Good bones and road grit.

Feeds

Syndication, subscribing, and other ways to read without refreshing a platform dashboard.

  • The feed is the campfire

    The feed is the campfire

    A feed is a campfire with no platform bouncer. You pull up, read what is new, and leave when you are done. Nobody needs to know how long you stared at the sparks.

    What Dirtbag exposes

    The old reader-button habit still works: copy a feed URL, put it where you read, and come back when you feel like it.

  • Idling near the gravel pit

    Idling near the gravel pit

    Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.

    The truck is idling in the drive, the coffee is gas-station warm, and your site is finally doing its basic tasks without dressing them up as a product launch.

    Dirtbag is here for plain posts, visible links, comments, feeds, OPML, XFN, microformats, web-safe colours, and just enough CSS to keep the text from hugging the ditch.

    • RSS is visible.
    • Comments are open.
    • The blogroll has an OPML file.
    • The only JavaScript is WordPress core’s own — the theme’s stays in the glovebox.

    Somewhere under the hood, there is a rockabilly backbeat: slap bass, cheap chrome, and a rhythm section made of loose bolts.

    Outside, the sound of car tires coming down your gravel road…

    If a page can be a page, let it be a page.

    And get on with the writing!