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I was using PubWichFork, by Michael Haschke, which provided a way to generate the page sometimes (mainly at some times and/or when somebody visited it) and had a nice template and layout (later more on this). The last commit is fro 2019 and, as I said above, it had some error that I do not wanted to debug (I'm not very good at PHP programming).
My own socialModules. I've got a set of tools to consume content from some sites (RSS in this case, but also Twitter, the raising star Mastodon, ....) and then manage them in an homogeneous way. In this case it would be just downloading the content, selecting title and links, ...
For the presentation part I selected the cards template, by Sharath Kumar. The reason was that this template provides a grid-like aspect, which I think is the more adequate to present the content in my aggregator. You can see the example page in: Cards example. Some modifications were needed (and maybe some more will be done) because it is a porfolio oriented site and, in our case, we do not need pagination, for example.
The program that generates the posts is personalAggregator.py (it needs to install socialModules's dist branch with its requirements:
Finally, the personal aggregator's Jekyll site needs to be cloned and adapted.
Jekyll I've been preparing several sites during last months and I feel quite comfortable with them: look for a template, modify it, put your content and go on.