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Guides and notes on RSS-to-newsletter.
Guide July 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Style your feed emails: writing a custom HTML template in emit

Every feed email is built from a template. The default shell is deliberately plain; when you want your own look, a feed can carry its own HTML. The five variables it gets, the sandbox rules, and a full changelog-styled template you can copy — plus the two things that make code-heavy emails render badly.

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Case study July 16, 2026 · 6 min read

A breaking-changes feed for your stack: five changelogs, one daily digest

One filtered feed over the GitHub releases for FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Stripe, pandas, and scikit-learn, asking only for the things that break code on upgrade. What it took to make it emit real signal and nothing else — including the two tuning calls I got wrong first.

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Guide July 11, 2026 · 5 min read

Zero to a working feed pipeline with Claude Code (or any agent)

emit is agent-operable end to end: hosted MCP server, OpenAPI spec, machine-readable docs. The setup guide is one pasted prompt — account, topic smart feed, its filtered RSS feed, daily email digest — plus the four curl calls underneath so you can trust it.

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Guide July 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Any page → RSS → Slack: watch a site that has no feed

A competitor's changelog, a public-notices board, a jobs page — no RSS required. Two API calls (or one agent prompt) turn the page into a real feed and push every new entry into Slack or Discord, with a silent baseline so nobody gets back-catalog spam.

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Guide July 11, 2026 · 4 min read

30 RSS feeds in. One feed you'll actually finish.

Hand emit your subscriptions and a plain-English description of what you care about; read back one merged, de-duplicated, LLM-filtered feed — every filtered-out item auditable, every threshold tunable with one tap. About $1.30 a month.

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Announcement July 9, 2026 · 4 min read

emit is now a programmable RSS feeds platform

Anything in, anything out, you control the middle: smart feeds turn a plain-language prompt into a live filtered feed, pages without feeds get one anyway, and any feed can exit to email, Slack, Discord, or a signed webhook. Every seam is real RSS.

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Guide May 29, 2026 · 12 min read

Send your Hugo blog as a newsletter with Emit — from absolute scratch

A complete walkthrough: create an Emit account, verify your sending domain, fund it with prepaid credits, point Emit at your Hugo RSS feed, and drop a subscribe form on your site. By the end, every new post you publish emails your readers automatically.

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