At this point, developers have named so many projects &quot;Atom&quot; that there are officially more Atoms in the world than there are atoms in the universe.

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TIL FeedBurner still exists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedburner.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedburner.google.com&#x2F;</a>

It was an alternative to RSS from 20 years ago that didn&#x27;t catch on.

I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.

IIRC, Aaron Swartz was one of the contributors to the format. RIP.

First iteration of Google&#x27;s APIs were atom. I do miss XML.

I’m not clear on the difference between atom and RSS. Atom seemed to be the better spec, but for my Astro blog I ended up sticking to the built in `rss` helper it ships with.

So many words to choose and they had to choose one that already has been used before. Why are techies so devoid of imagination?

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Introduction to Atom

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