Please help me find better blogs to read

Have you tried reading books instead? Shaping thoughts typically takes a lot of time, and blogs may not be the best medium to find interesting information.

You may enjoy sites like Minifeed[1], Kagi's SmallWeb[2] and Wiby[3]. These are some neat sites that let you discover random blogs and personal sites and are very fun to sift through and read something interesting.

Since we're self-promoting, feel free to check out my blog too :) https://popcar.bearblog.dev/

[1]: https://minifeed.net/

[2]: https://kagi.com/smallweb

[3]: https://wiby.me/

I'd recommend going to a library or bookstore. Esp one with literary magazines.

Previous thread of HN users' personal blogs [1].

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

It's almost like you're asking for self-promotion, so I'll try. Here's a few entry points:

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.

I'm trying to do less browsing and more intentional reading. RSS works great for this. There is a bit of overwhelm for me in filtering out the right things in a RSS feed. But, generally the work is filtering out posts I don't want, as opposed to filter out the spam and ads I don't want when I'm browsing without intention.

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.

My blog on emacs [1] is perhaps a bit too niche if you dislike emacs? I do write a lot about tree sitter, structured editing and movement in programming languages on it also.

[1] www.masteringemacs.org

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform: https://join-lemmy.org/

Oldschool bloglist: https://webring.xxiivv.com/

There are enormous amount of aggregators who compile blogs and articles across the web. As a person who looks for new things to read, this is how I get my fresh feeds.

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 :)

I'm curious about some of the suggestions people might have.

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.

Myself and a small group of curious souls have been sharing links here for years:

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 collected some of the best essays I read: https://www.jjude.com/best-essays/

I also listed the blogs and newsletters I visit often (OPML available): https://www.jjude.com/consume-list/