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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #118
vishnu_ks wrote: post #6

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codingh…

I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at http://rubyland.news -- doesn't have the interactive/personalization features of yours, you have gone quite a bit furhter! But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml

Hey, rubyland was one of the inspirations for diff.blog. Thanks for building it :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685

> But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own).

Yes. You can suggest new blogs at https://diff.blog/suggest. The recommended way to add your own blog is by going to profile settings since that allow you to change the URL as well as refresh the feed. But both are fine :)

> Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml

Yeah. I will give it a go one of these days. Hard part is I need to get the GitHub handle of each of these blogs since all the blog in diff.blog should have an associated GitHub account.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by cuspycode »

317070 wrote: post #5

Matt Levine on Bloomberg for everything finance: While I am only medium interested in finance, Matt Levine makes it all sound farcical. It is usually a fun read, and I learn something about how the world runs (or usually in which creative ways people abused the way the world runs) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe... Derek Lowe on medicine. He is an absolute expert on the topic, but doesn't…

Scott Aaronson is IMHO worth reading even when he writes about non-technical topics. And he tags his posts with categories such as "Quantum", "Complexity", "Rage Againts Doofosity", etc, so it's easy to skip topics that you aren't interested in.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

polote wrote: post #106
vishnu_ks wrote: post #6

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codingh…

You may check https://hnblogs.substack.com/ if you want to add new blogs. These are usually 'less professional' blogs than the ones you just quoted though

Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting :)

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

sneak wrote: post #108
vishnu_ks wrote: post #6

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codingh…

Tried out diff.blog but it doesn't render anything but the header with javascript off.

Yeah. Sorry. I haven't done any work to make load it without JS :(

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by kzrdude »

MereInterest wrote: post #18

Bret Devereaux's https://acoup.blog/ is a fantastic weekly read. I was drawn in by some of the comparisons between Lord of the Rings and historical battle practices [0][1]. Right now, he's in the middle of a series on how Paradox Interactive games portray history, what things are accurate/inaccurate, and how to best connect with students whose interest in history was sparked by Paradox games [2]. [0] https://acoup.bl…

Thanks for linking the paradox post, very interesting!

Unfortunately, this writer is seriously overusing parentheses and this disrupts the reading flow.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

abdusco wrote: post #104
vishnu_ks wrote: post #6

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codingh…

https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.

Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per year for the first 2 years :)

.tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got a pretty good deal for ma.tt

https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/

Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)

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