<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://jamesrxiao.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://jamesrxiao.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-11-14T23:52:07-05:00</updated><id>https://jamesrxiao.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">james xiao</title><subtitle>James Xiao&apos;s personal website and blog.</subtitle><author><name>Your Name</name></author><entry><title type="html">obligatory canonical website first meta blog</title><link href="https://jamesrxiao.github.io/blog/canonical_first_blog/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="obligatory canonical website first meta blog" /><published>2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://jamesrxiao.github.io/blog/canonical_first_blog</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://jamesrxiao.github.io/blog/canonical_first_blog/"><![CDATA[<p>welcome to my page!</p>

<p>it is a canon event that i make a first blog the day my website becomes active about the process of making the website. so that is what i am going to do.</p>

<p>i’ve been meaning to make a website for a while, but never found myself the time nor the motivation to. it wasn’t until early in my sophomore year that i realize having a place to document my work would be nice, and having a place to post blogs that anbody online could find and read would be fun.</p>

<p>i started by collecting around 50 personal websites of everybody i could find within 2 or 3 degrees of separation from me.</p>

<p>anyway, after getting enough inspo, i</p>

<p>structured my site based on <a href="https://intentionally-aimless.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nevin thinagar</a>’s site. it is hosted on github pages from a personal repo, uses jekyll for styling and themes, and uses cloudinary for hosting images and videos. i found the <a href="https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">minimal mistakes</a> jekyll theme that seemed to have just the right amount of structured features as well as flexibility for customizing.</p>]]></content><author><name>Your Name</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[welcome to my page!]]></summary></entry></feed>