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CSS your RSS with XSL, LOL

Written on 1/11/2024 and tagged: tip, web development

Have you ever tapped an RSS/ATOM feed link?

Most often, you see something that looks like this:

Screenshot of an RSS feed, which a lot of weird looking code
NPR’s unstyled news feed as of January 11th, 2024

Did you know you can transform that with HTML and CSS to make it much nicer on the eyes? Me neither! Well, now I know, thanks to a blog post by Darek Kay.

Not one to miss out on anything fun, I made my own feed look a bit more fancy.