English: a vs anWhy vowel letters are the wrong rule for indefinite articles in generated text

Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) digs into when English wants “a” versus “an”: the rule tracks spoken vowel sounds, not written vowel letters, and only a small set of common words need exceptions for procedural text generation.

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RSS Feed Best Practices

Kevin Cox's technical checklist for publishing a blog feed: pick RSS 2 or Atom, serve the right content type, use absolute URLs, discovery tags, HTTPS, full content, stable entry IDs, caching and conditional requests, and sensible pagination.

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