★ When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them

In this blog post, John Gruber discusses a recent technical issue with his website, Daring Fireball. The RSS feed generation script failed, preventing new articles from appearing on the site's home page and in feeds. As a result, his recent posts went largely unnoticed by readers, and he received no feedback. He notes that the Mastodon auto-posting bot also stopped working because it relies on the RSS feed. Gruber reflects on the incident, mentioning a similar occurrence last October, and considers adding an alert system to prevent future issues. The post is a personal account of a tech-related problem and its impact on his blog's readership.