2026-05-20 New filtered RSS feeds on dsebastien.net

Canonical version: 2026-05-20 New filtered RSS feeds on dsebastien.net.

For a long time my site effectively had a single RSS feed: the one at /rss/. It worked, but it forced an all-or-nothing choice: subscribe to everything I publish, or nothing.

dsebastien.net now has a set of RSS feeds, so you can follow only the topics you care about. Subscribing requires no account and no email address.

Pick the feed you want

There's a new directory page that lists every feed: dsebastien.net/feeds. The highlights:

• Everything — /rss/ — every post I publish
• Articles — /blog/rss/ — long-form articles only
• Newsletter archive — /newsletter/rss/ — past newsletter editions
• News — /news/rss/ — short notes and quick updates
• Knowledge Management & Note-taking — /feeds/pkm/rss/ — PKM, note-taking, Obsidian, Zettelkasten and journaling, combined into one feed
• Artificial Intelligence — /feeds/ai/rss/ — using AI for knowledge work: LLMs, AI agents and AI-powered workflows
• Productivity & Personal Organization — /feeds/productivity/rss/
• Software Development — /feeds/dev/rss/ — just the dev content, without the knowledge-management material
• Best Of — /feeds/best/rss/ — a low-volume feed of my featured posts

On top of that, every tag has its own feed: append rss/ to any tag URL, for example /tag/obsidian/rss/.

Why I bothered

RSS lets you follow a site chronologically, completely, and on your own terms. But with a single feed, someone who follows me for Obsidian tips also gets my old front-end development posts, and vice versa. With topic feeds, each reader picks what they want to receive.

How it works

The topic feeds are Ghost channels: routes with a filter, defined in routes.yaml. Each channel is both a browsable page and an RSS feed, so I don't have to maintain a hand-written feed template. I wrote up the full process in my notes: Creating custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost.

References

• Feeds directory: https://www.dsebastien.net/feeds/
• The Autodidacts — Create Custom Filtered RSS Feeds With Ghost CMS Routes & Channels: https://www.autodidacts.io/create-custom-filtered-rss-feeds-with-ghost-cms-routes-channels/

Related

• Creating custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost
• Ghost
• Ghost Publish plugin for Obsidian
• My communications plan

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