My blog engine is a horrible mess of duct tape and prayers. This is because I looked at the popular blog engines a few years back, and decided I’d rather use my own mess instead of someone else’s.[1] When I wrote the RSS feed generator,[2] I wrote it so that the updated field for each entry would be populated with the timestamp of the last git commit to touch the corresponding article (or any of its assets, images, etc). At the time, this made sense to me as a way to avoid having to manua...
