Introduction to Atom

At this point, developers have named so many projects "Atom" that there are officially more Atoms in the world than there are atoms in the universe.

So many words to choose and they had to choose one that already has been used before. Why are techies so devoid of imagination?

It was an alternative to RSS from 20 years ago that didn't catch on.

I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.

IIRC, Aaron Swartz was one of the contributors to the format. RIP.

Well, that’s a blast from the past.

First iteration of Google's APIs were atom. I do miss XML.

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what is old is new again?