Posts from " + xml-escape(site-info.title) + " (" + baseurl + ")</description>",
+        items.join("\n"),
+        "</channel>",
+        "</rss>",
+        "",
+    ).join("\n")
+}
diff --git a/global/common.typ b/global/common.typ
index f5f5c6d..d1a0aaa 100644
--- a/global/common.typ
+++ b/global/common.typ
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #let _asset-paths = state("asset-paths", ())
 
 #let srcurl = "https://git.kumardamani.net/kumardamani.net"
+#let baseurl = "https://kumardamani.net"
 
 // Deployment info, overwritten by CI per build:
 //   printf '{ "date": "%s", "link": "%s" }\n' \
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@
                 html.link(rel: "icon", href: base + "favicon.ico")
                 html.elem("link", attrs: (rel: "preload", href: base + "extlink.svg", "as": "image"))
                 html.link(rel: "stylesheet", href: base + "main.css")
+                html.link(rel: "alternate", type: "application/rss+xml", title: site + " RSS", href: base + "feed.xml")
 
                 for ss in stylesheets {
                     html.link(rel: "stylesheet", href: base + ss)
@@ -227,10 +229,9 @@
                 html.main(body)
                 html.hr()
                 html.footer({
-                    html.span(class: "updated")[Updated: #ci.date.]
+                    html.span(class: "updated")[\[Updated: #ci.date.\]]
                     html.span(class: "logs")[
-                        #extlink(srcurl)[site source] |
-                        #extlink(ci.link)[logs] for nerds!
+                        \[For nerds: #extlink(srcurl)[site source], #extlink(ci.link)[logs], #link(base + "feed.xml")[rss]\]
                     ]
                 })
             })
diff --git a/main.typ b/main.typ
index a7f470a..e74b903 100644
--- a/main.typ
+++ b/main.typ
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 #import "/global/common.typ": *
 #import "/site.typ": site-info
+#import "/feed.typ": feed-xml
 
 #import "/index.typ" as index-page
 #import "/software.typ" as software-page
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@
 #asset("extlink.svg", read("/global/extlink.svg", encoding: none))
 #asset("favicon.ico", read("/global/favicon.ico", encoding: none))
 #asset("favicon.svg", read("/global/favicon.svg", encoding: none))
+#asset("feed.xml", bytes(feed-xml(site-info)))
 
 // image assets collected from pages via the img/fig helpers
 #context {