So yeah, I know my last post was just a link, but I promise the post after this will be actual new content, not just me sharing stuff. Then again, it's my blog, so who knows what I'll do. ;) Happy July, and for those of you suffering with me in the South (heat and multiple other reasons), stay hydrated.

RSS Styling

First up is a cool article by Darek Kay, Style your RSS feed. While on one-hand I'm so happy I don't need to work with XML often, on the other hand, I've already been impressed by the XML ecosystem, especially XSLT and XPath. Turns out, you can add a style sheet written in XSL and make your RSS feed prettier. This is really cool, and I've done it to my feed as well.

The 11ty Bundle

Next up is the 11ty Bundle by Bob Monsour, a huge collection of Eleventy resources from around the web. He even has a firehose RSS feed you can subscribe to in your feed reader of choice.

JSON to Chart

Last is a resource my buddy Todd Sharp shared with me. JSON to Chart is a super useful little tool that lets you paste in some JSON data and generate a chart. I'm not talking about a charting library, this is literally, "I've got some data, and I'd love to make a quick chart of it to share with others" type thing.

This is a trivial example, but take some JSON like so:

[
{"name":"Zelda", "age":1, "gender":"female"},
{"name":"Pig", "age":8, "gender":"female"},
{"name":"Luna", "age":12, "gender":"female"},
{"name":"Elise", "age":11, "gender":"female"},
{"name":"Grace", "age":13, "gender":"female"}
]

Paste it into the site and specify name for x-axis and age for y-axis, and you get this: