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MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment
TL;DR: how I fixed my RSS feed by installing mailcap so I don't get tormented by mimes
- Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6 mark ii, Helios 44-2 58mm at f/8This morning, I woke up with a flurry of emails in my inbox. When I remade my website for version 4 I did make some weird technical decisions and I figured one of those was coming back to bite me. The actual reason why this was happening trolled me so hard that I felt the need to write about it so that y'all are able to understand all of the moving parts and why it failed in this way in particular.
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