Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great.
I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?
I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content.
Perhaps it exists, I want an app/site that will scrape a list of sites I give it (blogs for example) to show me any new content each day. A personal home page with titles and perhaps a hundred or so words from each site I track that has new content.
In the broader picture, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of technology these days, spend too much of my time browsing, etc. (HN, case in point). So I am looking for something I call TRAoT, The Right Amount of Technology.
Maybe it's a "magic mirror" that displays this overview, home page. Interactivity is minimal or nil. No ability to comment, follow links, etc. Like the morning newspaper of old, I spend a little time in the morning with it and then go about my day "offline".
In short I am looking at ways to take the open-ended and stress inducing (anxiety inducing?) relationships I have with technology and replace them with a more staid, maybe even serendipitous, relationship that allows me back more free time, less stress.
Maybe this "Solar Punk" thing is something of the Zeitgeist of our time.
I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.
I got the same problem, that I want to collect all the blog posts of friends in my circle, so I built a curated blog engine for my developer communiy [1], it works by collecting blog posts from RSS feeds of the members and display them in one place like a normal blog [2]. You can use this as your personal RSS reader too!
[1] https://github.com/webuild-community/federated-blog [2] https://read.webuild.community
I'm also maintaining a curated list of blogs at https://collection.mataroa.blog/
One can also limit the list with the ?key= queryparam, like so: https://collection.mataroa.blog/?key=philosophy
My favorite blog type is along the lines of "old man yells at clouds". Preferably with said cloud often being "The Cloud". Is there a category for that, or perhaps a Curmudgeons Web Ring?
I just wanted to say that today I hit the 2 month mark for consecutive days of writing. I published 60 posts, one every day. I wrote about startups, engineering, and other thoughts.
I've found that doing something daily is the best way for me to build habits. It's been a fantastic experience. My writing became more concise. It's given me clarity.
And great idea for the site- I submitted a pull request for my blog [0].
Is there a good way to search (e.g. like a Google search) only personal blogs and homepages? I was looking into this the other day, but couldn't figure out a solution.
See also, search engine for finding personal/non-corporate websites: https://wiby.me.
I love this. I'm in the ultrarunning community and I LOVE reading everyone's blog posts/trip reports/race reports/adventures. But everyone stopped updating them over the past 5 years or so. Now that sort of thing is just an Instagram photo with a paragraph or two. The depth and character of those old blog posts have been lost. I wish in depth blog posts would come back, but in reality, I don't think they are.
Side note: My other favorite types of websites are very specific human-curated lists... which also seem to have died out.
I support the effort, but I have seen these things generally devolve, fairly rapidly, once people figure out how to game the system.
For myself, I've done a ton of writing[0], but my work seems to be too long-form for most. I don't really go out of my way to promote it. I basically have them up, so I can reference them in the odd comment.
Not the end of the world. I generally write for my own benefit; not for others.
I really wish that it was easier for non-technically minded people to submit blogs to this list.
It would really help if the owner of this site made a web form that didn't require you to have a Github account to submit things (or even understand how to hand-type the weird json format that they want)
I estimate that extra amount of user abrasion is preventing something like 99% of people from submitting their blogs.
Relatedly, I link to a lot of personal blogs in my newsletter Interesting Things. They tend to be good quality blogs (otherwise I wouldn't linking to them) so you'd probably find some good stuff there.
Newsletter: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things
Sample issue: https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample
If you feel overwhelmed by all the blog posts out there, there are newsletters that will send you one or several articles a day and let you ingest them slowly. I particularly like Thinking About Things and Findka Essays.
[0] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/ [1] https://essays.findka.com/
What is the general etiquette here at hn for submitting a personal blog post?
Assuming the content is relatively novel or fresh and possibly niche (tech related) for example.
I hate spam, so I hesitate to submit anything here. Perhaps it’s the fear of critique that induces hesitation (for me personally).
Is there a general rule of thumb or guideline?
Looking through the list sorted by HN points I've come across quite a few that have not been updated in anything from two to five years.
Perhaps it'd be a good idea to add a "last post on" or some other indicator of activity.
Nice effort. However the HN-based ranking system make this lean heavily towards 'software' tagged blogs.
Having a filter for specific tags (e.g. 'add/remove this tag') would help the blog discovery process.
I was thinking of a solution for discoverability for distributed blogs. Maybe a webring/tag/label footer that you can simply include that will dynamically show related blog posts from others.
Blogs are great and I encourage everyone to start one. Mine has never been popular but I enjoy occasionally writing a quick article on something I found difficult or even just venting into the void.
If you prefer something daily, you could check https://hnblogs.substack.com/
This is great. I’ve found some to follow with my RSS reader, https://sumi.news
My favs are here https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere
By any chance, could we add a "language" tag, so that blogs that are not in English can be added?
Does anyone have a recommendation for blogging platform with Latex + code highlighting support?
It would be good to have an OPML file available as you're building this list as well.
It would be handy to be able to exclude tags from the search results.
Let's also bring back webring ...
For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan.
First, there's Micro.blog (https://micro.blog/). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery.
Second, there's the IndieWeb movement more broadly (https://indieweb.org/), which advocates for a whole ecosystem of distributed, open technologies for enriching the blogging ecosystem and encouraging interoperability.
Third, believe it or not, webrings live on! The indiewebring (https://indieweb.org/indiewebring), for example, is a fun way to find additional bloggers out there.
As you can tell, I'm a fan of blogging and the IndieWeb movement... :)