Since we're self-promoting, feel free to check out my blog too :) https://popcar.bearblog.dev/
[2]: https://kagi.com/smallweb
[3]: https://wiby.me/
I think filtering by HN front page, and then filtering out the items you want in an RSS feed is a good combination that makes it easier to filter out the noise.
They are not the only "correct" way to read about topics you enjoy, though. (Whatever "correct" even means when it comes to personal enjoyment.)
HN users are interested in very diverse topics.
Someone put together an OPML feed of all of them, but I can't seem to find it.
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Found the OPML [2]
[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
[2.] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
How to build a tree-sitter grammar: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/03/19/lets_create_a_tr...
How I built a custom keyboard with a trackball: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/11/26/building_my_ulti...
How I designed a custom keyboard layout: https://www.jonashietala.se/series/t-34/
A long series on how I built my first 3D printer: https://www.jonashietala.se/series/voron_trident/
I've been blogging with varying levels of quality for 15 years about random things.
https://RSS.surf (I built this) gathers up the RSS feeds for anything that makes it to the front page of HN. It gathers up interesting blogs, lets me quickly assess if they are useful and interesting, and then easily subscribe. It's been a good transition from browsing HN to getting more intentional.
If you sign up using the login button in the top right, rss.surf will email you a summary of the RSS feeds for the prior day (you can see examples of prior summaries by clicking "see past emails").
FreshRSS is integrated (https://reader.rss.surf) so you can click to subscribe, or just use your own feed reader.
[1] www.masteringemacs.org
Oldschool bloglist: https://webring.xxiivv.com/
1. Mozilla Firefox Start Page - Shows blogs and articles from Pocket
2. Google Chrome Discover [Mobile] - Tuned to my interest and search result
3. HackerNews - Of-course not to be missed
4. daily.dev - using it for 450+ days, its fresh and aggregates various format contents
5. RSS Reader - I have subscribed to few RSS feeds based on my exploration and areas of interest
6. News Letters - Find some interesting newsletters from individuals and companies that align with you
Though these are not direct recommendation of blogs to read but a diverse medium to help you pull in more distributed and fresh content to keep you up to date
May The Force Be With You :)
Strange signup form they have. Never been asked for "Original Language" before, not sure what it means. Shouldn't it be just "Language"? Why does the first language you spoke matter?
The form validation is also broken, saying there is a incorrect character in the username when the actual error is that it's too short. The error messages aren't clearly errors (looks like normal text) and finally if you have a form validation error and already passed the Cloudflare captcha, you can never pass the form and need to reload to be able to submit again.
I get that forms are hard, I've struggled with them myself a lot as well. But a little more care could have gone into it, or at least reacting to seeing people struggling at that page, if it now been running for more than a year. It gives kind of a poor impression when it's a community specifically for engineers/developers, that they don't really have any attention to details.
For art and design I subscribe to newsletters from Dezeen, Hyperallergic, and Artnet, among others, like local museums. Dezeen articles I usually like to read; the other two I don't read the articles of as often but when they do have things I'm interested in, I'm really interested in them. Smithsonian News is also good, not just for art but history as well. I regularly read that.
I should probably look into similar things from foreign museums or museums out of state.
Strangely enough, I also really like Google's Art and Culture app? I probably don't use it as much as I should, or as much as I like it. I kind of forget about it unfortunately. Sometimes it can be kind of superficial but it has a lot of content and alerts me to things I wouldn't otherwise see, and the articles can be just the right balance of length and depth.
I've found that newsletters are helpful just in terms of being reminded of blogs. I probably get too much email but it also pushes me to unsubscribe from things I don't like. Most of the noise is from retail business too and not blogs or nonprofits.
For books I should probably keep track of better but I like NY RoB, Los Angeles RoB, Paris Book Review off the top of my head. Guardian Books is a newspaper but one I track.
I also have found it really useful to pay attention to publishers and presses you like and subscribe to updates from them. They're not blogs per se but you can often get newsletters with new publications. In addition to The New York Review of Books, for instance, there's also the New York Review Books, which sends out newsletters about books they're releasing that I often find interesting.
https://www.damninteresting.com/curated-links/
We mainly share articles on science, history, psychology, philosophy, true crime, interactives, and other such stuff. We avoid politics as much as feasible. I just checked, and we're coming up on 42,000 links in the catalog so far. Yowza.
I also listed the blogs and newsletters I visit often (OPML available): https://www.jjude.com/consume-list/
https://www.twoscomplement.org/#podcast
The latter includes full text transcripts so I think it fits your spec
marginalia's blog for interesting tech problems building a search engine "specifically" for indie/small/old-web sites. (the search engine itself is a gold mine for exactly what you're looking for). https://www.marginalia.nu/log/
feuilleton for thoughtful posts on recent niche art history - http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/feed/
the spatial heritage review for advances in 3D models from an educational context https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/
If you enjoy short form horror stories, and want to read someone's interpretation of the themes and background of some horror with substantial literary merit, it might be worth a shot! It actually encouraged me to start my own blog, doing something similar—though I'm still in the early stages of writing it.
Prof. Devereaux's day job is as an (untenured) ancient & military historian. With a taste for history- and fantasy-based TV/movies and games. A passable fraction of his older stuff is "how close is this to historical reality?" reviews.
Just wanted to thank everyone for your responses, I tried replying to everyone but damn you all are such a generous bunch!
I am just thinking - why can't we solve this issue? Article discovery? Anyone have anything they are working on?
Very few ppl can blog consistently enough to warrant an RSS feed -- you need an aggregator of some kind.
lynx works well with gopher and amfora for gemini. Plus on cell phones deedum also for gemini.
some links:
gopher://sdf.org/1/
gemini://sdf.org
gemini://gem.sdf.org
> After a lot of thinking, I’ve realized there is one main reason I don’t keep coming back to Gemini: it offers no advantage over how I already use the Web.
I still find Gemini great for reading long-form content though, I appreciate Gemtext is the important factor in this and if web browsers would render it over HTTPS then great, but I'm not aware of any that do.
I also like to use Gemini on vintage hardware that really struggle on the modern web, some of that hardware isn't even that old anymore, low-end devices from just 10 years ago with 2-4GB RAM will have a hard time nowadays.
bearblog.dev has a great discover page IMO, it consist of people w their own blog, it could be anything tbh.
https://www.construction-physics.com
https://polymerist.substack.com
(work very much in progress)
How does one find new, interesting authors these days (not just people with lots of activity on their short form notes)?
It’s just easy to topically find authors, read their Substack which is usually more newsletter style, which in turn can link to their blog
Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ TwoStopBits: http://twostopbits.com Slashdot: https://slashdot.org (Yes, really...) Hackaday: https://hackaday.com
Do you have any web crawling specialists I could speak with? Happy to write the code, just don't want to overload any servers