Finally got RSS generation working in 79d0260,
then c736893
added a pubDate tag to propertly update/sort articles.
I got here after trying to shove yaml and metadata into pandoc and get it to generate the RSS xml. When I tried building a yaml file with the full text in the description, it definitely didn’t work.
After trying to make the metadata file as json instead of yaml, then getting parser errors as I tried to put strings in the json file, I finally realized “This is XML. Why don’t I just build it by hand?”
And that’s where I got to. (Almost) Entirely shell constructing a clean RSS feed. (Pandoc was necessary to translate the markdown to html.)