Recently I discovered a couple blogs with interesting content and it reminded me of how the web used to be. So I ask what blogs do you follow and what topics do they cover?
I’ll not list all 97 in my RSS reader ;)
A bunch of C# blogs, not that interesting for non-C# people, I’ll also leave out the few German blogs, and all those keto recipe blogs.
Interesting standouts:
- Coding Horror, no post in the last year, general software dev topics.
- SmartHomeScene Smart home stuff
- Noted & Selfh.st for self-hosting topics
- Smashing Magazine for web development
- Angry Metal Guy a very well written metal review blog
- Mullvad A VPN I use, and their blog, obviously company stuff, but also general privacy topics.
Man, I should find a bunch of blogs etc, get an rss reader and read those instead of doom scrolling memes and garbage.
!weblogs@lemm.ee might help with finding interesting blogs
Thanks! I’ll take a look.
Awesome, just followed Mullvad and Selfh.st. Some you might be interested in (maybe you already read them!) :
- cloudflare
- netflix techblog -BBC R&D
Thanks, but I prefer tech stuff that’s actually applicable to me ;)
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I was already aware of noted, but I’ll look into the others. Out of curiosity what RSS reader(s) do you use? I haven’t yet decided on using one.
FreshRSS, before that it was TT-RSS, but when I had some issues, I decided to switch to one that doesn’t have a toxic creator :D
Cool, since its got a docker image I’ll probably set it up for myself soon.
Recent noted post: https://noted.lol/commafeed/
You could try both and tell me which you prefer 🤣 I’m too lazy.
https://hackaday.com/ is the only blog that has stood the test of time for me, been reading it for 15 years.
A couple more:
- BBC R&D. They don’t post very often, but what they do post is often extremely cool and high quality. E.g. Deploying the world’s first large scale temporary private 5g network for broadcasting UHD video of the King Charles’ coronation
- Project Perfect Mod - old school command and Conquer blog, Banshee that runs it is still posting on the daily, I don’t know how he does it.
- Cloudflare - interesting tech and case studies
- Google Cloud - same as above
- The Conversation - super interesting crowd-sourced blog written by scientists and researchers in all sorts of topics, generally very well written
Diary of an Autodidact — A California lawyer with a love for the great outdoors reviews both books and national parks… but mostly wrote a very insightful and incisive series of longform essays on the interactions between Evangelical Christianity and US politics. He’s gotten a bit bitter and grumpy recently, but remains worth reading, albeit with teaspoon of salt.
Sounds interesting, I’ll look into it.
One blog that inspired this post for me was https://www.ribbonfarm.com/. It is hard to pin down a single topic it covers, but I would say it tries to make sense of the ways people and ideas interact by breaking them down into different categories to understand how they think and view the world. Some topics include the social mechanics of the workplace and home, how people conceptually deal with the unknown, and conflict resolution.
Yea Rao is definitely someone I miss from Twitter, though last I checked they got off the platform to an extent too with this blog being their main home.
Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.
I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.
That URL is just amazing.
I have no recommendations at the moment but I’d like to know some tips on how to start a blog and promote them in this current day and age, especially if it’s about a niche subject.
If its about a niche subject, find the community for that subject and let the people know about your blog directly and if they are happy, keep posting there when you have a new entry
https://pluralistic.net/ by Cory Doctorow, his insights on technology (especially what is going wrong with it) are eye-opening
Bandcamp daily
HiphopgoldenageHave been reading boingboing.net since before Reddit became the king of aggregated content platforms. Still do. But the quality of content are not what it once was. And the addition of their own gadget store has not made the experience better. Though there are still some good stuff to be found.
It has roots in what was a printed fanzine. Content is mostly tech, culture and politics.
Among the editors are maker Mark Faruenfelder. And privacy activist Cory Doctorow was once a big contributor, but I have not seen anything by him in a while.
https://mcmansionhell.com/ That counts, I hope.
