Roel NieskensDoes anybody still have a personal "blank page" when they open a new browser tab?
With shortcuts to your favorite links, little widgets with live data you're interested in?
That was a thing on the old web. I'm going to start one for myself again.
Sara Joy 
@pixelambacht that's one reason I built https://rs.sjoy.lol :)
@sarajw Oh this is super cool! Thanks for sharing!
@pixelambacht you're very welcome!
@sarajw (Oh ps. the links to Bruce Lawson's blog don't work, I think the URI is used instead if the full URL?)
@pixelambacht aha! Thanks for that, I'll take a look later :)
I don't like to just pass the buck, but @brucelawson maybe you have time to take a look - in your feed, the full URL per post isn't included with it - only the relative path from your domain.
If this is correct under RSS/Atom, then fine, and I'll have to add a bunch more code to my parser! If not - this is a heads-up :)
Edit: Seems it's totally valid to have relative links here - even if it's recommended to have the absolute URLs. So it's not wrong.
Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊@sarajw Hmm. I *think* relative URLs are ligit in RSS, but not sure. (TBH I just use WordPress default RSS, but I do use relative links all the time for perf reasons. If I can work out how to tweak it, I will.) @pixelambacht
FND@brucelawson out of curiosity: by performance reasons, do you mean reducing HTML size or something more arcane? @sarajw @pixelambacht
@FND Years ago, I read that if -for example - you reference your own CSS file (onn your own domain) with an absolute URL, i does a DNS lookup even though the file is on your server. So I forced WP to use relative URLs (with a plugin). So presumably a side-effect is that its built-in RSS feeds now use relative URLs.
@brucelawson oh, interesting; TIL! I wonder if contemporary browsers still do that - might do some investigating next week... thanks for the explanation @sarajw @pixelambacht
@brucelawson I'm an inept noob when it comes to such things, but watching tcpdump it _looks like_ (to me, illiterate) both Firefox and Chrome only ever do a single lookup - even after a full page reload
having said that, I love me some relative URLs - though my commit log reveals I added `xml:base` in prepitaph.org's Atom feed "to ensure path-only URIs (i.e. local links, images etc.) are resolved properly"; so there must have been an issue at least with some feed readers
@brucelawson I've made it work now with relative paths, so we're good.
I've probably broken something else in the process!