Every time I set up a new blog I ask myself once whether RSS is still worth it. The conclusion is always the same: it is. Two reasons carry the decision.
Readers keep the initiative
A social timeline follows the platform’s ranking; a feed reader is the subscriber walking over to fetch updates themselves. The decision to read or skip stays in the reader’s hands. Technical blogs still have a steady population of feed-reader users — in the analytics, part of the referrer-less direct traffic was clearly arriving via the feed.
Generation is effectively free
With a static site generator, assembling a feed from the list of posts is a dozen lines of code. It runs once at build time, and serving it is the same as serving any other static file. There is nothing that deserves to be called a maintenance cost.
Full text or summary?
The only real question was whether to inline full articles. Full text is kind to readers who finish everything inside the reader, but some clients mangle code blocks. For now the feed carries summary plus link, to be revisited if anyone reports breakage.