A worrying indicator of the decline of the open web

I’ve recently learned of several excellent and relatively new technical and research blogs that appear to be published with static site generators. On the surface, it is encouraging that talented communicators have not completely abandoned blogging as a (lowercase) medium in favor of the Mediums and Substacks of the contemporary internet.

The troubling detail I’ve noticed, however, is that very few of these sites are configured to also expose an RSS feed — so the primary way to find out about new posts is to follow the author on a social media site and watch for links.