Incorrect link to RSS feed in blog

[justyn]

The RSS feed for the blog is available at https://activitywatch.net/feed.xml but the relevant embedded link element (eg at https://activitywatch.net/blog/) shows this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ActivityWatch - Open-source time tracker" href="https://activitywatch.net/"/>

Note that "/feed.xml" is missing off the end of the href.

A glance through the source seems to suggest that this line should handle it:

activitywatch.github.io/_includes/head.pug

Line 12 in b5cce71

link(rel='alternate', type='application/rss+xml', title='{{ site.title }}', href='{{ "/feed.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}')

Yet this already contains "/feed.xml" so it's not clear to me why the rendered line is different, unless it's coming from a separate place. Perhaps a theme? I'm not familiar with Jekyll.

[ErikBjare]

That is indeed strange! I have no idea what is going on here.

[TimeToBuildBob]

Found and fixed the root cause in #43.

The bug: The Pug template used single-quoted Pug attributes with double-quoted Liquid strings:

href='{{ "/feed.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}'

When Pug renders to HTML, it converts attributes to double-quote syntax, so the output becomes:

href="{{ "/feed.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}"

The nested double quotes break the HTML attribute — the browser sees href="{{ " as the complete attribute value, and /feed.xml gets dropped.

The fix: Switch to double-quoted Pug attributes with single-quoted Liquid strings (matching the pattern already used by the CSS link on the line above):

href="{{ '/feed.xml' | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}"

Also fixed the same bug on the canonical link.